So, I was recently reading this Let's Play, and I thought I'd like to do something fairly similar. That is, a roleplaying screenshot LP of Arcanum because I love Arcanum and I love roleplaying and it seems fun and potentially more interesting that a standard commentary LP. SO, getting to the point, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good screencap software for easily taking in-game screenshots? I can think of a couple of options off the top of my head, but none of them are optimal: 1. Perhaps most obviously, using Print Screen. The problem with this is that it requires constantly alt-tabbing to paste the picture into Paint or PS or whatever, which is flow-breaking and could get tiresome very quickly. 2. Evolve has a Steam-style screenshot option, but I don't think it works with Arcanum (I vaguely recall trying it a while ago, I'll make sure later though). 3. Filming a video and then cutting it into pictures. This might be the easiest to find a program for, but would require a fair bit more work than just using screenshots, so I'd really rather not.
So basically I'm looking for a free program that'll let me press a button to create a screenshot that'll be saved automatically to a directory so I don't have to do the constant back-and-forth of Print Screen-ing. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks! :)

Hm, I didn't know Fraps had a screenshot feature. Do you know if the Free version can do it, though? Under the section for the full version it says: "Capture screenshots directly to JPG, PNG and TGA formats!" Does that mean you can't do screenshots with the free version, or they end up in a different format maybe? Does HyperCam do screenshots? It seems like it's video-only from the description.

I have no idea, i just remember seeing someone else use the software.

One basic solution. Have you tried pressing the PrintScrn button on your keyboard, then going into microsoft paint, press edit and then paste?

Free version screens are in BMP format.

Yeah, as I said above, the trouble with that is just that I'll have to be alt-tabbing constantly which would get tiresome very quickly and kill game flow.

Fraps seems to work fine though. I believe I can only take pictures in BMP form, but that doesn't really matter so I guess Fraps it is! I'll play around with it more a little later. Thanks. :)