As of 2.1.0 WoW will now automatically save your screenshots as .jpg, i.e. JPEG format. This will cut down size immensely, but it will also cut out some details due to JPG being a lossy format. I've heard a lot of people requesting if it's possible to change the format which screenshots are saved in, for those people who want to change the format back to TGA you'll have to do the following (when 2.1.0 is out)
/console screenshotFormat tga /console screenshotQuality 10
You can also look for the 2 lines in config.wtf:
SET screenshotFormat "n" SET screenshotQuality "n"
Change n to what you want and start the game.
Both commands are important, the screenshotQuality is set to 3, which makes it look like a JPG, but in TGA format.
So this concludes my guide on how to change to TGA when 2.1.0 hits, and if you want it back to normal you can use these commands:
/console screenshotFormat jpg /console screenshotQuality 3
Optionally you could create an addon utilizing this, using the SetCVar API.
- Some example screenshots
- JPG with screenshotQuality 1 (272.46 KB)
- JPG with screenshotQuality 10 (1.58 MB)
- TGA with any screenshotQuality (5 MB)
- Notes for 2.1.x
- screenshotQuality only affects JPEG formatted screenshots.
- Anything other than "tga" in screenshotFormat sets it to "jpg".