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Screen Recording Idea Need Help

FiCkS

Commendable
Mar 14, 2016
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I have recently refurbished a PC that was giving to me by a going away teacher it has been upgraded and is now pretty good (light gaming) The problem is I cant game and record at the same time it lags way to hard. I also have a toshiba windows 7 laptop that is about the same quality of the desktop. my plan was to play on the desktop while recording the game using the laptop is that a thing thats possible and if so what cables are needed (monitor is a vizio tv only one HDMI Port used by pc both tv and laptop have small blue port though (sorry forgot name) i will be thankful for any help i can get :)