I've been trying to take some screen shots while playing Demigod. I hit Print Screen, I go to Paint. I can't paste anything. Any suggestions that don't involve a 3rd party software.
is there a manual for the game? have you read it? if so your anwer is probably in there.
have you tried reading the README file?
I don't play DG but a lot of games will post info like this in a ReadMe file (hence the title) sometimes installed in the games root folder such as C:/program files/stardock games/Demi God. or whatever directory stardock games install to.
as well as some games will take the screen shot AND save it when pressing the print screen button (removing the need to open paint and paste the clipboard), if this is the case the game will usually create a folder for them something like My Documents/My Games/Demi God/Screenshots or similar.
and again if this is the case, the info is usually in the README file.
1. My Documents/My Games/Demigod - has no screen shots, checked prior.
2. I skimmed through the Demigod primary folder in Program Files and I found not screen shot folder.
3. The instruction manual has NOTHING on screen shots.
4. Read the .txt readme, no screen shot information.
5. Read the .pdf manual which was a clone of the instruction booklet.
Now, it's hard to tell if people are being condescending or rude over text so I'll just assume you were sincerely being helpful and not trying to talk down to me by referring to such methods. I thank you for your suggestions but unfortunately they came short. If you've any other ideas, perhaps actual tested solutions, I'd gladly try them out.
That's odd--printscreen+paste works for me. Do you have anything running that might be intercepting Windows's normal screencap function?
At the time. All I had open was Impulse and Demigod. though you've helped me think of something I hadn't considered. I just tried to take a screen shot in normal mode with that method and it's not working. The screen shot problem is on the computer end here. I'm getting my latest GPU driver and I'll edit this post if it's a success.
Once you are in Paint, press Control-V and see if that doesn't bring up your screen shot.
Originally it was not. Upon further investigation, it turns out that when I replaced my case, my system reset my drivers to the default one's Window's finds. I updated my graphic drivers and my screen shot ability is fine now. Thank you Kryo.
that makes absolutly no sense.
how do you figure "swapping" your system components from one case to another set your drivers to windows default. the drivers are installed in the OS on the hard drive...without reinstalling windows or uninstalling a device (such as your video card) in the device manager the OS would keep the same video driver active. unpluging a drive is not enough to get windows to change configuration/registry entries etc....
so my question is, after you got everything swapped into the new case did you get a "new device found" message of windows telling you it found your video card? if not then your video card was not lost/uninstalled from the OS which means the drivers should not have been rolled back to windows default.
unless I'm missing something here... sounds more to me like your graphics drivers simply got corrupt somewhere along the way. file/driver corruption happens more often and easier than most people realize and is responsible for a large portion of computer problems.
maybe you can enlighten me as to how you believe it was 'swapping' cases that caused the driver to be lost/rolled back to windows default? I'm curious, I don't know everything about computers and windows but as I said this makes no sence. so maybe I can learn something here.
Good question. Everytime I've reseated my graphics card, the drivers that were on the system have been reset. It's happened twice already.
And yes I got the new drivers found message. It's happened twice. Once when I swapped my case (I did have to take everything apart.) And once when I was reseating my GPU. It would not let me take screen shots with the Windows found drivers but it worked fine after I manually DLed them through nvidia.
I'd love to believe that but it's happened twice in a 2 day span. Once after the new case, and once after I reseated my card.
I took my whole computer apart. Disconnected everything. Installed the motherboard, processor, heatsink, HDD's, ram, and GPU into the new case. Got a new drivers found message. I don't understand it either but I simply accept it and move on. If you'd like to dwell on the subject. I got another mind boggle for you.
My computer passes QAWin32 and PC-Check System Check hardware diagnostics. if I turn my computer off or reboot, my computer will not post. I'll have press the power button a thousand times and it'll eventually go through. It worked immediately after reseating my GPU (that's how I discovered that the second time) and a few times I had to reapply thermal paste and reseat my heat sink before it would turn on. You figure that one out for me, then I'll love you.
ya that is not normal. It should only be doing that if you seated the video card in a different slot. I have removed and reseated many video cards, unplugged and reconnected many hdds and never seen this happen. Wierd!
ditto on the above, makes me wonder what is causing it.
not POSTing huh? have you tried disabling quick POST in the BIOS to allow the system to run ALL POST tests? if not give it a shot, it might find something.
have you tried clearing the CMOS or flashing the BIOS?
clearing CMOS is easy, your mainboard manual should have directions, most boards have a jumper for it (sometimes labled on the board as CLR CMOS or just plain CMOS) , power off system and turn off or unplug power supply then switch the jumper for 5-10 seconds. will set the bios back to factory defaults and if you have tweeked anything you will have to redo your tweeks.
if no jumper...power off and unplug power supply, then remove the battery for 30 seconds.
you may need to flash the BIOS.
1. backup current bios if possible.... alot of boards today come with dual bios or bios back up options, save the current BIOS to the backup or second bios, some will even allow you to save to a floppy and thus have a utility in the bios to do so and restore from the floppy.
2. search manufac site for BIOS updates and any flashing utility (should either be included in bios zip file or be a separate download in the same area)
3. FOLLOW MANUFACTURER DIRECTIONS EXACTLY for flashing.
it is usually recommened that you print the BIOS flashing directions from the site so you have them to refer to during flashing...DO IT, YOU WILL PROBABLY NOT REMEMBER EVERY STEP EXACTLY AND ONE MISTAKE CAN BE DISASTER.
if not any of this then I would have to say you have some sort of hardware problem that your testing utilities is not catching, really they may not see all problems such as problems that are stopping you from booting, because they are testing a system that is booted, therefore if what ever the problem is happens to be working at the time the test will pass.
perhaps you have a stick of RAM playing hit or miss trying to die, try booting with only one stick at a time until you test every stick, if you get a no boot that stick is bad.
or maybe you have a small crack in your mainboard or on a trace (the copper/gold lines) or another mainboard problem, or have a power connector problem, any of these will cause shorts and stop post/boot
how old is your Power supply and how big is it, what is your system config, you may be having PSU issues.
my daughters computer was acting similar a couple yrs ago (booted when it felt like it), it turned out that the 20 pin power connector was lose/cracked solder and shorting out. holding it down would boot, otherwise it was hit or miss.
are you getting any random crashes?
you may want to take it to a local tech for extensive hardware testing.
Tried that already.
2. search manufac site for BIOS updates and any flashing utility (should either be included in bios zip file or be a separate download in the same area)3. FOLLOW MANUFACTURER DIRECTIONS EXACTLY for flashing.it is usually recommened that you print the BIOS flashing directions from the site so you have them to refer to during flashing...DO IT, YOU WILL PROBABLY NOT REMEMBER EVERY STEP EXACTLY AND ONE MISTAKE CAN BE DISASTER.
I'm hesitant to do anything BIOS related. Trust me. I know how bad of a disaster it cane be. Last time, well, I messed up and I had to build a new computer. It was old and I was due for a new machine anyway but I'm still hesitant.
Did that already, same thing happens. No change.
This is a possibility. I've not seen any damage but it is conceivable.
PSU is a few months. I've not had any power issues.
As I said, I don't see any cracks anywhere.
Nope, unit's tip top when running. As I said, it's only turning it on that I have trouble with. When I first built it, it was fine. Then the issue occurred sporadically, after I switched cases, it occurs more frequently. The computer was put together around 6-8 months ago.
There is a certain irony I appreciate in your advice right here. The joke is mostly on me.
how old is the board?
you might need a new CMOS battery, that can cause power up problems I belive.
have it checked for cracks, and trace cracks/shorts, the 24pin power connector on on the board. sounds suspisious since it started more often since swapping cases. it is esay to crack a board when installing components expecially RAM.
open up your case and push lightly on a few area, like the 24 pin power or any area that RAM or cards are installed, do this while booting and see if there is any difference such as when pushing on the power connector does the problem go away or happen less often, if so you got shorts in that spot.
Motherboard/PSU are 6-8 months old, if that.
I'll try your suggestion out when I get some free time. I just got back from work and I don't want to risk having to wait an hour before my computer will turn back on. As I said previously, when I reapply the heatsink (after cleaning off and reapplying thermal paste) 75% of the time it'll load up immediately.
The problem is not No Power at all. The mobo lights up and every single fan spins including the processor. It's just that nothing posts. I'm more inclined to believe it's the motherboard.
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