Screen shots unviewable

[Carbon27]

 All my screenshots have turned into TGA files and are impossible to view. What the heck? The weirder thing is its  SWBF, SWBF2 and another game, not my RepCom, any solutions?

[Phobos]

IrfanView can open TGA files
http://www.irfanview.com/

I use gimp to edit them but this app lets you quickly look at TGA screenshots.

[Carbon27]

Hmm... I may download that if thats my only option. But how on earth did all my screenies get turned into a whole different file type? 

[RepComm]

Hmm... I may download that if thats my only option. But how on earth did all my screenies get turned into a whole different file type? 

Um, I seriously doubt any of your screen shots have ever been anything but Targa files.
Unless you have the 1 game in the whole world that does that.

[Carbon27]

huh, then i have viewed TGA files, but now it wont let me? 

[Sereja]

Perhaps, you uninstall some programm, which let you see the tga's...

Screenshots, can be saved, as JPG, with Fraps, I guess...

[Carbon27]

Perhaps, you uninstall some programm, which let you see the tga's...

Screenshots, can be saved, as JPG, with Fraps, I guess...

Possible, I did some unistalling recently, maybe I accidentally uninstalled something like that. But only if a program like that came with a 2005 windows XP, I never downloaded anything that would enable me to view different files.

[Anyder]

Try this maybe ? http://www.zamzar.com/

[Carbon27]

Im not very interested in downloading anything, I just want whatever is happen(ed?)ing doing this to stop, I play around with files a lot so I don't any more TGAed

[tirpider]

When you save screenshots in battlefront (using it's screenshot functions, not xfire or whatever other game addon thingies folks use) it is saved as a tga, not only by default, but it's the ONLY format SWBF saves screenshots. It's been like that since the wrapper came off.

By default, windows xp doesn't read or preview tga files. Nor does paint.

You had to have something if you were seeing SWBF screenshots.  Either a program that was saving them for you (outside of SWBF) or a viewer to read the ones SWBF made.

[Carbon27]

 thanks tirpy

[Ltin]

Where can i fend my screenshots?

[tirpider]

Where can i fend my screenshots?

The default place for XP is:
"C:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront\GameData\ScreenShots"

for other os's:
"wherever_you_installed_battlefront\Star Wars Battlefront\GameData\ScreenShots"

[Ltin]

The default place for XP is:
"C:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront\GameData\ScreenShots"

for other os's:
"wherever_you_installed_battlefront\Star Wars Battlefront\GameData\ScreenShots"

its not inthere
is it different for windows 7?

[tirpider]

It should be in the GameData folder.
The same place the AddOn folder lives.

If you have not used the in-game screenshot function before, then the folder may not have been created yet.

The default key for taking screenshots ingame is "p", I believe.