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I've been trying to record sounds on my computer (using wave instead of line-in) without any luck.

Can every sound card manage to record sound without a mic, or does mine just suck? :?

What sort of sound are you trying to record, and in what way. For instance if it was your voice, you would have the signal path voice -> mic -> sound card

Or are you trying to record from an external source at all?

I'm trying to record sounds within the computer (example: I'm going to play a game of Counter Strike and i want to record the entire match)

I'm not entirely sure if it is possible with this computer, which is kind of annoying :/

What computer? What os? What kind of recording software ? What soundcard ?

Life's full of questions...

I'm on a Dell Notebook I6000 with Windows XP...

I don't have any recording software on this PC, but i do have Cool Edit Pro on my other computer. My sound card is (i think) a Sigma Tel C-Major Audio.

I'm not too sure about my sound card though....

You can either use cool edit pro on the other computer to record from line in, and use a 3.5mm stereo jack to jack to connect the speakers output from your games PC to that one. You can use the same jack to jack as connects to you computer speakers.

Or you can get something like Audacity for free

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

and get that to record on your games machine while you are playing. It is normally set to record from the mic input but you will see that as a drop-down box. If you set that to wave, or "what you hear" if that is an option, you should be able to record the game out.

Whether your PC has enough grunt to run Audacity at the same time as the game without impaitring the gameplay, or putting dropouts in the recording, you will have to test.

The other possibility is that you download a 'record what you hear' program, such as 'Audio Mid Recorder' ( http://www.download.com/Audio-Mid-Recorder/3000-2168_4-10285976.html?tag=lst-0-4)

theres plenty of these programs floating about, they basically cut out the D to A then A to D convertion, they have the Ronsil effect - do exactly what they say on the tin....

Edit: Just downloaded the Audio Mid Recorder and works wonders, only one problem...only a 60 second recording restriction unless you 'pay' for it...

Thanks for the hasty replies, dudes.

I'll get back to you guys when i try these methods out.

EDIT: Great, Audacity does the trick. Thanks for the help!