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    Displaying PC game on laptop with express card

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Roman5, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. Roman5

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    I've got a Dell Vostro 3550 laptop with an AMD 6630 dedicated graphics card in it. I want to play F1 2011 on my desktop PC (which has an AMD 5850), but have the Vostro screen displaying what I'm seeing on my desktop monitor simultaneously. Then record the gameplay with fraps on the laptop as I play it on PC, so that there's no framerate drop on my PC. Currently, recording with fraps on my PC drops frames a lot and makes it too difficult to play. Will this express card,

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    allow me to do that, without affecting framerates on either computer? Someone told me that dual outputs should have the same performance when cloning the display as there's no additional rendering overhead.

    I presume I can connect HDMI out from pc graphics card or monitor to the express card slot?
     
    Roman5, Oct 3, 2011
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    No, I don't believe you can achieve what you want.

    The act of measuring changes the thing we want to measure in the first place.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Oct 3, 2011
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    Wow, great reply, thanks for the explanation.

    So, why wouldn't it work?
     
    Roman5, Oct 3, 2011
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    The act of measuring changes... :D :p :D
     
    tilleroftheearth, Oct 3, 2011
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    In other words, FRAPS shows the framerate being output by the 3D engine. If you did that on another machine, it would constantly display whatever the refresh of the other screen was because it's not measuring the actual framerate, only the framerate of the streamed video.
     
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  6. Roman5

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    Well, sorry, I'm still a bit lost. Does that mean I can or can't record the game on the laptop?
     
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    Yes you can. If Fraps doesn't detect the app as 3D, then you'd have to set it to monitor aero desktop and record the whole screen that way.
     
    HTWingNut, Oct 4, 2011
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    Cool, thanks Wingnut.
     
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    Just don't point fingers my way if it doesn't work! :eek:
     
    HTWingNut, Oct 4, 2011
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    Heh, of course I will. (kidding :D)
     
    Roman5, Oct 4, 2011
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