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Problem getting screencap with Jing

September 19, 2009 2:34:59 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Whenever I try to take a cap with Jing within Elemental, the game screen just turns black when the region-selector interface shows up.  Outside of Elemental it works fine though.  I'm running Win7 RC x64.

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Reply #1 September 19, 2009 2:41:12 PM
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I had no problem using it in Elemental on Vista.

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Reply #2 September 19, 2009 3:00:04 PM
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Apparently it doesn't work in fullscreen mode.  Trying to figure out how to get it to switch back to windowed mode right now...

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Reply #3 September 19, 2009 3:05:23 PM
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I had the exact same problem with Jing.

 

Start Elemental, go to Options->Video.  Uncheck "Use fullscreen".  I also recommend configuring the Jing preferences to set a Capture Hotkey.

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Reply #4 September 19, 2009 3:08:54 PM
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Yeah, unchecking fullscreen doesn't seem to fix it...  i unchecked it and started a game... it didn't change..  so i exited the game and restarted...  still starts in fullscreen...   went back to settings and fullscreen is still unchecked...  looks like a bug..

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Reply #5 September 19, 2009 3:10:49 PM
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If you can't get jing to work the Win7 snipping tool is actually pretty decent.  If it had a text annotation ability it would be roughly equal in annotation features.  It doesn't have the screencast integration of jing though, which is extremely useful.

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Reply #6 September 19, 2009 3:22:31 PM
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I should note that I'm running in windowed mode with the resolution set to less than my desktop resolution.

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Reply #7 September 19, 2009 3:26:05 PM
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Yeah, that was my problem.  The res was same as my desktop, so it looked fullscreen.  Couldn't move the window or resize it.  Changed the resolution and it displays fine now.  I guess that should be considered a bug.  I don't remember reading that one though.  Was it already reported?

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Reply #8 September 19, 2009 3:43:02 PM
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Way back in the GC2 beta days, they had similar problems with alt-tab crashing the game.  Windowed mode worked a lot better, and setting the window resolution equal to the desktop size - to get the effect of full screen but avoid the alt-tab problems - kind of got recommended as the best way to play.  I've been away from Stardock betas since then, so I don't know their history, but it might be that for Elemental it's deliberately behaving this way.

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