- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You have to add -screenshot to your shortcut. Right-click on your Halo icon shortcut (probably on your desktop?) and then select Properties. Click on the Shortcut tab at the top, and then in the field next to "Target:" add -screenshot (including the hyphen) after the quotes, like this: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -screenshot
That will enable the game to take screenshots. When you're in a game, press the Print Screen button on your keyboard (to the right of F12) and it will save the screenshot to your Screenshots folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\screenshots) in the Targa format (.tga). When you're done playing, you can go to the screenshots folder and drag the files somewhere else to save them and edit them or whatever you want to do. I think it will let you save up to 8 screenshots at a time in the screenshots folder. So it's good to periodically drag the ones you want to keep somewhere else on your hard drive.
If you don't enable the -screenshot flag in your shortcuts, pressing Print Screen will save the screenshot to the clipboard, so you'll have to Alt-Tab out of Halo and paste the screenshot into MS Paint or Photoshop or something. Kind of a pain in the butt. Using the -screenshot feature is much more convenient.
Note: everything I just said is for Windows 2000 Pro. I don't have XP so I'm not sure if any of the steps are different.