Running Xbox 360 Through PC

[Bobber]

Hello All,

Please go easy on this, my virgin post!

I have with litte reward searched the existing posts to find an "idiots guide" to linking my xbox to my pc. I currently use my PC as a full media centre as well as pc, so I use it for everyday use, gaming, watching TV and DVDs etc....

What I want to achieve is to have the facility to run my xbox into the pc and to play games on it whilst viewing the pc monitor. I've heard rumours of capture cards and VGA cables etc but its all foreign!

I'm sure my pc is of a sufficent specification to handle this but dont have the technical savvy to pull it of! Any Ideas?

[paintba||er]

So do you want to run it on your PC monitor, or on the PC itself? If you just want to run it on the monitor then you can buy the VGA cable and hook it to the monitor just as your PC is. (You can get a KVM switch so you can have both hooked to the monitor and when you flip a switch it changes to the other one) But if you want to have it on your PC itself then there will be issues. The first one is that you'd have to buy an expensive capture card. The second and much bigger problem is that there will most likely be lag and the games will be unplayable because what you see on screen is actually what happened a few seconds ago. I've heard of a capture card that has a gaming mode that is supposed to rid of the lag, I'm not sure what it was called, but from what I've heard it didn't work well, and it was Mac only anyway. I guess there may be something similar for PCs.

[Bobber]

Hey, thanks for the reply

So you think I can run both units side by side and only have to switch between the two. I funnily enough have a KVM switch already for a previous two PC link I had, Keyboard, Mouse and monitor ports x 2 plus single outputs. Is that right?

This would negate the need to run it into the pc altogether i suppose, but what about sound?

[paintba||er]

That sounds like it'd work. For sound you could just use the RCA to 3.5mm adapter that comes with the official MS VGA cable to plug it in the audio in on your PC.

[Bobber]

Ah ha! Genius, many thanks, me n the xbox will soon be inseperable and my marraige will be in ruins!!! Lol

Thanks Mate!