Why can't I print screen the game?!

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I've had this problem repeatedly with Windows 8 where the game will not print screen, I get what's open behind the game instead. When I print screen emulators they're fine, games are not

Or I get something several minutes behind what's actually happened

 

[MarkW]

Does that game have a name?

 

[The Day Dreamer]

Try Fraps?

 

[unplanned bacon]

Any game, latest offender is GTAV

Try Fraps?

I forgot I had this!

 

[-HH-]

Fullscreen games cannot be screen shot. I'd suggest using fraps or playing in fullscreen windowed. Alternatively if you're playing via steam you can use F12 which will screenshot anything on screen. Hope I helped!

 

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Fullscreen games cannot be screen shot. I'd suggest using fraps or playing in fullscreen windowed. Alternatively if you're playing via steam you can use F12 which will screenshot anything on screen. Hope I helped!

I swear I used to be able to, I print screened Far Cry 3 this way when I built my computer (unless I used Fraps then too) over a year ago

 

[-HH-]

it is because the game is using the video-adapter’s hardware overlay [1] [2][3] (not to be confused with software overlays like those of Steam, Fraps, etc.) This is a special buffer (surface for DirectX games) that software can write to which provides hardware acceleration. By nature, it is just a simple (usually near-black) rectangle that the video-adapter fills in with the output image in hardware. As a result, Windows does not have access to the rendered image, and so its PrtScr handler cannot capture it. This is the same for video-players that use hardware acceleration.

Source: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/19203/how-do-i-take-screenshots-of-fullscreen-games-on-a-windows-7-pc

 

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Just a quick question, trying to figure out where to put my temperature probe (NZXT Sentry 3). My fan is already mounted (Hyper 212 Evo) and I moved the probe to the metal block that contacts the CPU, but I'm still getting a reading 10 degrees plus out from the board's readout when gaming. It's climbing slowly, but it's still wildly inaccurate. Should I place it on the copper piping itself (really don't want to remove the cooler and have to reapply thermal paste)?

My temps are no higher/lower than before, but inaccurate reading from the Sentry