[Stallion Free]

Hopefully someone reads this instead of blindly posting.

• Limits: 2 screenshots per post. If you have more than 2, make more posts or use thumbnails.
• Naming: Always include the name of the game with the screenshots.
• Compression: Don't compress your screens or use a host that compresses them (Steam, Imgur).
• Emulators: Emulator screens are fine. However, you should list the emulator used.
• Stretching: Do not post stretched screenshots (4:3 to 16:9 for example).
• Spoilers: Please do not post spoiler screenshots from recently released games.
• Thinking: Think before you post. Is the screenshot really worth posting?

• Fraps: DON'T TAKE JPEGS WITH THIS. The free version takes .bmps/.pngs and those should be the initial format you take screens in as it is lossless.
• Irfanview/Photoshop: Use one of these to convert to jpeg at 100% quality, crop out black bars or resize pictures.
• Nvidia Inspector: Program for Nvidia cards for fine tweaking AA/AF and other graphical settings for games.
• Radeon Pro: Program for ATI cards for fine tweaking AA/AF and other graphical settings for games.

• Nvidia Inspector: This guide covers how to force AA externally and the basics of using the program.
• Radeon Pro: Would someone like to do a similar guide?
• SGSSAA: This guide covers how to implement Sparse Grid Super Sampling, courtesy of BoobPhysics101.

• Picpar: Brought to you by none other than X3sphere, a simple and efficient image host.
• Abload: Easy to use, doesn't compress jpegs further, auto-converts bmps to png nicely.
• Minus: Great interface, love way to share albums of screens.
• Skydrive: 25 gb of storage, easy to set up folders, slideshows, no picture size limit.
• Flickr: Good stuff if you are a paid user. Otherwise you are stuck with some limitations and shouldn't really use it.

Here are some great looking games from 2011. Click for full-size. Hopefully 2012 is even better!

Trine


Battlefield 3


Dirt 3


Assassin's Creed: Revelations

[Snuggler]

yay new thread, but you should have said NO STEAM SCREENSHOTS in the title as well

[Weenerz]

So bossy.

[Flunkie]

yay new thread, but you should have said NO STEAM SCREENSHOTS in the title as well

I wish Steam would just fix this and stop being such prudes.

[Stallion Free]

Peeps who posted on the last page of the old thread should feel free to repost their pics for maximum exposure.

[volturnus]

Abload is such an awesome host, I wonder how long it will stay that way..

[Ysiadmihi]

yay new thread, but you should have said NO STEAM SCREENSHOTS in the title as well

What's the problem with Steam screenshots?

[Moaradin]

What's the problem with Steam screenshots?

Don't they compress them like crazy?

[XOMTOR]

What about Google/Picasa web albums? Many of us have Google accounts so uploading there is convenient. Any reason not to use it for pic hosting?

[Sober]

Pointless tip: If you are like me and your computer explodes or your browser freezes while loading a page of large screenshots (especially at 100ppp), you might want to hit Esc and then just load each post individually.

[ViewtifulJC]

what's wrong with imgur again?

[Stallion Free]

What about Google/Picasa web albums? Many of us have Google accounts so uploading there is convenient. Any reason not to use it for pic hosting?

Minus is superior. I suggest checking it out.

[WoodenLung]

what's wrong with imgur again?

Bad compression.


Anyway Saints Row 3 :

[Angelus Errare]

[NBtoaster]

[Mechazawa]

Lost Planet 2

[alr1ght]

Bastion

what's wrong with imgur again?

this is what it did to my first pic. compressed to hell.
http://i.imgur.com/k5odK.jpg

[Sinatar]

Hall of shame from the 2011 thread:



Witcher 2 screenshot for good measure.

[WoodenLung]

Damn you Btoaster, I was just about to the be the jerk posting the first witcher 2 screens.

[scitek]

The last game I played in '11 and first in '12. And I finally got triple buffering working. I think it was the Steam overlay causing it not to work.

[Vulcano's assistant]

Skyrim with a WIP config for ENB series.

[jim-jam bongs]

Yay a new thread

[Sax Russel]

Starting the new year off right with some Mirror's Edge!

[Sax Russel]

[jediyoshi]

Sonic Generations

[Sinatar]

[Sinatar]

[Valru]

[legacyzero]

Great first page. Glad to be a part of it.

[fin]

Click for fullsize

[Sethos]

I have an Imgur Pro account, is that worthy?

[scitek]

[scitek]

[Crunched]

Looks like fin is ignoring the rules already.

I will repost my arkham city shots from the last thread when I sober up. Happy New Year everyone by the way.

Mafia II looks great above. I would've bought it via the holiday Steam sale if my mobo's PCI E slots were all working and I could use PhysX. Sinc, they're not I will have to wait until I score an nvidia card or get a motherboard that actually works properly.

[Blizzard]

How about resizing/downsampling screenshots to make them look better (bullshots) -- can we at least have a rule to request people mention it if they use downsampling in an image editor? Of course if the game plays with built-in downsampling then that's different.

[Sethos]

How about resizing/downsampling screenshots to make them look better (bullshots) -- can we at least have a rule to request people mention it if they use downsampling in an image editor? Of course if the game plays with built-in downsampling then that's different.

I'd actually like that, people have to mention when they did something to it. I see it way too often that people downsample and then someone comes along in complete awe of the IQ, which is pretty much on false grounds.

[scitek]

Fine by me.

[lastplayed]

Skyrim

[Brettison]

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes

[Dennis]

How about resizing/downsampling screenshots to make them look better (bullshots) -- can we at least have a rule to request people mention it if they use downsampling in an image editor? Of course if the game plays with built-in downsampling then that's different.

This is a most blantant personal attack!

[Salacious Crumb]

'sif downsample

[L0st Id3ntity]

That DoF should be an industry standard.

[Isomac]

Star Wars: The Old Republic

[sixteen-bit]

Imgur doesn't compress .png uploads do they?

[EatChildren]

Another thread, another year of bitching from myself at the impossible magic IQ everyone achieves in their screenshots that I cannot, for the life of me, attain.

[Kyaw]

Imgur doesn't compress .png uploads do they?

They compress everything AFAIK unless you have a Pro account.

Also it would be nice to have AA and Downsampling guides in the OP to achieve insane IQ.

[NBtoaster]

Are artistic shots and shots with unplayable settings allowed this year? No rules about them this time..

[Confidence Man]

Skyrim ENB

[EuropeOG]

Just got BF3. Looks amazing, makes me wonder why I don't get such smooth framerates on Crysis 1? I think it may be my processor or my RAM (do loading times take so long in BF3 for everyone else?) bottlenecking it, but in Crysis I get like 22 - 25fps during combat... on BF3 I get about 40fps throughout multoplayer, the lowest was 35fps.

Anyway, I think I had the colour correction injector already installed when I took these, and not everything is maxed:

[IMG]http://i41.************/15ocf1g.png[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i42.************/jzh1jq.png[/IMG]

Fuck off I didn't use imgur.

[XOMTOR]

Another thread, another year of bitching from myself at the impossible magic IQ everyone achieves in their screenshots that I cannot, for the life of me, attain.

I hear ya. It would be nice if people would post their settings along with their screens, like if they're using an FXAA/SMAA injector, mods, ini/autoexec tweaks etc. That way the thread could be educational as well as good looking.