Bug – weird bug in save game image

Asthner

Current behaviour: here’s a picture of what I’ve found after starting BGEE to continue my playthrough: http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8681/bgeesavebug.jpg
The „Menvin” save was the save I’ve made while quitting the game last time (or just before that and I didn’t save the game while quitting; a difference of several seconds of gameplay at most).
The „Test” save is a save made immediately after loading the „Menvin” save. The game seems to work just fine and it save without problems too.

Bonus question: what’s up with screenshot taking? I had to go all the way to installing additional software to capture a screenshot of the game… The standard method just shows the main super-menu…

Expected behaviour: saves that don’t give a heart attack by suggesting that they’re damaged. Also: not obscuring screenshots.

Avenger_teambg

Whoa, interesting image. I would be curious how to reproduce this.
And i'm sure it will puzzle @ScottBrooks too

Avenger_teambg

Alt-print screen then pasting into mspaint works for me all the time.

Humanoid_Taifun

You can use [Alt][Print] for screenshots if you are not in full-screen mode.
Even if you are in full-screen mode, BGEE will save any screenshots you make to:
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\ScrnShot

Asthner

@Avenger_teambg: I’ve did some further testing on the screenshot thing. When I start the game, click through to the load screen, printscr and alt-tab (which doesn’t really work, btw – the game stays on top, I just get to move my mouse cursor to the second display – I have a two-monitor setup) to paste the shot, then I get just a screenshot of the super-menu (for choosing between the Tutorial, the Black Pits and the regular BG game). However, when I click back to the game and take another screenshot, then paste it – I end up with a genuine screen shot of my actual display, as originally intended.

Edited to add:
@Humanoid_Taifun: thanks

Asthner

@Avenger_teambg I can confirm that I’m able to reproduce the bug. I’ve just overwritten the „Test” savegame from the image above while quitting the game and the result was the same as in the „Menvin” save. Normal saving works fine. And the corrupted saves also seem to be ok besides their bugged appearance in the window.

Avenger_teambg

I meant using alt-print not alt-tab print
After alt-print, you can use ctrl-v in a graphics program, like microsoft paint.
I do this, because mspaint can save the image in png format, which is much smaller, and friendlier for forum attachments.

Asthner

I think we misunderstood each other. I’ll elaborate a bit and rephrase myself.

For standard screenshots I just use the Print Screen keyboard button. Those I paste into GIMP, where I compress them into JPG or PNG (depending on the quality I intend to achieve – f.e. the screenshot in this topis was meant as only reference material, thus I chose JPG) with a RIOT plugin.
However, this time the standard method produced not a screenshot of my game (+ my second display, but that I always cut out with no problems in editing), but of the super-menu (Tutorial/Black Pits/BG). Semi alt-tabbing out (more on that in a moment) + clicking back to the game allowed me however to produce a proper screenshot this time.

As for alt-tabbing, at the moment I’m more or less unable to perform this action: the game stubbornly stays on top. All that alt-tab does for me is to allow switching of focus, so I can move my mouse to my second screen. I prefer to keep my browser on my main display though, so in order to test something in the game and then go to the forum to write about the results, I have to close the whole game. Or move my browser to the second window, which I hate to do. :P I have’t posted this as a bug, cause I keep forgetting to check whether something like this has already been posted. :P

Avenger_teambg

Yeah, alt-tab stuff is reported in the live release and also was reported in beta.
I never used the built-in screenshot feature, just alt-printscreen.

Anyway, tested simple printscreen now, and it works too both in windowed mode and full screen.

Asthner

I’ve experimented a bit and got interesting results. Turns out, video capturing software behaves the same as was the case with screenshots. Here’s the result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyljuHwGNt8

0:00 Game launcher started. (The background is an earlier screenshot attempt, disregard it.)
0:03 Super-menu started
0:07 Main Baldur"s Gate campaign loaded. What I see is the actual game. What is being captured on the video is different though. Screenshots behave the same.
0:12 I alt-tab away and then click back into the game. Screen and video capturing now will work as it should.
0:22 I capture a screen shot (and paste it off-screen) just to illustrate that it indeed does work now. Were it not for the alt-tab trick all I'd be able to get this way would be the super-menu, as seen earlier.

(Oh, and sorry for the mess on the desktop. ;p)