Record clips with minimal impact on your rig.
Steam’s game recorder is now available to all users across PC, Mac, and Steam Deck, Valve has today announced.
“It’s a new built-in system for creating and sharing your gameplay footage, which runs in the background so you never miss a moment,” Valve said of the feature, which mirrors similar functionality found within Xbox Series and PS5 consoles.
“With Background Recording mode, your gameplay is continuously saved to your preferred drive, never exceeding your specified duration and storage limits. An On Demand Recording mode with manual start and stop is also available,” Valve continued. “Use the Steam Timeline and Event Markers to find key moments.”
Players can save MP4 videos of gameplay, and either save to their local machine or create a link that can be shared via the Steam app or QR code.
Valve also stressed that the feature won’t tax your rig.
“Steam Game Recording has been designed with the goal of taking as little computer resources away from the game you are playing as possible,” Valve said. “It takes advantage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards to remove most of the performance cost of creating video recordings. When run on systems without those graphics cards, the system’s CPU is used to create video recordings which may cause a noticeable performance impact.”
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