How do you make screenshots, which button do you press? I've seen so many explosions but I never get the chance to make a screenshot. Can somebody please tell me how?

Printscreen will give you the screenshot in the main Il-2 1946 folder.

Press button PrtSc on your keyboard (above Insert button)
The next step is where to find them.
Go to the directory where you installed the game and you will see some TGA icons. These are your screenshots. Save them as .jpg files somewhere else 'cause the next time you start up the game these screenshots will be overwritten by the new ones. As far as I know the maximum is 10 or 20 screenshots in the IL2 folder.

download Fraps. free software (freeware)
with that you can assaign a key to press and a folder to save the pictures in.
theyre saved in JPG as far as i remember.

Of course you could also record your actions and then play the track. That way you could look at every angle from any plane , or even the ground. Then you could pause the action and use several free programs to take screenshots.I have several free program links if you need any help just pm me. Jim Dean

Yeah i do the movie track and then post in M$ paint.

I've had over 100 screens before it starts deleting them and starting over. What i do is I convert them to Jpgs right after I take them.

Make ntrcks of them rather than doing the save track thing (they will run in whatever version you use later on). I have the S key programed in controls to do that.

Anyway, keep in mind that the tracks often do oddball stuff, like warping a bit, guns not shooting straight, AI waiting a long time to raise gear, and other bizarre stuff that you dont ever encounter in the misn itself.

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Originally posted by general_kalle:
download Fraps. free software (freeware)
with that you can assaign a key to press and a folder to save the pictures in.
theyre saved in JPG as far as i remember.

An un-registered version of Fraps will only save .bmp

.jpg and .tga are possible with registered version, (and you lose the watermarlk logo too)

Besides the in-game printscreen option there are lots of free utilities that take screenshots.
Irfanview is free and can take screenshots directly in jpg format saving you conversion. It also saves to any directory you want and does not overwrite the shots already taken. It's faster than the game too, uses less system resources, takes less disk space. If you have an ATI card grab ATI Tray Tools by Ray Adams off Guru3D.com - that takes screenshots in jpg (any folder) too and also has some great tweaks for ATI cards, hot-key assignments, profiles, and a lot more.