I have this problem too. It takes anything from 2-8 seconds before it takes the shot.
It seems dependent on where in the game I am.

It happened with the new update. Nothing else changed on my PC for several weeks,
and I screenshot every day. No game update, nothing... Only Steam Client.
I also do not do any Windows updates. All Windows updates are blocked.

I have reinstalled the Steam Client, which made no difference. I take many hundred
screenshots every day, so this is a complete nightmare.

I do not run the BETA client.

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Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client
Steam Version: 1709168962
Steam Client Build Date: Thu, Feb 29 07:42 UTC -08:00
Steam Web Build Date: Tue, Feb 27 03:21 UTC -08:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient021

I run 3 screens with nVidia Surround with res. 7680x1440
File size is about 1-2.2MB
nVidia Driver 551.52
I also emptied the Screenshot folder recently, so there is only 650MB there.

This is a returning problem that I had for years until it was fixed a couple of years ago.
Hopefully it will not take years to fix it this time...

Me too. Since they added the HDR support it takes 5-10 seconds before anything happens after pressing F12 and then the game freezes for a few additional seconds while the screenshot is recorded...

We do believe this is related to the work we did on HDR screenshot support. We have to do more processing, and it is somewhat expensive. The screenshot should be from the time of press, but we wait on playing the sound and showing the notification. We're going to make some adjustments to give more immediate feedback with the sound, but when you are capturing very high res in HDR we won't immediately have a thumbnail for the notification so that will still have some delay.

Since you're here, could you guys consider using a better jpeg encoder to generate the regular JPG screenshots ?
jpegli is ridiculously good at almost all quality levels, better than mozjpeg and even faster.

Originally posted by jmccaskey:

We do believe this is related to the work we did on HDR screenshot support. We have to do more processing, and it is somewhat expensive. The screenshot should be from the time of press, but we wait on playing the sound and showing the notification. We're going to make some adjustments to give more immediate feedback with the sound, but when you are capturing very high res in HDR we won't immediately have a thumbnail for the notification so that will still have some delay.

Can we skip taking HDR then? And it's not only that the confirmation is delayed, switching screen and taking new shot is also delayed. It was fine a week ago, please give us uption to use the old one. This is a nightmare as I take hundreds of Screenshots every day.

Cheers :)

Originally posted by Eagleizer:

Originally posted by jmccaskey:

We do believe this is related to the work we did on HDR screenshot support. We have to do more processing, and it is somewhat expensive. The screenshot should be from the time of press, but we wait on playing the sound and showing the notification. We're going to make some adjustments to give more immediate feedback with the sound, but when you are capturing very high res in HDR we won't immediately have a thumbnail for the notification so that will still have some delay.

Can we skip taking HDR then? And it's not only that the confirmation is delayed, switching screen and taking new shot is also delayed. It was fine a week ago, please give us uption to use the old one. This is a nightmare as I take hundreds of Screenshots every day.

Cheers :)

I should add that I have HDR disabled in the game...

the worst for me, more than the delay is very high résolution simply not work for screenshots now... I really like do screenshots in extrême résolution, it's a nightmare for me this Steam update... Nothing saved in 8k or more...

This is an exemple of what i can do before this problem..

Ark Ascended in 12800x7200:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2466354671014408638/730ED092CFF99CECE2931000628A4408F8889802/

I Hope this problem can be solved fast...
Sorry for my bad english i'm french :)

Happening to me too unfortunately.

EDIT: I think I eased the problem a bit, I went to settings->in game->flicked off "When a screenshot is taken, display a notification"

It didn't help with the delay in the screenshot actually happening, but it did stop my game from lagging a ton when I pressed F12 so...half the problem fixed lol.

same issue here! anyway to fix it?

I though something was wrong with my PC.
At least 3 seconds delay, really bad for capturing a cool moment.

Good to know it's a known issue.
I like to keep lossless PNG screenshots. Hope it will be fixed.

this is also happenign to me lately, also sf6 when it closes, it takes about 40 seocnds or so to actually close, only happened after this latest steam update

cant spam screenshots anymore :( need to wait 4-5 seconds before taking a screenshot to register, even after spamming the key repeately will only register the keypresses after the delayed screenshot was registered

broken here too. will take up to 7 seconds (!!!) before the sound will play. was working without problems before the last update

After game session. Open screenshot manager for uploading new screenshots what was taken. Whole client freezes and glitch outs with black boxes.

Same issue for me. Dear, VALVE, please fix it ASAP. That's not only about delayed notification, the screenshot is also delayed like 2-3 sec after button pressed.