How to Take a Screenshot in StarCraft 2 and Where Screenshots Are Saved

Antonio NEMCD Author

Published Mar 17, 2013 · 1 min

Screenshots are usually taken with the PrtScr (Print Screen) key or special programs. But in StarCraft 2 you don’t need any programs — the game has its own built-in screenshot feature.

In short: press PrtScr in the game — StarCraft 2 saves the screenshot to Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\…\Screenshots by itself.

Where StarCraft 2 screenshots are saved

When you press PrtScr, the game automatically creates a screenshot file in your user folder. For example, on my Windows 7 (StarCraft 2 updated to Heart of the Swarm) the path is:

C:\Users\NAME\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\NUMBER\REGION\Screenshots\

• NAME — your Windows user name;
• NUMBER — your Battle.net account number (a folder of digits);
• REGION — a folder like 2-S2-1-1234567 — the region and player profile.

Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\NAME\My Documents\StarCraft II\

Then Accounts, your account number and the Screenshots folder.

If your account has several profiles, screenshots go to the folder of the profile you played with. The quickest way to find them is to open Documents\StarCraft II and search for the Screenshots folder in File Explorer.