How can I connect my Playstation 2 to my computer to play games?
It’s going to be hard to get a lag-free connection going through the computer, as they tend to do video encoding and decoding — it would be like playing the game through a Tivo where you’re not watching the live video, but instead what was just saved to the hard disk. In a situations like this a few years ago, I’ve used a composite-to-VGA converter. With this, I hooked up my game system over Composite or S-Video to a box that then output VGA to the monitor. If you’ve got a old analog monitor or a LCD that has both VGA and DVI input, this can work well for you. With the box I used, there was a remote control that switched between the computer’s output and the output from the game console. If your monitor has VGA and DVI inputs, then you’d switch with the controls on the monitor. As far as I can tell, there is no direct VGA output cable for the PS3, but there is one for the XBOX 360.
