Whereas there is a bunch of third-party apps and companies you need to use to document your Steam video games, you now have a local possibility that is constructed proper into the Steam shopper. Valve has launched its personal game recorder in beta, and sure, it additionally serves as a local recorder on the Steam Deck. You possibly can both set the characteristic to start out recording within the background the second you retain enjoying or set it to solely begin (and cease) recording if you press a hotkey. When you select to document within the background, you’ll be able to specify the utmost of quantity of storage recordings can take. Steam will overwrite outdated recordings when you hit the restrict.
A Replay functionality will mean you can watch earlier footage within the Steam Overlay, so you’ll be able to see what you probably did mistaken in case you lose a boss battle or take a mistaken flip that will get you misplaced. You possibly can even drop markers beforehand to make it simple to search out clips you suppose you’d need to watch later. The brand new characteristic additionally makes it simple to ship clips out of your Steam Deck to your PC or cellular machine if you wish to share them with buddies or to add them on-line.
Valve says the characteristic will solely seize footage of your video games and never your desktop, however it may embody audio from voice chat packages. It’ll additionally work for many video games, even non-Steam titles, so long as they assist Steam Overlay. Because the characteristic remains to be in beta, although, you may have to hitch a beta program to have the ability to entry it. Go to Beta Participation in Interface beneath Settings to decide on a beta program after which activate the Recreation Recording possibility that reveals up within the Settings menu.
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