I've been trying to take screenshots of the game I'm playing and running into some issues.

Half the time (frankly, less than half the time) I hit the screenshot key, I hear the screenshot sound, but no screenshot is made and there is no popup. Other times it works just fine though!

All of the other threads I could find on this were all locked due to being outdated, and none of them solved my problem.

It works some times, but not others on my end. The noise ALWAYS plays even when it doesn't work.

The screenshots.vdf file has no corrupt entries, and the issue persists even if I delete the file and let it regenerate.

Restarting doesn't fix the issue.

Steam is basically the only application on this computer, there appear to be no conflicting shortcut keys and I don't know how to double check if that is the case.

The issue persists if I change which key the screenshot key is BUT, it will MOST OF THE TIME work on the very next screenshot whenever I do so before going back to working only sporadically.

Almost every failed screenshot creates an unselectable black screenshot that cannot be enlarged and does not actually exist in my computer's files, only within my steam library, and only if I select the option to view all screenshots and recordings for a given game. At least, I think every failed one does this, it is possible it only does so sometimes. The "successful" screenshots seem totally normal. (They CAN be batch selected if "Select all" is selected). I haven't actually checked to make sure EVERY failed screenshot does this, due to how time consuming it is to delete them. (EDIT: Just confirmed it does NOT do this every time, only sometimes. Still probably worth mentioning)

I do not have HDR enabled on my computer.

Perhaps I've missed another thread but I've spent the past two days looking for a solution to this and haven't found any and it's beginning to drive me nuts.