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Hey guys, I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to plug in my console to my PC and have its output on my screen in a window format, I like having a play station for the exclusive titles and don't want to deal with the trouble of emulating them and dumping my games. I don't like just plugging in my console to my middle monitor (I have three) because then I have to deal with windows monitor settings like it thinking I have a middle display but it's actually set to console, or having to try to merge the split audio from my PC to my console. Does anyone know a piece of software that would allow me to do this?

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2 minutes ago, dilpickle said:

How exactly are you planning to plug your console into your PC?

I uh hadn't considered that part, I guess is anyone aware of a hardware + software solution to this problem?

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You'll need something like a capture card to ingest video into your PC. Like an el gato capture card. They make a PCI-e expansion card that can do that. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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5 minutes ago, Praetor5426 said:

I uh hadn't considered that part, I guess is anyone aware of a hardware + software solution to this problem?

Software is the easy part. There are free programs like OBS. First you need to buy the hardware.

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Can OBS be configured so I can get the input a full screen mode? I wouldn't like to play with the control panel open on my screen.

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43 minutes ago, Praetor5426 said:

Can OBS be configured so I can get the input a full screen mode? I wouldn't like to play with the control panel open on my screen.

Yes. Do a deep dive on OBS before you commit to hardware purchases 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Cool, didn't even think OBS could be used for something like this, thank you guys for the help/ideas.

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