Steam Game Recording is now available to everyone

A New Era for Game Recording
Valve released a new update to Steam’s game recording feature to Mac, PC and Steam Deck for all users. Although this native feature was first tested during the beta phase, all gamers can now record their gameplay sessions.

A complete tool for gamers
This tool has a whole lot of features to it. In addition to live streaming it also supports recording in the background or when the recording is triggered by the user. It also has quick replay which enables the user to view the details of the game in just one glance. Examples include using markers to highlight areas that thee audience needs to focus on. Additionally, if the game supports the Timeline of the recorder, Steam adds its own markers to the recording automatically.

Until the announcement of it in June 2024 several games have endorsed this feature with the help of official support, Timeline and event markers. Of them, two are most popular: Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 are games developed by Valve Corporation. They also share the point that through Valve’s SDK third-party developers can additionally use these features.

This paper will have little effect on system resources.
As per Valve, this recording feature aims at avoiding usage of system resources in case it lack a GPU until the system does not hold a GPU. This is because the tool uses both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards that take off most of the performance hits inherent to generation of video recordings. Without these graphics cards, the system’s CPU is under pressure and therefore it can be affected greatly.

Easy sharing of recordings
Clips can be downloaded to.MP4, transfer to another device, available on smartphone using a QR code which expired within seconds or available on the web link that is open for anyone using Steam. We explain how to start enjoying this innovation: click ‘update steam,’ go to ‘settings’ and find the Game Recording section, where you need to enable the option. Please remember that it supports Windows 10/11 and MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 only.

Game recording on Steam ushers in a new era for gamers, offering an integrated solution for recording, editing, and sharing their in-game exploits.