SUGGESTION: Enabling/Disabling recordings for individual games

[rxk]

Very simple, just being able to enable/disable recordings for certain games.

[Gemin]

I second this. I don't really need a recording when I play some games in the puzzle genre or other non eventful games.
I'd rather the buffer be used solely for games I want to clip, i.e. fps games or other competitive games. Maybe this could work as a blacklist where the default behaviour is to record whatever game you launch, but in the settings we have the option to blacklist games we don't want to record to the buffer.

[Dexter Tristisimo]

Same here. I want this feature. By default all games disabled, and I can decide which games I want to record.

[KyrQs]

Want to support this idea, there is another thread suggesting it here too, +2 from there. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/5/4416424085345863849/

Use case: I'd like to disable recording for games I tend to only stream for example, where I either need the performance or will use OBS to record, or for very demanding or multiplayer games where again I'd rather have the performance. Or on games I simply don't care to record at all in order to save the space. But by default I'd like to record everything.

[parroot]

I thought the exact same thing like 3 minutes into using it. I don't need my cookie clicker overwriting a Hellsinger recording. yk?

[Danimal471]

Yeah, this is very much needed, I don't wanna record idle game gameplay.

[Takkin]

I came here to suggest exactly this. Other services allow you to pick/choose what you want to do for various games; like 'Never Record' or 'Clips Only' or 'Full Record'.

Allow us to right-click on a game -> Properties -> Recording and then have those options available for that specific game.

IMO this is pretty much a must. Everything else has been pretty nice so far!

[Svenn Ethir]

Came here to suggest this. Would love to be able to disable recording for certain games.

[s0rnt]

Yeah, I totally agree. That would be very useful and, as Takkin said, it would be even better to have specific options for each game

[Kennis2016]

It might just be be, but I don't really see the point in recording a VN lol

[Ln5]

+1 I have to click the "Recording other game" warning every time i start a game, it won't record in the background otherwise. I think this is because i always have Soundpad running in the background which seems to hijack the recording functionality. Would love to disable recording on Soundpad to fix this.

[é c l a i r ♥]

Oh I made a topic too before seeing this! Yes this! This would be immensely helpful c:

[𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗚𝗔]

Agreed, some sort of whitelist or blacklist would be a huge QoL addition

[3 IQ]

+1. As well as hotkeys to start or stop recording easily which would enable us to do this in addition to default behavior.

[Dev]

+1
Some kind of whitelist/blacklist is needed. I don't want to have to delete my idle game recordings every single time. I would much rather they never use my buffer time to begin with.

[mistypup]

Replying to include my vote for this feature! I don't need recordings of things like Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, so it would be nice to just disable background recording for it.