How to Find Your Steam Screenshot Folder

The path, one segment at a time

Every Steam screenshot folder looks like this, on every install:

Put together, CS2 screenshots sit at ...\Steam\userdata\<account ID>\760\remote\730\screenshots\. That is the same 730 you see in the cloud-synced config path — our where is the CS2 exe file page maps out the rest of the install tree if you need it.

Let Steam open it for you

This is the method to use, because it works regardless of where Steam lives or which account you are on:

1. Open the Steam client and go to View → Screenshots in the top menu bar. That opens the Screenshot Manager.
2. Use the dropdown at the top to pick the game — Counter-Strike 2 for CS2 shots.
3. Click Show on Disk. Steam opens the exact folder in your file browser.
4. Copy the address out of that window. That is your real path — save it somewhere rather than deriving it again.

One caveat worth knowing: Steam has been reworking this area into a combined recording-and-screenshots page, and some client builds have shipped without the Show on Disk button. If yours is missing it, fall back to the manual route below.

Finding the folder manually

You only need to identify two things: where Steam is installed, and which numbered folder is yours.

• Where Steam is. Right-click any game in your Library and choose Manage → Browse local files. That drops you inside steamapps\common\; walk back up two levels and you are at the Steam root, which is where userdata sits.
• Which numbered folder. If only one Steam account has ever signed in on that PC, there will be exactly one numbered folder in userdata and you are done. If there are several, open each one and look inside 760\remote\ for a 730 folder.

Do not try to guess or convert the number from your profile URL. If you genuinely want to identify it up front, it is your 32-bit Steam account ID — the same value that appears as partner= in your Steam trade URL. It is not the 17-digit SteamID64 on your profile, which is why people who paste that number find nothing.

Uncompressed copies and a folder you choose

Steam always writes a compressed JPG to the userdata path above. Separately, under Steam → Settings → In Game, you can turn on saving an uncompressed copy and point it at any folder you like — Desktop, a Dropbox folder, wherever.

This is the part that causes the most confusion: the folder setting in Steam's In Game options only governs the uncompressed copies. It does not move the JPGs, which keep going to 760\remote\ regardless. If you set a custom folder and it stays empty, the uncompressed option itself is almost certainly still off.

CS2 specifics

CS2 does not give you a usable in-game screenshot command. The screenshot, jpeg_screenshot and png_screenshot commands all carry the development-only flag in CS2's command list, so they do not exist in a retail install — you can check that yourself against our CS2 command database and the console. The Steam overlay key, F12 by default, is the route.

That also means the Steam overlay has to be enabled for the game. If F12 does nothing in CS2, check the overlay is on in the game's Properties before you go hunting through folders — an empty screenshots folder usually means nothing was ever saved, not that you are looking in the wrong place.

Grabbing frames out of a demo instead

If what you actually want is a clean shot of a specific moment — a clutch, a weird spawn, a suspicious flick — recording the match and scrubbing to it beats trying to hit F12 mid-round. Our CS2 demo guide covers downloading and stepping through demos frame by frame; the Steam overlay screenshot key works the same way in demo playback as it does in a live match.