Steam Game Recording, now in general release, gives gamers a simple means to record their gaming in audio and video, adding to Steam’s functionality for tens of millions of players. This tool is available for PC, Mac, and Steam Deck users and is a great addition to save and share gameplay highlights sans a third-party app. Now, the feature enters the ranks of recording tools offered on PCs for gamers with the same capabilities for years, such as Xbox Game Bar, Nvidia’s GeForce Experience, and AMD’s Adrenalin suite.
Steam Game Recording launches with new features for all players
A new recording feature was recently added to the latest Steam update. This feature will allow gamers to store in-game moments based on custom controls, recording length, and video quality. The hotkey triggers with Ctrl + F11 by default, allowing players to manually start recordings or set them automatically. This also makes this tool usable on non-Steam games that support Steam Overlay, so it’s not just for those gamers.
Since the beta release in June, Valve’s latest update includes many new features to make Steam Game Recording more usable. Users can now see what they can get with “advanced” export for even greater control over how they want to save or share their videos. Game-specific settings also allow players to set up recording configs per title, which is especially handy for games that vary in their performance demands.
Additionally, Valve added a Session View, an organized dashboard to manage recordings and screenshots, tagged with game-specific tags and metadata to help organize them. The update does come with some compatibility changes: Starting with Steam Game Recording support will vanish on Windows 7 and Windows 8 and older versions of macOS 10.13 and macOS 10.14. That’s in line with Valve’s earlier 2023 announcement about their upcoming upgrade and encourages users to upgrade to supported systems to take full advantage of Steam’s new recording features.
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