January 22nd Steam Client Re-release has broken Steam Input for Game Recording

[RoDoX]

This is a brief description of what has happened tome for the second time and then I figured I have to post this here, so maybe it can be fixed.

I have Steam Input set to manual recording, shortcut to it is Xbox + Y, which is the one SteamOS used to disable a controller, I found it convenient so I went with it by editing the layout of this controller profile and now it shows on SteamOS Game recording settings and on Steam Desktop mode, as I verified.

Enabling manual recording does trigger a pop up notification at the bottom, so all was good.
After playing a game for a little over an hour, I then used the same shortcut to finish the recording, but I got no pop up. This time, my controller went dead, screen went black and my Deck became non-responsive, frozen. That behavior is new and it has not happened since Game Recording was released on Stable Channel, I'm guessing it has something to do with Steam Input, which was one of the focus of the latest update.

And now, I got a corrupt recording that cannot be deleted so I won't be using Game Recording again, at least until this is fixed.
Here's a video I made on this issue: https://youtu.be/Jc-uMK2qTW0

[ZanyAvian]

Quite likely related: after this update, my Deck started getting the names of my Xbox controllers mixed up, and the Steam Input profiles associated with each one were forgotten and reverted to default - including guide button chords, as you've reported. I opened a support ticket a couple days ago with more details. They say they've "forwarded my comments to the appropriate department", and can't offer any more help for now. I guess only time will tell whether they do anything with this.

[RoDoX]

Originally posted by ZanyAvian:

Quite likely related: after this update, my Deck started getting the names of my Xbox controllers mixed up, and the Steam Input profiles associated with each one were forgotten and reverted to default - including guide button chords, as you've reported. I opened a support ticket a couple days ago with more details. They say they've "forwarded my comments to the appropriate department", and can't offer any more help for now. I guess only time will tell whether they do anything with this.

They have always said that to the game bugs I reported to them, but since no affected game s I reported have ever seen any fixes, I decided it wasn't worth the time and effort anymore.
As for Steam Input, yea they messed up big time, again. This has been going on since last year, and it got to the point that, whenever you see "Steam Input" with a huge update catalog, it will be a ****miracle**** if your system survives that "stable" update without affecting gameplay, which it will.

[RoDoX]

There's more to this bug report than just Steam Input.
Game Recording is broken. I've tried enabling it and disabling it using the side menu, and I just don't know how this update went through.
These are the steps to reproduce:
#1 Launch a game in Big Picture;
#2 Open the side menu with XBOX + A, then go to the gear icon;
#3 Scroll down & Find the radial button to enable Game Recording;
#4 Play your game for 6 to 9 minutes, it may take longer, your mileage may vary;
#5 After that time, open the side menu again. You'll see at the top the blinking red icon indicating Game Recording is still going, but the radial button for it has been reset to OFF.

#6 [DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK] I've found out that if you record for 40 minutes to an hour and finish the recording via the side menu, it'll result in a crash and Steam will attempt to recover from it ("Verifying installation" screen will come up) - chances are, because you had a recording in progress, it will get corrupted and you won't be able to delete that recording from Big Picture. Not even in desktop mode, as I demonstrated in the video. You'll need to delete the entire folder and its subfolders, create a new one, and have Steam set the new folder as the one for your recordings, which requires Steam to be restarted in Desktop Mode.

[ZanyAvian]

Now, on a fresh boot, no inputs work except Steam button, QAM, and touchscreen. A reboot seems to fix it.