Yeah, dont do it, basically.

You will get lag from this as you're diverting instantly what your PC is doing. It's unavoidable.

However, you can mitigate by lowering your graphics settings as a few seconds is a bit high. It should be about a second or less ideally. So you may have your settings too high.

What's your system specs and what framerate are you typically playing at?

Games should not lag at all when taking screenshots unless you're under the recommended specs for the game.

gtx 1660 ti
8gb ddr4
core i 5 8400
ssd hard drive + Hdd ( I'm saving the SS on the ssd ) .

60 fps or more

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Yeah, dont do it, basically.

You will get lag from this as you're diverting instantly what your PC is doing. It's unavoidable.

However, you can mitigate by lowering your graphics settings as a few seconds is a bit high. It should be about a second or less ideally. So you may have your settings too high.

What's your system specs and what framerate are you typically playing at?

Originally posted by DanteXtornado:

gtx 1660 ti
8gb ddr4
core i 5 8400
ssd hard drive + Hdd ( I'm saving the SS on the ssd ) .

60 fps or more

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Yeah, dont do it, basically.

You will get lag from this as you're diverting instantly what your PC is doing. It's unavoidable.

However, you can mitigate by lowering your graphics settings as a few seconds is a bit high. It should be about a second or less ideally. So you may have your settings too high.

What's your system specs and what framerate are you typically playing at?

I'd still lean towards what Kurumi rightly says above - you're either playing with settings too high, or you may have some other caching problem where you memory cache is too small. When you make a screenshot, youe instantly changing what the PC needs to do so there will be movement of data from RAM elsewhere, and that's where the problem occurs.

The other things to check are other pieces of software you may have running in the background. Try to close as much as possible when doing this.

It will also depend on WHICH game it is that you're taking screenshots in. Mine does this but generally only the first time I hit f12, in games like fallout 4 or dishonored. Some games won't really 'care' if they get slowed down by it but if you're in an online game that might get a bit bad.

Sadly it happens with all games

Originally posted by Zekiran:

It will also depend on WHICH game it is that you're taking screenshots in. Mine does this but generally only the first time I hit f12, in games like fallout 4 or dishonored. Some games won't really 'care' if they get slowed down by it but if you're in an online game that might get a bit bad.

Originally posted by DanteXtornado:

Sadly it happens with all games

Originally posted by Zekiran:

It will also depend on WHICH game it is that you're taking screenshots in. Mine does this but generally only the first time I hit f12, in games like fallout 4 or dishonored. Some games won't really 'care' if they get slowed down by it but if you're in an online game that might get a bit bad.

Again, we need more info and I suggest you try what I've said above.

Please go to the top of your Steam library window and click HELP > SYSTEM INFORMATION, and paste the ENTIRE list here.

Be specific about which games you've actually had this happen in. And also: be specific about how OFTEN you take a screenshot, because I suspect that has a lot to do with it.

I'll go with ( Resident Evil 4 )
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Windows 10 (64 bit)
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Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 27.21.14.5709
DirectX Driver Version: 27.21.14.5709
Driver Date: 10 22 2020
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
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53.1cm x 29.9cm (60.9cm diag)
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Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

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Audio device: Speakers (2- USB Audio Device)

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RAM: 8130 Mb

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Game Controller: MotioninJoy Virtual Game Controller detected
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I'll try to move all to other location then I'll check if it works

Originally posted by huut {JESUS IS LORD}:

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Games should not lag at all when taking screenshots unless you're under the recommended specs for the game.

actually if you have like 100s or 1000s os screenshots taken thru steam it can end up lagging after awhile

i once had 900 shots stored but not uploaded and it would freeze and stutter when taking new ones, doesnt happen once i deleted all the shots

thank you it worked

Originally posted by huut {JESUS IS LORD}:

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Games should not lag at all when taking screenshots unless you're under the recommended specs for the game.

actually if you have like 100s or 1000s os screenshots taken thru steam it can end up lagging after awhile

i once had 900 shots stored but not uploaded and it would freeze and stutter when taking new ones, doesnt happen once i deleted all the shots