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Cyberatron has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

11 Jul @ 9:33pm

Screenshots don't save

since I reset my windows and reinstalled the game few months ago, the in-game photo mode doesn't save my screenshots anymore. I've tried launching the game on both DX11 and 12 and also tried verifying my files but none of these fixed it. if anyone knows a solution please let me know.

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cheshirm

12 Jul @ 12:32am

fire up the game then wondered which ingame screenshot: steam or witcher 3 you have an issue with.

pressed U for steams, took a picture, then the notification lower right popped up.
click on steam view then screenshots then view on disk and there is the picture I just took
in folder
...\steam\userdata\mySteamID\760\remote\292030\screenshots

pressed f12 for witcher 3 screenshot. it appears in folder
Documents\The Witcher 3\screenshots

there are also windows screenshots, nvidia/amd screenshots, gamebar screenshots and many others

Cyberatron has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

12 Jul @ 4:22pm

Originally posted by cheshirm:
fire up the game then wondered which ingame screenshot: steam or witcher 3 you have an issue with.

pressed U for steams, took a picture, then the notification lower right popped up.
click on steam view then screenshots then view on disk and there is the picture I just took
in folder
...\steam\userdata\mySteamID\760\remote\292030\screenshots

pressed f12 for witcher 3 screenshot. it appears in folder
Documents\The Witcher 3\screenshots

there are also windows screenshots, nvidia/amd screenshots, gamebar screenshots and many others

By the in-game photo mode I meant the one that CDPR added themselves with the new gen update.
the photo mode works and it says "screenshot saved" whenever I press the button and yes I know I have to look for them in folder Documents\The Witcher 3\screenshots, but no matter how many photos I take, nothing will be saved in that folder. completely empty.

cheshirm

12 Jul @ 4:35pm

perhaps you have mods? one of them might be screwing things up.

if the game saves correctly and your .settings files are being created, you should have permission to write screenshots to the folder.

does pressing U create the steam screenshots?

Cyberatron has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

12 Jul @ 4:57pm

Originally posted by cheshirm:
perhaps you have mods? one of them might be screwing things up.

if the game saves correctly and your .settings files are being created, you should have permission to write screenshots to the folder.

does pressing U create the steam screenshots?

No I have no mods and yes everything else works just fine.

cheshirm

12 Jul @ 5:14pm

so steam can create screenshots but the game cannot.

maybe delete the screenshots folder in the Documents\The Witcher 3 folder
then run the game and try again.

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. might be an error msg.

maybe contact the devs. they should know which libraries/what mechanism is used to generate screenshots.

game created one this morning for me even after this weeks windows 11 updates and recent nvidia driver update.

Last edited by cheshirm; 12 Jul @ 5:18pm

Cyberatron has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

12 Jul @ 7:05pm

Originally posted by cheshirm:
so steam can create screenshots but the game cannot.

maybe delete the screenshots folder in the Documents\The Witcher 3 folder
then run the game and try again.

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. might be an error msg.

maybe contact the devs. they should know which libraries/what mechanism is used to generate screenshots.

game created one this morning for me even after this weeks windows 11 updates and recent nvidia driver update.

thanks for your help. I will try all these and see if it'll be fixed.