can i record with two computers?

I got a gaming computer which runs games pretty good, (at mediocre graphics) until i record, like when i record games, i usually run a pretty decent framerate, until i record, which bogs down my computer. but anyways, is it possible to record using one computer, but play the games i am recording on another?

 

yes

you need a capture card on the pc your going to record with, plug your gaming pc into the capture card, then on the recording pc record the capture card output

 

Im stupid when it comes to capture cards (because mine came with no instructions) do i plug it in through s-video?

 

Gaming PC into any input on capture card, don't need a manual for that.

 

If you have a capture card, the 2nd computer won't be needed, as the capture card will take away the frame rate issue, and it will be seemless, I've used that methood before, but I ran into MANY problems, yes, its amazing for best peformance while gaming, but I've ran into many audio sounds since most people use headphones, there is no sound being carried out thorugh HDMI, so when you record with a capture card, no sound will be picked up, I've moved on from using that methood and switched to Shadowplay by NVIDIA, comes on all GPU's from the 600 series and up, when I first started to use it at 1080p 60fps, I couldn't even tell it was recording, and at one point, when it recorded my desktop and the video was paused, I thought it was my actual desktop and got confused, so if you have a nvidia card 600 and up, use that, you can activate with nvida experience... I think thats what its called.

 

HDMI can carry sound and it can also carry ethernet. My friends and I record with the elgato game capture and it carries sound no problem.

 

ummm

wat?

HDMI most certainly DOES carry sound

 

Pretty sure it doesn't carry sound if your audio output is set to 3.5mm jack. Might be wrong though.

 

You misread it. They were talking more about it not working, not that HDMI isn't capable.

 

HDMI CAN carry sound, but you gotta screw around with the settings, the problem that I find is that I can get sound to the HDMI, but not to my headset, so thats the problem I was trying to say, I use a USB headset, but when I plugged in some headphones into the 3.5 jack, I got sound to the card and to the headphones, and I could use the mic on my headset, so I guess if you use 3.5M you're golden, but for USB users (so people who have wirless headsets) I feel your pain

 

There is a way of setting windows to use multiple outputs, I just forget how.

Also you can set an output to be recordable by audacity