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Unlock Print Screen (PRTSCN) button
There is a setting in the INI file:
bAllowScreenShot=0

change to:
bAllowScreenShot=1

Also, two related items for the screenshots:
iScreenShotIndex=0
SScreenShotBaseName=Oblivion

There are two INIs, one in the game folder called "Oblivion_default.ini", this is the one it uses to generate the REAL one....
My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini

Edit the first one if you want to default to having screenshots on by default for all users. The settings it uses at runtime are the ones from My Documents folder.

After you mod the INI file, you can press PRTSCN button and Oblivion will write a BMP file to your game folder.
 
This is a great feature and completely necessary when playing a game of this wonder and beauty! I think I posted it in a screenshots thread, but its good to have the visibility in its own thread. :cheers:
 
this does not work for me....when I hit printscreen the game doesnt even freeze up for one second, nor are any bmp's showing up anywhere. I cahnged bAllowScreenShot to 1, changed SScreenShotBaseName to Oblivion (index was already 0)....Any ideas?
 
Vigilante said:
this does not work for me....when I hit printscreen the game doesnt even freeze up for one second, nor are any bmp's showing up anywhere. I cahnged bAllowScreenShot to 1, changed SScreenShotBaseName to Oblivion (index was already 0)....Any ideas?
Was it the correct .ini file? It's this one (My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini) not the other one, so change the other one back if you messed with it.

That's all I can think of. It worked like magic fo rme. :)
 
Vigilante said:
this does not work for me....when I hit printscreen the game doesnt even freeze up for one second, nor are any bmp's showing up anywhere. I cahnged bAllowScreenShot to 1, changed SScreenShotBaseName to Oblivion (index was already 0)....Any ideas?
did you change it in both places like it says?
main directory and my documents?
thats what worked for me :smoking:
 
Cool, works like a charm now.

Thanks

:E
 
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