Steam's New Game Recording Feature is Out of Beta

Steam has released its new game recording feature, wherein this feature works automatically and saves your footage in the background while you are playing.

Have you ever had a remarkable moment in a game? Wish to record and show it to your friends, or upload it to the internet, or just save it for posterity.

Well now you can, easier than ever before. Back in June, Steam launched its game recording beta, and now it's officially released and available for everyone to try out. 

This new feature does not require any capture card to store the gaming clips. It will save the gameplay footage directly to your hard drive automatically. You don't have to manually press record, there are options to do that as well. 

After that, you can edit the clips and share them directly from the redesigned Recordings & Screenshots interface. Now you can prove to your friends that you actually got those strategies  you were swanking about. 

If you're worried about this tanking performance, you'll be fine as long as you're using an AMD or Nvidia graphics card. Steam will use these GPUs to keep the load off of your CPU, but if you don't have any one of them, then you will face issues.

Fortunately, you can modify the settings of the recording quite a lot. You can choose which games get recorded and for how long, and Steam will even tell you how much hard drive space this will use up. You can also turn the setting off entirely if you'd rather not sacrifice your performance or would rather use your own recording set up.

The feature works on Steam Deck and desktop and you can reconcile with any game that allows the Steam overlay to run on top of it – even non-Steam games.

If you've ever had a PS4 or PS5 then you'll be familiar with how background recording works. I think the interface, editing, and sharing looks more instinctive on Steam's version. Though, it  also has markers that will note when you got an accomplishment or if you were in an actual match or just waiting on a porch. Some games will even place markers when you complete certain actions like getting kills in multiplayer.