PC games can run at multiple resolutions, so it's best to find the native resolution which involves no scaling or stretching. If the game saves pictures in a lossy format like JPG, then use one of the techniques mentioned above. Be sure to read your game's instruction manual (if any) for more info.

Built-in screenshots - Many games have built-in hotkeys that save screenshots, which may be in various lossless formats.

In Macs, these go in ~/Library/Preferences/capture/. In Windows systems, these will be placed in the capture folder.

DOSBox - Press Ctrl+F5 while in a game to save a screenshot in PNG format.

The program does not normally work with full-screen games. 'Foreground Window' works best with windowed games that let you Alt-Tab out of them. You can choose between one of several capture modes, and whether to copy the capture to the clipboard, to the Irfanview window, or save it to a file.

Irfanview - Open the program and press C.

Snipping Tool - A glorified Print Screen application, built into Windows Vista and newer.

Note that even this fallback can fail, as in the case of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.

The specific rules vary between operating systems (and in the case of Linux, desktop environments).

Print Screen - If all else fails, just do a simple print screen (press the PrtScrn key, usually found on the upper corners of full-size keyboards) and save the result as a PNG in an image editor.

As FRAPS does not indicate which program it will capture, it is recommended that you only keep one game/emulator open at a time.

FRAPS - First go into the FRAPS window, then go in the 'Screenshots' Tab, and set the 'Image Format' to PNG, select an output folder, then go into a 3D accelerated game.

Also note that the Steam overlay ('Steam Community In-Game') must be running to grab screenshots, and that it is not compatible with older, software-rendered games. Instead, go to the folder you set up and grab the lossless PNG screenshots from there. Take screenshots with F12 or whatever hotkey you have set, but do NOT use the 'SHOW ON DISK' button in the screenshot manager to get your screenshots.

Steam games - Go to Settings > In-Game, check the 'Save an uncompressed copy outside Steam' option and click the 'SELECT EXTERNAL SCREENSHOTS FOLDER' button to set where you want screenshots to be saved.

8.2 Neo Geo Pocket/Neo Geo Pocket Color.

7.1 TurboGrafx-16 / TurboGrafx-CD / SuperGrafx.

4.7 Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Super Game Boy.

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