Capturing video off same computer

[ToiletDuck]

I wanted to make a video of a game I play. Is it possible for me to have the DVI out going out of my 9700pro and into a video capture card? Right now I'm trying to use FRAPS and I even have it writing to a 10K scsi drive and she still drops my frams to crap.
Duck

[Paced]

It would be a lot smoother if you had two computers to do this - one to capture, and one to play the game with (you're bound to lose frames if you use the same computer to do both processes at the same time). The computer playing the video game would need 'tv-out', which would go into the other computer's video capture card. If you don't have a second computer, I'm afraid doing it the way you suggested in your post will turn out pretty much the same (or worse) as FRAPS' output.

[ToiletDuck]

the thing is I just can't remember if the other computer has a video capture card or not. It is my roomates. We would have to put one in it.

[Toffypops]

check the grapics card...if its an All-in-wonder graphics card, it has video in and video out...:)

If not, get a cheap TV-card....usually have video in and video out..;)

But....remember that fraps grabs best at 15fps and 20fps and then only if you use fraps on a DEMO of the game you have recorded...not in actuall gameplay which would give you a framerate of 3 fps when playing.....

/Toffy