I've search through past posts and check/tried all the suggestions I read. It all stopped working some time late last year. My older screenshots are there but neither key combo is working. Used to use F10 or Alt+F10 but that's not working any longer. I do not have the NVIDIA Experience installed (just the basic drivers) and I can't find any other piece of software that could be interfering. I don't install anything other than games on this PC. Nothing "productive". Just games on this box.
Still can't take a stupid screenshot. Looking for suggestions to try & resolve this
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Are you playing through Steam? If so, it's F12.
Are you using EDHM? If so, that messes up the F keys for screen shots.
You'll have to use the "Print Screen" button and then use either Photoshop or Microsoft Paint and paste the shot into there and save it.
Are you using EDHM? If so, that messes up the F keys for screen shots.
You'll have to use the "Print Screen" button and then use either Photoshop or Microsoft Paint and paste the shot into there and save it.
Greetings,
It's probably a 3rd party app nothing to do with ED binding to the F10 key. I had the problem a year ago but forgot which one it was. MSConfig can turn off startup apps then restart the PC and ED to see if one of those apps is causing the problem.
In windows 10 use MSConfig the System Configuration Tool.
In Windows 7 type MSConfig in the start/run box.
Any recent apps or updates then noticing the F10 key doesn't work in ED?
Any antivirus updates which can block downloads unless you tell them not to.
Are you starting any other apps when running ED that use the F10 key? Not
likely as they shouldn't take effect until you run them.
Added any new extensions to Google Chrome if you are using it? I found one
'Guardio Protection for Google Chrome' that blocked many items on the Frontier
Forum including posting threads.
Nvidia GeForce Experience also binds keys but they can be changed in the app.
Hope this helps.
It's probably a 3rd party app nothing to do with ED binding to the F10 key. I had the problem a year ago but forgot which one it was. MSConfig can turn off startup apps then restart the PC and ED to see if one of those apps is causing the problem.
In windows 10 use MSConfig the System Configuration Tool.
In Windows 7 type MSConfig in the start/run box.
Any recent apps or updates then noticing the F10 key doesn't work in ED?
Any antivirus updates which can block downloads unless you tell them not to.
Are you starting any other apps when running ED that use the F10 key? Not
likely as they shouldn't take effect until you run them.
Added any new extensions to Google Chrome if you are using it? I found one
'Guardio Protection for Google Chrome' that blocked many items on the Frontier
Forum including posting threads.
Nvidia GeForce Experience also binds keys but they can be changed in the app.
Hope this helps.
anti virus permission to write to maybe?...……………... temp disable to see if the cause
for me its f10 to take and storage location is C:\Users\yournamehere\Pictures\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
which is the original fd not linked to steam version of the game and alt F10 for a hi res screenie
the altenative being windows key plus print screen then hit the paste button in windows paint for the image to then save(win 10)
for me its f10 to take and storage location is C:\Users\yournamehere\Pictures\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
which is the original fd not linked to steam version of the game and alt F10 for a hi res screenie
the altenative being windows key plus print screen then hit the paste button in windows paint for the image to then save(win 10)
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Just for the record: I play through Steam and it's always been F10 for me, and Alt+F10 for super hires.
Likewise, I use EDHM and it's never messed up my F keys.
I had the same problem a while back - turned out to be antivirus. I added the EliteDangerous64.exe executable to the list of exceptions in the virus checker and that fixed it.
You re-bounded the screenshot key in ED or another app? I don't believe anyone's ever seen a key bind for that in ED. I even search the bindings file and nothing came up. It's like something that FDev hard-coded.
But EDHM does interfere with the Steam Overlay (mentioned on page 2 of the PDF Manual), therefore F12 will no longer work for taking screenshots.
Thank you all for your tips and suggestions. It took a while but after disabling everything at start and not finding anything, I finally found the problem was with Windows Defender blocking the EliteDangerous executable from modifying the contents of the pictures folder. The best part was that it was not alerting me to any of this and I as I looked through the logs, I also found that it was blocking a bunch of my other games as well from accessing other, various folders.
UGH!! So frustrating but even more so because it was working fine and then all of a sudden, after having had ED installed on this PC for the last 4 years, it NOW decides that ED is a security concern. Really? WTH?
UGH!! So frustrating but even more so because it was working fine and then all of a sudden, after having had ED installed on this PC for the last 4 years, it NOW decides that ED is a security concern. Really? WTH?
glad ya got it sorted in the end I did suspect security software denying write permissions to that location
Updates, it's Microsofts way of encouraging you to upgrade to Windows 11.
I won't be upgrading to Windows 11 any time soon as the motherboard I have has no support for TPM anyway and with the current cost of parts it's unlikely I'll be replacing the motherboard/cpu/ram until those prices drop a lot.
That and it removes the possibility of using unsigned software. MS taking over...