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I purchased Saluda Grade and the Southern Railway retro pack last night. For whatever reason, taking a screenshot results in an empty file. I'm able to take screenshots from other routes, so this is not an overall problem with my installation. Also, I've seen screenshots posted of the Saluda route, so perhaps it's not a widespread problem in the community. Could it be related to the retro pack? Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks for purchasing Saluda and the Southern Retro Pack. Much appreciated. This is the first such report on the screenshot issue. Did you purchase the bundle?

mikeadams2k wrote:I purchased Saluda Grade and the Southern Railway retro pack last night. For whatever reason, taking a screenshot results in an empty file. I'm able to take screenshots from other routes, so this is not an overall problem with my installation. Also, I've seen screenshots posted of the Saluda route, so perhaps it's not a widespread problem in the community. Could it be related to the retro pack? Anyone else having this problem?

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How are you taking your screenshots? There is more than one way to do this. In-game by pressing the camera icon on the F4 HUD. Using the PRINT SCRN key on your keyboard, it doesn't auto-save, so you have to use a drawing program like Paint to save it. You can also use the Windows built-in screen capture program by pressing the Windows Logo key + ALT + G.

I have only been taking mine with the camera icon on the HUD but it's working fine here and saving them in the usual spot.

Thanks for the quick replys!
To ElphabaWS - You're welcome! It's a great route! I didn't purchase the bundle, but purchased them seperately.
To Trev123 and Buzz - Using the camera icon on the HUD is where it's failing. I'm able to take them with the printscrn function or the Shift-Win-S key combination, so it's not really a big issue. But, it would be nice to have the camera icon work.
Thanks again!

Isn't there a key mapped to this function? F12 or something.

Thank you Chacal! Yes, the F12 key will also take a screenshot.

What I've discovered is:

Using the HUD camera icon, when I take a screenshot of any route, other than Saluda, images are placed in both the windows/pictures folder (my choice in Steam settings) and the Steam screenshot folder. (D:\Steam\userdata\60808631\760\remote\24010\screenshots - in my case.) Taking a screenshot in the Saluda route, puts a 0 byte file in the windows\pictures folder and the actual screenshot in the Steam screenshots folder.

Using F12, images are also placed placed in the Steam screenshots folder and the windows\pictures folders, and this works with all routes, Saluda included.

I was in the habit of using the HUD camera icon and looking for screenshots in the windows\pictures folder and had forgotten about the Steam..\screenshots folder. So, I was getting screenshots all along, but not in the place I was expecting. However, there still seems to be a problem with the Saluda route (possibly just on my system) since I'm getting the 0 byte files using the camera icon. In the end, it's no big deal.

Just create shortcut to that folder and place it on your desktop. Easy access.

Thanks! I did just that.