Steam recording: Clips not saving at all

[NeoJ]

Hello! I wish you can help me.

I've been using the steam recording feature without much issues, but today, for some reason, it stopped working as it should.

The "save the last seconds to a clip" is not working anymore for me. Before, I just pressed a combination of keys and I had my clip recorded and exported for the last 120 seconds (got it set like that), but now, when I press the combination, it does not work. It does make the sound as if the clip were actually saved just when I press the keys, but when I go to the directory, there is nothing. I also do not have a notification with something like "your clip was saved".

I do can manually export clips, and screenshots are saving and everything, but the "save the last minutes" feature has stopped working for me with no reason.

Am I the only one with this issue? Anything you suggest I can do to fix it? I've tried changing the directory just in case, and it is doing the same.

Thank you!

[noxtherox]

I have been facing the exact same issue since maybe a day or two, I use this feature extensively, would also like to know if there's a fix

[NeoJ]

Originally posted by noxtherox:

I have been facing the exact same issue since maybe a day or two, I use this feature extensively, would also like to know if there's a fix

Kind of happy to see that I am not the only one, I wish they fix it soon.

I've notice that the sound it makes when I press the "save the last minute" keys is the same as the one when you manually turn off a clip you've started to record. I don't know if it helps, I don't even remember the sound it made when it was working, but got to say it just in case.

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[LucasRFA]

I've lost several clips today while playing with my friend.
It happens as you said: when pressing the clipping hotkey it emits a sound, but it doesn't actually clips.

Now there's only the last 5 minutes of gameplay. The rest of the recording is "greyed out" on the timeline, and it seems impossible to watch it, although steam have registered when I've got the achievements. What a shame.

[Darth Feio]

i have the same issue
i wonder how widespread it is, hope there is a fix soon

[BrochachoTB]

Same issue here too, sigh......

[grap3_day]

Same here
I set the settings to save the last 300 seconds (5 minutes). When I press the hotkey, I hear the sound, but nothing is saved.
Manual start/stop recording works fine, but background recording does not save.

[RPG Gamer Man]

You need to turn off broadcasting. If you have broadcasting on at same time as recording, it will not work. Also, for some reason, the recoding controls also use settings from broadcasting. Try putting the settings of broadcasting to friends only and see if it works. My friend tried this and it worked for him. Just make sure that broadcasting is turned off and not on.

[NeoJ]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

You need to turn off broadcasting. If you have broadcasting on at same time as recording, it will not work. Also, for some reason, the recoding controls also use settings from broadcasting. Try putting the settings of broadcasting to friends only and see if it works. My friend tried this and it worked for him. Just make sure that broadcasting is turned off and not on.

Thanks for your message! My broadcasting was off all the time, but I read about it as a solution back then, so, it might help some users.

Right now, it is working, or at least, it is saving the clip to Steam's Gallery. I'm not sure if I am crazy or not, but at some point you just pressed the keys for the shortcut and you had the clip exported right in the directory. Now, the clip is made, but it is saved to the gallery instead, which means, you need a couple more clicks to export it as a video in your system. It would be nice if something like that could be done.

[BrochachoTB]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

You need to turn off broadcasting. If you have broadcasting on at same time as recording, it will not work. Also, for some reason, the recoding controls also use settings from broadcasting. Try putting the settings of broadcasting to friends only and see if it works. My friend tried this and it worked for him. Just make sure that broadcasting is turned off and not on.

Huh, my Broadcasting was already turned off for performance... Idk I'll try it when I can

Edit1: Well that worked... Must've been a beta quirk

[grap3_day]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

You need to turn off broadcasting. If you have broadcasting on at same time as recording, it will not work. Also, for some reason, the recoding controls also use settings from broadcasting. Try putting the settings of broadcasting to friends only and see if it works. My friend tried this and it worked for him. Just make sure that broadcasting is turned off and not on.

It worked for me only once. I turned on the broadcast, switched from "not available to anyone" to "available to friends on request", turned off the broadcast again and a couple of times I was able to save the last 5 minutes of gameplay.

After rebooting the PC, everything returned to the state it was in initially - the clips are not saved to disk. I hear the sound, but there is no notification and the video is not in the folder.

[grap3_day]

I fixed it for myself
To save the last 300 seconds you need to set the buffer recording time to 6 minutes. Now my video always saves as it should.

[Clit Johnson]

I had this same issue, maybe it might help for some. I had my "save the last _ seconds of gameplay as a clip" button bound to a Numpad key, This works fine when the numlock is on and saves the clip just fine, but when the num lock is off the clip saving sound plays but no clip is actually saved to steam. I changed the save clip button to F11 and it works fine now. Hope this helps at least someone

[Aniima]

i had the same issue but i had steam overlay turned off so once I turned it on, it started working