Simviation Forum - FSX freezes when capturing a screenshot

Jan 31^st, 2010 at 9:09am

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Hey all,
this doesn't always happen, but sometimes my FSX freezes when I press the 'V' key (screenshot capture). To resume flying, I have to alt+tab to the desktop and then back in to the game.
It can be quite annoying when taking lots of screenies, so I've wandered if anyone has any solution for this.

I can't seem to find any pattern for when it freezes or not.

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Reply #1 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 12:34pm

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I haven't had any hard freezes like that, but I use "Snapshot", and the sim will freeze for half a second or so, but it's never locked up.

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Reply #2 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 2:18pm

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Frequent Flyer wrote on Jan 31^st, 2010 at 9:09am:

Hey all,
this doesn't always happen, but sometimes my FSX freezes when I press the 'V' key (screenshot capture). To resume flying, I have to alt+tab to the desktop and then back in to the game.
It can be quite annoying when taking lots of screenies, so I've wandered if anyone has any solution for this.

I can't seem to find any pattern for when it freezes or not.

Thanks,
Frequent Flyer

This is just a suggestion. Instead of hitting the V key on the fly why don't you hit the P key "pause" when you see a scene that you might want to get a screen-shot of. That way you can play around with different angles. Zoom in or out and a number of other things then hit the V key. For me it makes for better screen-shots.

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Reply #3 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 2:26pm

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Bob70 wrote on Jan 31^st, 2010 at 2:18pm:

Frequent Flyer wrote on Jan 31^st, 2010 at 9:09am:

Hey all,
this doesn't always happen, but sometimes my FSX freezes when I press the 'V' key (screenshot capture). To resume flying, I have to alt+tab to the desktop and then back in to the game.
It can be quite annoying when taking lots of screenies, so I've wandered if anyone has any solution for this.

I can't seem to find any pattern for when it freezes or not.

Thanks,
Frequent Flyer

This is just a suggestion. Instead of hitting the V key on the fly why don't you hit the P key "pause" when you see a scene that you might want to get a screen-shot of. That way you can play around with different angles. Zoom in or out and a number of other things then hit the V key. For me it makes for better screen-shots.

Bob

I'm sorry, I probably didn't explain myself well enough.
I pause the sim, get the view I want, and then press V.
Sometimes the sim just freezes - it can't be un-paused.

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Reply #4 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 5:54pm

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i don't have any solution to your problem, just a question. you say there is no pattern, but could it be happening in hard on CPU addon sceneries?

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Reply #5 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 6:46pm

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It's a problem with the drivers I think.
For example, I have this freezing problem when I try to swith from full screen to windowed mode.
Same if I simply want to minimize the sim to go back to Windows: when I click on FSX in the taskbar, the sim would not come back to life... until I try it again two-three times... (same with window<->full screen)

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Reply #6 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 2:15am

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@jlab58, I'm not quite sure. I run my FSX on the highest settings my computer can handle, though.

@Daube, I take there is no solution for this? Undecided

Thanks all for your help

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Reply #7 - Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 9:45pm

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Frequent Flyer wrote on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 2:15am:

@jlab58, I'm not quite sure. I run my FSX on the highest settings my computer can handle, though.

@Daube, I take there is no solution for this? Undecided

Thanks all for your help

You might try "Snapshot".

http://www.simviation.com/fsxutilities1.htm

It's at the bottom of the page.

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Reply #8 - Feb 16^th, 2010 at 10:19pm

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I recommend "Snapper" you use print screen to take your screen-shots. If you are interested 'google' snapper to find it.

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