Capture a screenshot of a computer game at a resolution higher than the screen resolution

Capture a screenshot of a computer game at a resolution higher than the screen resolution

I work for a company that makes software to display 3d visualisations. We often grab still images from this software to use in printed media but clients often request the images be print quality and large (300dpi @ A2 or A1 sizes). We have a 30 " cinema display so we can capture images at 2560 x 1600 but I'm wondering if there is any software that would enable me to "fake" a higher resolution (either using the video card scaling or some other method). We use Nvidia Gaming video cards (GeForce 9800 GTX, GTX 280, etc) and our software is directX based.

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Guest [Entry]

"At a previous job we had exactly this requirement.

The only solution we found that worked was to split the scene into many small views and render those off screen and then stitch the resulting bitmaps together to make one bitmap of the required resolution."

Guest [Entry]

I don't think this is possible. However, depending on their complexity, you might be able to vectorize the still images (either by hand or by using something like Vector Magic), and then scale them up as needed.