I want to record footage from some games. I tried Fraps, Hypercam 2, Camstudio, and about 5 others I forgot the name of.
I'll probably use Hypercam because it's simple to use and it rarely lags (lol at fraps and its 20 gb, 1fps videos).
The problem is I can't get any sound whatsoever in the recorded movies. Nothing appears when I select "Show deactivated peripherals" or something like that in the recording options.

Apparently, it's a problem with the drivers. They deactivated it so people couldn't pirate music on the net by recording it or some other shit.

Anyway, I have a Gateway laptop with Windows Vista Family Edition Premium. I don't where to look for the info about the sound card, so please tell me how to find it if you know.

If I could get that Stereo Mixer everybody keeps talking about, I'd be all set, but I don't know how to get it, or if it's actually even possible to get it to work on Vista. I tried using other alternatives, like Virtual Audio Cable, but I can't set the game's sound to play through that cable instead of through the speakers, so that doesn't work either.

I might be able to get sound if I used a cable to connect the sound card's output and input together as I can record from a mic (I think), but I don't have a cable like that for now.

Do you know any way to get around this problem? I'm not sure that cable thing will work and need another solution.

Sorry if this post is difficult to follow, I barely understand any of that stuff.

The Gateway site seems to only contain XP drivers, while some people on forums say Gateway has problems with their XP drivers, so fuck that, I looked somewhere else.

I thought my sound card was a RealTek and installed the driver, but it apparently isn't compatible and it completely fucked up my sound card.

That's ok though, I solved that problem. Now I found the sound card hardware ID, but I have no fucking idea what it means:

HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7634SUBSYS_107B0366&REV_1001
HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7634SUBSYS_107B0366

If I knew what kind of sound card I have, I could actually find a driver that doesn't fuck up everything.

Never mind, no driver seems compatible, but I managed to make Virtual Audio Cable work. Now how do I remove the shitload of background noise...

MA7... at least that's what it says under the laptop, but I couldn't even find it in Gateway's database.

And yes, I only discovered yesterday there's actually info there.

GPFontaine wrote:

lavalarva wrote: MA7... at least that's what it says under the laptop, but I couldn't even find it in Gateway's database. And yes, I only discovered yesterday there's actually info there. After looking at Gateway's website, it looks like you need to enter a serial number to gain support from them. I wouldn't list it here in the open, but if you want to PM me the serial number I'll take a look and see if I can find anything out for you.

Well, I already tried inputting the serial number, and it didn't find anything. Unless it wasn't the serial number, as there's a crapload of numbers there.

Which one is the serial exactly? I have those things that could remotely look like a serial:

FCC ID
IC
SCT
Something starting with 201 GZ (and another with 201 NY)
US
IC (another one)
MEX SCT

The one I tried was US, for "User Serial", but it's not in their database.

Note that this happened to quite a few people according to the forums I stumbled on. They can't find their model in the database either.

Ah okay, I found it. There's some kind of sticker placed on top of it.

Quote:

We cannot provide personalized info for systems purchased outside the U.S

So it doesn't work anyway. Oh well, I don't have any problems currently, so for now I don't really care.