New User and Sager Owner - Questions about Graphics Cards, GameMate, and Screen Recording

Hey, sorry if this all sounds scrubbish of me to ask, but I'm having a bit of difficulty and found this to be the best place to go to ask for advice.

To start things off, with a simple question, can the GameMate Media Player play my PS3 and 360 games in a widescreen format? When I connect my consoles it pulls them up in a Standard format, no widescreen, and since the thing seems to have no preferences to edit on itself, I'm not sure what to do.

Second, since I've figured out GameMates use, I've been DYING to do some game play recording. I'm using Camtasia right now, and it records just fine, but when it tries to play it back to me after I stop recording it locks up my computer. I've let it sit for at least 10 minutes before to come back to it still Not Responding. When I tried ctrl+alt+del the entire computer froze on me and I've been being forced to manual reboot. Even worse, when I boot back up, it seems to be still affecting my computer. I tried opening Windows Movie Maker and froze up, and after a 2nd manual boot I froze opening my Quick Launch bar. I had to do a System Restore in Safe Mode to get it back to normal. I talked to a teacher (I'm in school for making games) and he made claim that the cards in this rig are not meant for much outside of just gaming and that I should have gotten an NVidia card instead. I talked to Frank via e-mail and he got me new drivers and suggested I turn off CrossFire, but neither stopped the problem.

If anyone has any insight on this at all, please let me know! Thanks for taking your time to read this thread.