Is there a capture card that can record PC's display ?

[Wheeze201]

I'm getting tired of the lag I get when I record my games.

I want no lag at all when recording, so I guess I need a capture card. But all of them are used for recording TV or recording console's display.

[U]Do capture cards work for a PC display too ?

If my PC is hooked up to a TV, can a capture card record that ?

And will it effect framerate in games ?[/U]

[Wheeze201]

I've been looking at Capture cards and some of them require a specificly powerful CPU. I'm afraid that it does effect framerate then ?

That is if I am recording the PC's display and not a console or TV's display.

EDIT: Some of the cards have something like "he hardware MPEG encoder
does all the work so your PC continues to run at full speed." in the description. So I guess it depends ?

[Aman V]

Get a better computer? I record at like 45FPS with FRAPs going

[Wheeze201]

Yeah me too. And 45fps is really bad if you're playing a shooter like mw2.

[editline]04:35PM[/editline]

Asked a dude that works in a local computer shop. And he said it won't work.

[Bugster]

[URL="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/"]This[/URL] is the closest I could find, although it uses hdmi but you can just buy an adaptor for dvi->hdmi.
I remember the leet world metioning what card they used but the link to the card 404s and was mac only anyway.
[URL="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/"] [/URL]

[editline]09:07PM[/editline]

Also you should record from a second pc if you're using a capture card imo.