Print screen giving black screen in video games

Nanis23

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I've got AMD Radeon 7870 HD video card,and installed the 13.6 beta driver version
I noticed that when I do print screen in a video game,then I do "paste" it turns out it printed a black screen or my desktop
Print screen works fine if I set the games to windowed mode,but won't work at all on full screen
I tried updating to the latest beta version of 13.8,same issue

Is it faulty video card problem or just a setting I need to change?
I tried it in about 8 games,both new and old

Thanks!
 
Solution
Print screen is meant for windows, not capturing ingame or video footage. Use fraps to take screenshots, or a lot of games have an ingame key. It has nothing to do with your video card.

cars12345

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Don't worry, almost all games do this.
You will need to check the game's manual for the screenshot key(usually F10,F12). This will save the screenshot in a location such as 'My Documents', etc.

If you would like to, post the game's names, and I can look it up for you.
 

Warsam71

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Agreed. Try FRAPS first and see how it goes. In fact, I've been using FRAPS for all my games and never had an issue. It saves your screenshots in the FRAPS/Screenshots folder, and to grab screenshots all you have to do is press F10 (the default setting) - a lot easier than Print-Screen, then paste using Paint...