in reply to Re: Capture opengl screen
in thread Capture opengl screen

well i tried both solutions thank you very much ... but i keep on getting a black screen. I tried image magick bevor. I am using activestate perl under windows and i would be really happy if anybody has any solution to create screenshots of full screen directx games / applications. I tried many ways but i keep on getting black screens thanks

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Re^2: Capture opengl screen
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 29, 2008 at 19:35 UTC

    Err - DirectX is quite different from OpenGL.

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      so itīs not possible ? I thought grabing the front/back buffer is possible in OpenGL and DirectX
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        Yes. But you can only capture the OpenGL screen with OpenGL and the DirectX screen using DirectX. They do similar things but are different.

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