Steam Game Recording Doesnt Work in VR

[Razorfibs]

Something is causing Steam Recordings to not start when in steam vr. Recording any other desktop game works perfectly fine, but something in vr stops this process.

If anyone has any solutions please let me know!

[2⊛2]

No solution here. Broadcasting in VR isn´t also possible since years. And i guess one needs to use third-party tools for recording and streaming VR. But hope VR-Broadcasting will come back to Steam soon.

[Bob Loblaw]

I use Microsoft Windows Game Bar to record the VR mirror window, so no third-party software is needed in that case.

[2⊛2]

Cool, nice idea. I did deactivated GameBar long time ago cause a possible lag and performancelost in games. Which Windows you are using ? I am stay at Win 10.

[Bob Loblaw]

Win 10.

[2⊛2]

:)
But i grab videos of my playsessions in my Pico 4 directly.

[Fremont_Cunningham]

But Wait - It's Worse!
A couple of weeks back, on Xubuntu 24.04 + Proton Experimental, SteamVR terminates shortly after launching. Running steam from a terminal (console) I see this:
......
Game Recording - would start recording game 250820, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 3735 for gameID 250820
fsync: up and running.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 250820
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561199057611395 [API loaded no]
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=250820]
Removing process 3735 for gameID 250820
.......
There were updates today - they did not fix this problem.

There are options in Settings for recordings. I have tried enable and disable. Both cause SteamVR to terminate. I have no interest in recording games.
How do I get SteamVR to ignore recording and just work?

[Nick]

use nvidia or amd recording, those are the most optimal sources for recording vr games

[Nick]

if nvidia doesnt record your mic (issue with me) try obs with 2500kbps 720p and 30fps

[2⊛2]

I did capture a video of Metro some days ago by SteamRecording. Working on AMD.

[Razorfibs]

Originally posted by 2⊛2:

I did capture a video of Metro some days ago by SteamRecording. Working on AMD.

May I know which order you started up the game?

I believe the order you start your vr apps may have something to do with it.

Also may I ask if you have any VR overlay apps active? Such as OVR or Desktop+?

[2⊛2]

In Metro i can´t use any overlays because Metro will stutter and jitter like hell. So i didn´t use any overlays during the records.

And yes, it wasn´t easy to manage a record.

You know the recording-function will record the mirror on your monitor.

I set Steam-Mirroring to show only one eye. (Let set it in the settings of SteamVR in the small popup on your monitor. Most found in the right lower corner near the Windows-Taskbar)

Did start the game until the menue was showed, and used the keyboard to press "Ctrl + F11". Manual recording !
And Steam will start recording, then you need to use "AltGr + Enter" to maximize the mirror.

Back to your HMD and the game. Play.

But ....
It is really laggy. Bad performance. However it works.

My advice is using OBS, or the driver of AMD or Nvidia (Gforce Experience (Shadowplay)) or the recordfeature of Windows itself.

[Razorfibs]

Originally posted by 2⊛2:

In Metro i can´t use any overlays because Metro will stutter and jitter like hell. So i didn´t use any overlays during the records.

And yes, it wasn´t easy to manage a record.

You know the recording-function will record the mirror on your monitor.

I set Steam-Mirroring to show only one eye. (Let set it in the settings of SteamVR in the small popup on your monitor. Most found in the right lower corner near the Windows-Taskbar)

Did start the game until the menue was showed, and used the keyboard to press "Ctrl + F11". Manual recording !
And Steam will start recording, then you need to use "AltGr + Enter" to maximize the mirror.

Back to your HMD and the game. Play.

But ....
It is really laggy. Bad performance. However it works.

My advice is using OBS, or the driver of AMD or Nvidia (Gforce Experience (Shadowplay)) or the recordfeature of Windows itself.

Interesting, thankyou! Also mirroring one eye using steamVR would cause performance issues for sure as the game has to render and can usually be seen on the screen if you enlarge the app, and then there would be the steamVR mirror on top of that, making it 3 displays to send to including your headset!

It sucks to hear you have to use manual recording, but thanks for telling me how you managed it.

[2⊛2]

You are welcome :D

Recording the mirrored screen is not the reason for the issues because the third picture which is showing the game is always running. If i close it SteamVR is closing too. I guess the stutters happens because recording needs much ressources. Maybe too much for my PC.
AMD Ryzen 5600 - 6700XT - 32 GB Ram - all disks are SSDs.

[Bob Loblaw]

Check the write speed on your SSD, they can be slower than HDDs. My gtx970 could record (using windows gamebar) to my HDD without issue... I don't think recording to disk takes much for resources.

[2⊛2]

I don´t know which codec Steam´s Gamerecording uses but i see taking videos by my graficcarddriver won´t result in stutters.

When i try SteamGameRecording Steam saved the output to a NVMe PCIe Gen4. Guess it is fast enough.