As the title states. Sometimes running with the steam overlay is a bad idea, but I find myself wanting to put screenshots on my Steam profile, which the built-in game screenshot functionality does not allow me to. Is there a way to accomplish that, be it via a trick, or running the overlay without actually overlaying anything?
Steam – Is it possible to take Steam screenshots without using the in-game overlay
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Best Answer
Here's a thread from the steam forums which gives a very roundabout way of taking screenshots without using the steam overlay (I've duplicated what's said there with a few edits as Jonathan Drapeau recommended). Some games just don't work with it. Basically, you have to manually create a remote folder under the appid of the particular game and store screenshots in there.
Program Files\Steam\userdata\X(number may vary)\760\remote
screenshots
" folder inside249590
(that's the number from the example for Teslagrad yours will vary). Insidescreenshots
create a folder called "thumbnails
". So now you have:Program Files\Steam\userdata\X\760\remote\249590\screenshots
&Program Files\Steam\userdata\X\760\remote\249590\screenshots\thumbnails
2015-XX-XX_00001.jpg
.Good luck! This steps will be useful for other games that fail to take screenshots or have problems too.