Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General How do I make a screenshot in BG3

I'm sure it's something simple, but I cannot figure out how to do it.

Help, please!

Do you have a "Print Screen" key on your keyboard? Press that. Then go to any Paint program or image sharing website and paste.

Are you playing through Steam? If so, Steam has a built in screencap function and the key is F12.

Well the steam thing seems to work, but how in the heck do I get close-ups?

As far as I know, the Print Screen doesn't seem to work, but I'll play with it more.

Thank you so much!

You can take close-ups by screenshotting when youre in a dialogue or a cutscene!

Print Screen works, just have the window focused, at least in windowed full screen mode (fake full screen I think is named in this game options) because that mode works best with my FreeSync and frequent alt+tab on Windows 10. Then paste into an image editor. This just for a test.

For frequent use, I'm using GShade, which is "GShade is a highly modified ReShade fork & package with a selectively network-unlocked depth buffer and numerous improvements."
https://github.com/Mortalitas/GShade
get there, works fine with BG3 in Dx11 mode, haven't tested Vulkan, but GShade has Vulkan mode as well, just set that when installing.
You don't have to use any other function, just go into GShade settings and set a screnshot key (I'm using F11 for GShade settings and F12 for Screenshot, and specify where to place the screnshots, otherwise has defaults already set, use those if the the game doesn't already using those)
Regular ReShade should also work, I just already have GShade because some online games dosn't work with Regular ReShade and this is optimized for those cases.

I have the latest Fraps (overlay based image and video capture) and doesn't work with BG3, can capture only the BG3 launcher.

I'm just writing these for anyone looking after how to screenshot BG3 in future, since OP solved it already.

I'm using only 2 sharpen filters with very low adjustment values: AdaptiveSharpen.fx & Clarity.fx, and a very slight color adjustments Tonemap.fx because BG3 is very well done, and don't need more. Even has TAA antialiasing implemented and works great.
Of course no built-in screenshot function, that could be engine limitation maybe.

If you don't have any other way, GShade is great because you can uncheck everything and use just the screenshot function, the optional show FPS and clock, with very close to 0 performance impact.
Oh and 0 crash and 0 bugs so far -- single player mode only, after 20+ hours.

Bump?

Just wanted to note that even tho F12 is working ... i usualy dont remember that thing and im just pressing Screenshot ... it would be really fine, if game would create screenshots somewhere, since this function is with us few decades by now, i would expect it to work.
Yet i dont even have any screenshot folder in instalation files, nor in my documents in Larian Games file. o_O

I don't think I saw anyone mention this one so add it.
Hit the Windows Key(bottom left between ctrl & alt) + Print Screen key. The screen will dim for a sec letting you know it worked and automatically places the picture in a Screenshot folder inside your Pictures folder.

That is good advice ... thans for it.
But to be completely honest, i dont see much difference from F12, its just another alternative ... :-/

I would just like to use standard way.
Hope its not too much to ask. :-/

not working properly when HDR Mode is activated

Using the Print Screen key saves a .png file to \Baldur's Gate 3\bin

Didn't think anyone still used Gshade after the whole drama thing went down. Was a BIG HUGE FFXIV drama over it, and the people that run it.. Everyone playing that game went to ReShade, which didn't require you to update it every five minutes because the creator got so pissed off at a kid that they inserted malware to the program that'd force shut down your PC if you did something specific that they didn't like.

Reshade works fine with BG3 and every other game I used it on.

Sounds more like you are trying to hawk GShade.

With Gshade's history and reputation now it needs all the hawking it can get.

Jebus.

But I just use the default Steam hotkey.