Steam Game Recording Feedback

[Mr. Hoten]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for trying out the Steam Game Recording feature. We have posted a list of frequently asked questions along with some basic info about the feature.

We'd like to hear your experiences with game recording, and that's what this forum is for!

Before posting about a bug, please check to make sure you are on the latest build of the client beta. You can do this with the "Steam / Check for Steam Client Updates..." menu item.

When posting feedback about a recording issue, it will help us greatly if you can include the following information:

• Version of steam: The "Steam Version" number from the "Help / About Steam" menu item
  
• Platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck)
  
• The model of your computer's graphics card
  
• Your graphics driver version
  
• What game you were playing
  
• Any other game recording software you are also using
  
• The sequence of what happened and what you observed

Thanks!

[Andreakoss]

Oprindeligt skrevet af CO7DFiRE:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Gojō Satoru:

The recording tab in the settings is missing. Steam beta is turned on.

Same here

Select Steam Beta -> Restart -> Click "Steam" on top left on Steam Client -> Check for Steam Client Updates

[Not Mr Flıbble]

BUG: crash (segfault) on trying to change the recordings directory. (Devuan stable.)

steam[13260]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00000000cb3fdcdc error 14 in steam[565ed000+28000] likely on CPU 3 (core 4, socket 0)
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.

[MooDuck™]

very cool function, but i do not hear myself when i talking in discord with my friends

[KingKrouch]

I do notice one problem with the new recording functionality, and it doesn't let you outright save the instant replay immediately with a SteamInput binding, and everything is manual through a keyboard and mouse. You can set markers through SteamInput, and even enable manual recording mode, but not outright saving the last x amount of time with the instant replay system.

[MissingNerd]

Needs a hotkey. Steam Deck could use a button combo like Steam + Start. Decky Recorder already uses that exact combo and it's basically in my muscle memory

[MissingNerd]

Oprindeligt skrevet af KingKrouch:

I do notice one problem with the new recording functionality, and it doesn't let you outright save the instant replay immediately with a SteamInput binding, and everything is manual through a keyboard and mouse. You can set markers through SteamInput, and even enable manual recording mode, but not outright saving the last x amount of time with the instant replay system.

You sure it's just KBM? It probably works with controller in Big Picture Mode

[Not Mr Flıbble]

BUG: Opening the screenshot/recording management window then right-clicking on one of the items shown (often) creates a temporary separate window (which it should; menus should be separate windows, but properly marked as such & parented). The problem is that the window ⓐ has a frame (menus shouldn't), ⓑ is opened in the wrong place and ⓒ isn't sized correctly for the menu (it's exactly 800×600).

[KingKrouch]

Oprindeligt skrevet af MissingNerd:

Oprindeligt skrevet af KingKrouch:

I do notice one problem with the new recording functionality, and it doesn't let you outright save the instant replay immediately with a SteamInput binding, and everything is manual through a keyboard and mouse. You can set markers through SteamInput, and even enable manual recording mode, but not outright saving the last x amount of time with the instant replay system.

You sure it's just KBM? It probably works with controller in Big Picture Mode

Trying it on the Steam Deck, and it doesn't seem that much different. I'm just simply asking for a quick way to save the last amount of specified minutes of the replay immediately rather than setting a marker for when something happens in the recording UI for later reference. The manual recording binding in SteamInput simply enables manual recording rather than saving what's happened in instant replay.

This editor is pretty powerful, but it's basic features aren't as streamlined as consoles. Granted, there's Steam chords, but I'd like to use the share button on a modern controller like it's supposed to be used rather than as a glorified select button. I guess for older controllers, the Steam Deck, and the Steam Controller, chords are fine as they lack the button, but for newer controllers, I would greatly appreciate the option to keep the share button for that.

[Cup of Joe]

I love that we are able to get the recording software to pick out individual audio sources, but it'd be even better if it split those sources into separate audio tracks on the recordings (or even just provided additional M4A audio recordings alongside the original video recording). Separate audio tracks is very nice for editing so I can individually cut out things like discord chatter if I need to.

An option for a higher bitrate and resolution would be great as well.
Thanks for the new feature!

[Not Mr Flıbble]

I notice that audio recording isn't going to work since I don't use pulseaudio (or pipewire's compatibility layer):

==> console-linux.txt <==
Recording system audio

==> streaming_log.txt <==
[2024-06-26 20:39:06][930.425552] Recording system audio

==> console-linux.txt <==
PulseAudio: Context connection failed

==> streaming_log.txt <==
[2024-06-26 20:39:06][930.425891] PulseAudio: Context connection failed

==> console-linux.txt <==
Failed to init system audio recording: 1

==> streaming_log.txt <==
[2024-06-26 20:39:06][930.425938] Failed to init system audio recording: 1

[Not Mr Flıbble]

Recording doesn't actually seem to be happening (at least via on-demand recording; I've not tried always-on yet). It's possible that required libraries aren't installed, or it just isn't working with the game I tested.

$ ls -l **/*(.)   
-rwxr-xr-x 1 steam steam 53 Jun 26 20:36 clips/clip_250900_20240626_193605/timelines/timeline_25090020240626_193526.json*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 steam steam 53 Jun 26 20:39 clips/clip_250900_20240626_193916/timelines/timeline_25090020240626_193526.json*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 steam steam 64 Jun 26 20:36 clips/clip_250900_20240626_193605/clip.pb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 steam steam 64 Jun 26 20:39 clips/clip_250900_20240626_193916/clip.pb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 steam steam 67 Jun 26 20:42 gamerecording.pb*
$

(Devuan stable, Xfce; AMD navi23, Mesa 24.1; doesn't seem to matter whether hardware encoding is enabled.)

Also, what happened to the “open containing directory in whatever file manager you happen to be using” option?

[Isaac]

I understand that this is very new, but I have a few feature suggestions that would bring feature parity with some other recording solutions (For example a custom OBS Replay buffer) would be recording in memory (I have lots and don't want to waste SSD writes), and recording an instant clip at a marker of the last short length of time. (customizable, thinking around a minute or two). This could integrate well with developer support which adds auto marker support (auto clipping).

[moonlit]

Please add a quick way to save a clip from the last few 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, etc, have a shortcut for these, like in the PS4/PS5.

[nmi5]

Tested it out a little bit and have a few things to mention.
First of all, Im on windows 10, using a nvidia RTX 3070 Ti on driver version 555.99. I recorded 2 games, Cookie Clicker and Cyberpunk 2077.

Onto my actual thoughts on the feature. First of all, for some reason, it would just not record my mic, I went into steam voice chat settings and the correct microphone was selected, and a mic test from that screen worked, so I don't know why the steam record thingie wasn't capturing it.

Secondly, I think it would be good to be able to set certain games to not automatically record in the background. I noticed that it can only record one game at a time, and you have to manually switch it if its already rolling on another game, but for some games that are often running at all times (like cookie clicker) Not only did i have to manually swap the recording to cyberpunk, but when I closed it, it automatically went back to cookie clicker. It would be nice to be able to set it up so that it automatically excludes specified games, so I don't have to manually switch over every time I start playing something else. Just an idea, Really cool feature and i hope the rest of its development goes well.

[Szmaka]

Add option to delete recordings/open file path
Add button to mute other audio sources while watching playback in-game