Write an article based on this "Download the MSI Afterburner installer. Run the installer. Launch MSI Afterburner after installing it. Click the Settings button at the bottom of the window. Click the "Screen capture" tab at the top of the Settings window. Click the "Screen capture" field that currently says "None." Press the key or key combination you want to use to take screenshots. Select your screenshot format. Select a screenshot folder. Save your settings. Start a game with MSI Afterburner running. Press your screenshot key or combination while playing."
MSI Afterburner is a graphics card utility that, among other things, can take screenshots of your games. You can download it for free from gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner. The file will download in ZIP format. Double-click it to open it, then click "Extract" to extract the installer file. Double-click the extracted installer to start the installation process. Keep the settings at their default and proceed through the prompts to install. A second installation for RivaTuner will start after the initial install. Follow the prompts for this as well. This will open the main interface. There's a lot here, but don't worry about everything you see. Taking screenshots will be very straightforward. This will allow you to configure some of your settings before taking screenshots. This will display the screenshot settings. The next key you press will become your screenshot key. You can use any key on your keyboard, but make sure you don't pick a key you use in your games. If you hold Ctrl, Alt, or Shift you can create a combination shortcut. The "bmp" format will be the most accurate, but will take up the most space and likely need to be converted before you upload or share it. The "png" format offers the best compression-to-quality ratio. The "jpg" format will offer the smallest size but at noticeably reduced quality. The "jpg" format offers a "Quality" slider, but the other two do not. The "png" format is the most commonly used format for publishing and posting screenshots. You can change the folder you want your screenshots to be saved in. Click the "Browse" button to open the file browser and navigate to the folder you want to use. Click the "OK" button at the bottom of the Settings window to save your settings. You can minimize it if you'd like. MSI Afterburner is very lightweight, and you shouldn't notice a performance decrease with it running. Your screenshot will be saved immediately to the folder you specified.