An admittedly sophmoric question.

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by c13Garrison

Mm, meaning a question that I feel I should have been able to resolve myself.

And Ctl-f11 just locked and crashed my game, so if that's how you do it I guess I'll be doing without screenies... -.-

You probably installed the game in the default location in Program Files. You probably also have either Vista, 7 or Windows 8. These OS-es protect your system if a program is trying to create or change files in this folderstructure. When you make a screendump SH4 makes a file in there. And the OS tries to prompt a UAC screen asking for permission. However, since the game is fullscreen or doesn't expect this to happen, it pukes and crashes. Since no permission is granted, the OS denies making the file so you'll never find the screen dump in there.

There are solutions of disabling UAC, or explicitly start the game as an administrator account. But that opens up security holes for nasty stuff intruding in your system. The easiest way, and a "solve this once and for all", is to select a different install folder for the game upon installation. (like C:\games\SilentHunter4) Then you can mod the game and make screen dumps to your hearts content.

[c13Garrison]

Thanks for the insight Pisces, now I know exactly why that happened.

I'll consider the Admin solution, it sounds most practical. A re-install introduces too many variables for my liking, and I'll probably have to do it sometime anyway when the soup gets too thick.