File sizes for screenshots captured by the game aren't that large, the PNGs are usually around 2.5 MB to 3.5 MB each at 1920x1080, but when you open up a forum thread (or any page on any web site, not just this one) and there are multiple relatively large images all downloading at the same time it can take a while for a page to finish displaying all of them. Consider converting your PNG images to JPGs as the file sizes can easily be cut in half using with barely any discernable change in the quality of the image or at least nothing you would notice unless you were specifically looking for it.
I have an old version of Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and use the maximum quality settings available to keep the images looking great but there are also many free converters you can download or use online for free. Even Adobe has one. I've never tried any of these but here is the search results for png to jpg converter.
Below is a comparison of a file I just converted from PNG to JPG with the quality at 100%. You can make the JPG file sizes even smaller with some tweaking of whatever settings you have available to you but 1) I wanted to keep this simple and 2) we all want our screenshots to look as best as possible. This is a raw screenshot and no filtering was used nor did I do any touchup; usually I would at least apply a little sharpening.
Original PNG - 3.74 MB
JPG - 1.74 MB - convertered from the above PNG using Adobe Photoshop CS4 with quality set to 100%
I have an old version of Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and use the maximum quality settings available to keep the images looking great but there are also many free converters you can download or use online for free. Even Adobe has one. I've never tried any of these but here is the search results for png to jpg converter.
Below is a comparison of a file I just converted from PNG to JPG with the quality at 100%. You can make the JPG file sizes even smaller with some tweaking of whatever settings you have available to you but 1) I wanted to keep this simple and 2) we all want our screenshots to look as best as possible. This is a raw screenshot and no filtering was used nor did I do any touchup; usually I would at least apply a little sharpening.
Original PNG - 3.74 MB
JPG - 1.74 MB - convertered from the above PNG using Adobe Photoshop CS4 with quality set to 100%
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