How To Enable Game Recording on Steam (Beta)
- Opt into Steam Client Beta if you haven’t already through Settings window -> Interface -> Client Beta Participation.
- Once opted in, Game Recording should appear as a selectable option in the Steam Settings window, as pictured below.
How To Enable Game Recording on Steam Deck (Beta)
- Like with the Desktop version, you’ll need to manually opt into a Beta to utilize Game Recording on Steam Deck. This means navigating through Steam Button -> Settings Menu -> System Menu and enabling “Beta” beside the System Update Channel option beneath “Beta Participation.” You’ll be prompted to restart your Deck after this.
- Once opted into Beta, pressing the Steam button and scrolling down the Settings Menu will reveal the presence of a new Game Recording sub-menu. It has the same configuration options as the Desktop version. Be mindful of your Deck storage when configuring your replay buffer.
You can now use Steam Deck’s Game Recording and clip editing functionality. To prevent performance issues in-game, I recommended saving clip editing after you’ve exited or at least paused the title in the background. The visible gap you can see in my timeline screenshot below happened because I did not do this on my first try.
