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crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:52 amby flyflyflyaway
Hey All!
I was just wondering how you take such crisp screenshots? I know its its the display settings of FS but I'm not sure where. See my signature for specs...
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:55 amby ATI_7500
Max out all FS settings, and enable Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic FIltering in your graphics card settings.
Your PC seems to be a pre-assembled one. Insane CPU, bad graphics card.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:58 amby flyflyflyaway
Your PC seems to be a pre-assembled one. Insane CPU, bad graphics card.
Actually not, built it about 2 months ago...
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:48 amby ATI_7500
Oh. Well, then you should've invested a bit more into a better graphics card. But as long as you stick to FS, it should be good enough.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:29 pmby Gixer
9800pro woulda been nice in it!
6600GT if your looking for a better card now. The FX5*** range were pretty bad to be honest. The ATI cards were superior that year, expecially ATI's image quality.
You may get good screenies from that g/card by maxxing everything and turning on AA and AF in your Display properties via the control panel, but I doubt the sim will fly to well at busier airports.
Its only the g/card that really needs updating in that system though.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:08 pmby chomp_rock
Hold your horses! It isn't just your system specs that affect your screenshots, on my old P4 2.0GHz system with a GeForce FX5200 I could get VERY clear screenshots until I resized them.
Flyflyflyaway, your system specs are fine, MOF they are very good. Poor screenshot quality can be due to a the way you resize them. Until I got Adobe Photoshop 7 yesterday and started using it all of my screenshots were blurry, pixelated and off-colour after I resized them (thus why I hardly ever posted any). I don't know of any good freeware resizers but I'm sure someone on these boards does.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:16 pmby dakota-flyer
Irfanview (freewware) was recommended to me a while ago. It has worked very well so far.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:58 pmby flyflyflyaway
[quote]Irfanview (freewware) was recommended to me a while ago.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:52 pmby RichieB16
One thing I do to take crisp screenshots is I don't resize them. I keep FS2004 at 800x600x32 resolution and crank the sliders up a little higher. I feel that the drop in resolution is gained back (at least somewhat) with higher settings-and, I don't need to worry about resizing them so there's no problem with losing quality there.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:14 amby jordonj
PixResizer does a good job of resizing without loss of quality...
Re: crisp screenshots
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:45 amby flyflyflyaway
PixResizer does a good job of resizing without loss of quality...
Is that freeware?
Re: crisp screenshots
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:53 pmby ATI_7500
Affirmative.
Re: crisp screenshots
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:00 pmby jordonj
Dat it is mon!
Just do a search on google for it! I like it because it can resize by the folder (do several images at one time).
Re: crisp screenshots
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:18 pmby flyflyflyaway
Ill check it out
Re: crisp screenshots
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:25 pmby C
Irfanview gets my vote... easy
