I'm hoping it wouldn't be a problem, but many people told me that if I tried Elgato or Hauppauge, the footage will be choppy.

Now I tried to use a free recorder and tested it on a PC game, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. It's a fairly big adventure game, but the gameplay is pretty slow. It's more of a puzzle platformer than an action game, so it's not a strain on my computer graphic-wise. The game runs just fine, but all the recorders I've tried (Camstudio, Fraps, ActivePresenter, Apowersoft) screwed up the video.

I'm thinking this could be two things. 1) My computer just can't handle recording period, or 2) It's because I was recording AND playing a game on my computer at the same time. If it's the latter, then that's okay. That's the only PC game I play anyway; most of my gaming is done on consoles.

So if it's a matter of both playing the game and recording that my PC can't handle, should I risk the money and buy a capture device? For console use, anyway?