[Stealthz]

I want to have my computer display recorded on the VCR while I'm playing games.

I have an S-Video cable that can plug in to my graphics card, and VCR on the other end. I follow the intructions here (http://www.svideo.com/monitorclone.html) but I don't see what is in that video. Here are the difference in what the video shows to what I see.

Video Shows:

What my computer shows:

The only thing I can think of is maybe the video is using XP64, where as I have an earlier version of XP. I really have no idea though. What is the problem here?

Windows XP
AMD Athlon 2800
XFX GeForce 6800XT 256MB

 

[Triple6]

Make sure you've the latest NVIDIA drivers installed: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html

Then click on Advanced and open up the NVIDIA Control Panel. That should help you configure it. FYI, the quality is going to be poor. You may be better off using something like FRAPS to record the gameplay: http://www.fraps.com/

 

[Stealthz]

I downloaded and intalled those drivers. I still have the same problem.

And about the quality.. The whole purpose of doing it this way is to be able to play the game while not effecting how the game plays at all. Both FRAPS and GameCam, and they will make a game drop from 60FPS to 5-10. From what I hear, those programs are best suited for dual core processors.

If I recorded a game on my VCR, then tranferred that video back to my computer, the waulity would be bad? If it looks fine at a smaller resolution, that's fine with me.

 

[Triple6]

On your Display screen can you click on Advanced? And then open up the NVIDIA Control Panel? The NVIDIA Control Panel is the best way to configure TV out.

It may be that Windows or the card is not detecting the TV/VCR.

 

[Stealthz]

The Display Setup should look like the first screen shot whether there is a VCR/TV plugged in on the other end or not. That's what i've observed from other computers. The only thing I can think of is I have Windows XP Home Edition, while others may have had a different version.

 

[Triple6]

Thats not one of the differences between Home and Pro or Pro X64.

You still haven't answered if you can access the NVidia Control Panel by clicking Advanced.
Can you also run DXDIAG from Start -> Run and see if the Display diagnostics are ok.

 

[Stealthz]

Yes, I am able to access the Nvidia control panel by clicking advance.

I ran DXDiag, no rpoblems were found. I ran the tests as well which were successful.

 

[Triple6]

Can you enable Television output with the NVIDIA Control Panel?

 

[Stealthz]

Where exactly do I go in the control panel?

 

[Stealthz]

I hooked a VCR up from the graphics card to the VCR and had the power on. I went to this in the control panel as I thought you may be talking about this. However, it doesn't show anything besides my monitor listed.

 

[Triple6]

Odd, have you tried clicking on "My Display is not shown in the list"?

Try the TV instead of the VCR.

But something does appear wrong with the card or the drivers.

Go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the NVIDIA drivers. Then run DriverCleaner Pro: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3214.html to remove any left over Nvidia display drivers.

Next reinstall the drivers and see if it shows a secondary display.

 

[Stealthz]

I removed the drivers from Add/Remove Programs, and cleared out even more files with DriveCleaner Pro. I then reinstalled the latest drivers form your link above, then tried it again. My TV doesn thave an S-Video port but the VCR was hooked up to the TV, and the computer was hooked up to the VCR. NO detection was found, so I clicked "MY display is not shown" and got this.

After clicking yes to the rigorous display detection, it still did not work.

I still don't understand why my display setup looks different than others if that isn't a difference between my Windows (XP Home edition) and others.

 

[Triple6]

There may be something wrong with the card itself. Or there is a problem with DirectX, the display driver, or Windows XP.

 

[Stealthz]

I forgot to mention:

I had the VCR hooked up to the TV, and when I plugged the S-Video plug from the computer to the VCR I heard the sound the computer makes when there is something liek a digital camera or something connected to the computer. Then 5 seoncds later it would make the sound that it makes whent hat device is disconnected (even though it was still connected).

So what are my options here? I'm a screwed or is there somehing I can do to try to get this working?

 

[Triple6]

I'm sure you could get it working, but I'm not sure how. If it was me I'd swap to cards or reload Windows to narrow it down. But I have resources available to me that you likely wouldn't - backup solutions and extra parts.

 

[Reaver]

I was having the same problem... for any people that veiw this thread. all i did was lower the rez (1024x768)on my main (and only) monitor and then tryed to view the displays list, there was a tv one there but it said disconnected but i did it anyway... Then i chose the not i do not want to keep this setting and put my rez back up to (1280x1024) now i have the option of multi screens.... KTHXBYE!