Screendumps

Dirk Cutlass · Post by **Dirk Cutlass** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:21 am

Screendumps save the screen as a tga file.

For some reason I can no loger read these - I used to be able to read and edit this files using my standard Windows XP supplied utilities. But no longer !

What's happened?
1) HotU change - has this changed the file format?
2) I installed drivers for a digitial camera - with associated picture viewing software, etc. Has this somehow removed the ability to display tga ?

I looked on the web, and saw that I can download software (e.g. XnView) to see these files. But, I don't really want to - and it used to work fine for me. So what's happened?

Any ideas?

Sindol · Post by **Sindol** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:31 am

Plenty ideas here: viewtopic.php?t=28397

Scurvy_Platypus · Post by **Scurvy_Platypus** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 2:06 pm

Congratulations Dirk, you're one of the few posts I'm responding to these days

Sounds like your picture viewing software hijacked the file associations. While I would reccomend IrfanView, if you want to stay with your default Windows program, try this:

1. Make sure that whatever program you want to use to open the screencaptures is actually capable of viewing .tga files.

2. Right-click on a NWN screenshot.

3. Select Open With, and then Choose Program.

4. Select the program. You should also have a checkbox that says Always use this program to open these files. Check the tickbox.

5. Hope you haven't gotten bad information from a diseased monotreme.

Slade_brimstone · Post by **Slade_brimstone** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 3:09 pm

for some weird and strange fucked up reason i can view TGA files with windows media player

dont know why or how tho..

guessing from on of those damn codecs i got

Dirk Cutlass · Post by **Dirk Cutlass** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:32 pm

Scurvy_Platypus wrote:5. Hope you haven't gotten bad information from a diseased monotreme.

That seemed to do it. Thanks. And don't worry, keeping taking the Vitamin C and all will be well.