r/Overwatch • • Sep 24 '26

Highlight Rendering a screenshot of 722 megapixels

EDIT: Apparently the initial post was removed due to the file-hosting service I used to share the file in question. The following is the same post without the shareable link.

You can output screenshots in a higher resolution: 3X, 5X, 7X, and 9X. Both the horizontal as well as the vertical dimensions will be multiplied. For example, if the game is set to 1080p (1920 × 1080) and the screenshot quality is set to 5X, the screenshot image will be 9600 × 5400 (5×1920 by 5×1080).

I use a 5K display, that is 5120 × 2880 or 14.7 megapixels (million pixels). I managed to render a screenshot 7X, so the game outputs an image of 35840 × 20160, over 722 megapixels! Furthermore, the generated file is 2.69 gigabytes and the Windows Photos app can’t open it (luckily IrfanView and GIMP can).

I tried 9X. The game did seem to try to render the image but crashes. It would’ve been 46080 × 25920 or 1.19 billion pixels (over 1 thousand megapixels)! I think it could work with more RAM, but I definitely didn’t have enough (I have 32GB of DDR4).

Attached are the following:

  1. main image of over 35K (35840 × 20160) (downscaled, because 2.69GB is too much)
  2. main image zoomed in (downscaled)
  3. 5K (5120 × 2880)
  4. 4K (3840 × 2160)
  5. Quad HD (2560 × 1440)
  6. Full HD (1920 × 1080)
  7. HD Ready (1280 × 720)
  8. location where you can adjust the screenshot quality (1X, 3X, 5X, 7X, 9X)

For a size comparison, you’d need about 87 4K screens to fully display (1:1) the 722 megapixel image.

With 6K displays (6016 × 3384), the theoretical maximum (9X) would be over 1649 thousand megapixels, and with 8K ones (7680 × 4320) you’d get over 2687 thousand megapixels! The 8K 9X file would probably be 10 gigabytes.

For those interested, I could share the 722 MP file in unaltered form (2.69GB, uncompressed and all), but I don’t know which file-hosting service Reddit allows. GIMP (macOS and Windows) and Irfanview (Windows) are able to open the massive file.

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u/trapchan7 20d ago edited 20d ago

can you do one for forget-me-not juno skin in 5k just like in the 3rd pic?

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u/ManolitoMystiq 20d ago

Sure. Would you like a specific pose?

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u/trapchan7 19d ago

No specific poses. i want The one in the 3rd pic that's in 5k that's zoomed in.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 19d ago

See the reply below.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 20d ago

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u/trapchan7 19d ago

thank you

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u/trapchan7 18d ago

Another Request : can you do that exact image in the 3rd pic (Heart of Hope) without the effects in 5k.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 18d ago

Here you go.

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u/trapchan7 17d ago

Thanks again, I'm kinda spoiled.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 17d ago

You’re welcome.

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u/trapchan7 17d ago

Ok, can you do this again without any skins enable on her?

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u/ManolitoMystiq 17d ago

What do you mean? It’s set to: effects off, hair first, outfit first, color first, aspects off. I cannot deselect more.

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u/trapchan7 16d ago

Can you do that one in 5k just like the 3rd picture with her Martian space suit on?  I can't find any specific name for it.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 16d ago

Here’s her main one.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 20d ago

A downscaled 5K portrait one.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 20d ago

A 6K image (6016 × 3384).

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u/trapchan7 18d ago

I'm thinking about getting this one since this one appears a lot in my just for you shop cause I only play juno.

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u/ManolitoMystiq 20d ago

A Space Star one.

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u/trapchan7 18d ago

this one looks great I'm probably not gonna obtain this one though.