Taking a screenshot with Controlled folder access on crashes the game

[Ihavequestions]

I recently turned on Controlled folder access in the Windows security tab, and this leads to the game crashing when trying to take a screenshot via F12. The GZDoom version is g4.14.2.

The message displayed in the window is "Execution could not continue. Unable to retrieve known folder."

Solution: The game should be able to handle such things without crashing. It should instead give the user an in-game message that the screenshot could not be saved.

[Kappes Buur]

It seems to me that you are going to a lot of trouble for little benefit.
You could simply specify a folder in the ini file where to save a screenshot.
eg: screenshot_dir=D:\SCREENSHOTS\SCREENSHOTS_GZDOOM

To expand on that a bit, I use these settings in the autoexec.cfg file
bind h "wait 2; r_drawplayersprites 0; wait 2; screenshot; wait 2; r_drawplayersprites 1;"
bind j "wait 2; screenshot; wait 2;"

[Chris]

It seems to me that you are going to a lot of trouble for little benefit.
You could simply specify a folder in the ini file where to save a screenshot.
eg: screenshot_dir=D:\SCREENSHOTS\SCREENSHOTS_GZDOOM

I think the concern is more about the crash when it couldn't save the screenshot to the given folder due to inadvertently specifying a protected folder, that it should just give an error message but continue running.