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2 minutes ago, LuBlaBo said:

Have you thougt about a game-capture-card?

There are some good card from elgato. Just google it :)

jup - if you want to "play in a window" then you need a capture card. this might add some display latency tho. 

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I am looking for an expansion card for my pc to act as an hdmi passthrough.  Basically I want something to plug my nintendo switch and play it in a window on my pc.  Not sure if this even exists but any help is appreciated.

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2 minutes ago, LuBlaBo said:

Have you thougt about a game-capture-card?

There are some good card from elgato. Just google it :)

jup - if you want to "play in a window" then you need a capture card. this might add some display latency tho. 

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21 minutes ago, LuBlaBo said:

Have you thougt about a game-capture-card?

There are some good card from elgato. Just google it :)

Im not really interested in capturing gameplay, just playing my switch in a window.

 

17 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

jup - if you want to "play in a window" then you need a capture card. this might add some display latency tho. 

oh okay so theres nothing out there that just displays, good to know, thanks for the help.

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I don't think there a reasonable way to stream your nintendo switch to your pc honestly, sorry I couldn't help.

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quite a few monitors have picture in picture mode, so that could be an idea

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Just now, RoflWaffles02 said:

Im not really interested in capturing gameplay, just playing my switch in a window.

I don´t know if there is an other way to put your gamplay from your Switch to your screen o.O

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What you want is a PCIe based capture card, and software that can have a viewer open without recording input.

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1 minute ago, RoflWaffles02 said:

oh okay so theres nothing out there that just displays, good to know, thanks for the help.

 

3 minutes ago, RoflWaffles02 said:

Im not really interested in capturing gameplay, just playing my switch in a window.

for the PC to display live video in a window on your desktop it has to be captured and processed. or streamed to the PC.

 

"capturing" does not always mean recording - it's the process of turning a video signal back into data a PC can understand - that data can then be displayed or recorded 

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