Playing PS2 on a LCD

[faye]

Hi, i am thinking to play PS2 games on PC LCD monitor.

I want to know which card is capable of doing it?

will any videocards that have vivo(nvidia) capable doing it?

which program to load and will i miss the sound?

thanks

 

[modedepe]

A card with vivo will work fine. Or, you can get a tv tuner card.

 

[LunarRay]

I just went through that..
If you go with any PCI card forget it... there is time lag. We have asus 7100 and 8200 agp aiw and it works fine. But, on one with out AIW and a Creative Digital VCR tv card the "latency" was bad. I went to Frys and got a VEG device that allows any platform and cable tv to plug in $99 and it works fine.

edit: it is a separate unit that the video card out plugs into and then to the monitor.. on this is a lcd monitor and it is great for games and tv. VEG = Visual Entertainment Generator..

 

[leolaw]

I have bought the Nividia GeForce 2 Personal Cinema in Compusa accidentally a year ago. It is hard to find the one in retailer now. I dont even know why I bought it. When that was just my history, I am going to solve your problem here:

I am using my GeForce 2 PC (this is the video card I bought it Compusa, I will use GF2 below) as my video capture card. It can watch TV, plug in composite or s-video to capture video ( including voice of course). It is not too hard to setup under Windows xp, you just download a driver from Nvidia and use the software called "Windvr" to do the recording video stuff. And the Windvr can act as a TV which you can watch real-time tv show and plug in different cable (s-video or composite) to display stuff. So you simply just plug in the S-video or composite cable from the PS2 to the hub and you are on the money. Although it is real time motion, I dont think the graphic is as good as a real TV, but for capturing still images or creating cut-scene from the game would be an ideal way to use the capture card. Whether you are using a LCD monitor or not doesnt really matter (which I would not recommand you to do so if you have a TV already. The reason I use the PC monitor to play my PS2 is because I have to use an antenna connector to connect the PS2 to the TV, so the graphic would be suxer than my GF2.

At this time, I would recommand you to buy the Raden AIW 9700 after they cut the retail price of AIW 9800 since AIW series are orginally designed for multimedia use and the Nvidia Personal Cinema are just for competing this ATI Series.

Hope that help
BTW dont be stuipd and waste all your money to do this unless you have a good reason for yourself

 

[faye]

ok, for those vivo(nvidia card), do they have audio input? same ques for AIW cards

my ps2 use those "a/v" wires, do they use a/v connector?

 

[modedepe]

The vivo cards don't have audio input. You have to hook it up to your sound card. I'm not sure about the aiw cards.

 

[faye]

i have sb audigy2 card, can i get good performance of sound(at least stereo) when i hook it to my soundcard?

I have no idea how can i do so. and i really planning to play PS2 on my LCD. want to see how good the image will be. My friend said it will be "blocky" on the image, but i want to see it myself

 

[Viper96720]

Plug the red and white plugs from the PS2 into the audigy 2's audio in. You'll need a 2 in 1 plug has 2 female ends to plug the ps2 rca plugs into. The other end has a stereo type jack that goes into the soundcard. An audio in rca to 1/8" stereo.