Whereas there is a bunch of third-party apps and providers you should use to file your Steam video games, you now have a local possibility that is constructed proper into the Steam consumer. Valve has launched its personal game recorder in beta, and sure, it additionally serves as a local recorder on the Steam Deck. You possibly can both set the characteristic to begin recording within the background the second you retain taking part in or set it to solely begin (and cease) recording while you press a hotkey. Should you select to file within the background, you may specify the utmost of quantity of storage recordings can take. Steam will overwrite previous recordings when you hit the restrict.
A Replay functionality will help you watch earlier footage within the Steam Overlay, so you may see what you probably did fallacious in case you lose a boss battle or take a fallacious flip that will get you misplaced. You possibly can even drop markers beforehand to make it simple to search out clips you suppose you’d need to watch later. The brand new characteristic additionally makes it simple to ship clips out of your Steam Deck to your PC or cellular system if you wish to share them with mates or to add them on-line.
Valve says the characteristic will solely seize footage of your video games and never your desktop, however it may embrace audio from voice chat applications. It is going to additionally work for many video games, even non-Steam titles, so long as they help Steam Overlay. For the reason that characteristic remains to be in beta, although, you will have to affix a beta program to have the ability to entry it. Go to Beta Participation in Interface underneath Settings to decide on a beta program after which activate the Sport Recording possibility that reveals up within the Settings menu.