Steam It is one of the largest gaming platforms on the Internet, with more than 28 million active users per day. Awesome. An immense legion of players who enjoy broadcasting their games live and who also want to record them to show their skills, their achievements and their fun moments. Now all of them have a new tool for gamers How to record your games on Steam? We explain it here.
There are different ways to make this type of recording, for example using the Steam overlay that is already pre-installed or using an external program. Each type of player has his preferences, which he chooses based on his resources and needs, of course.
But the great news is that now Steam offers its users its own tool to record their games. This means that it is no longer necessary to resort to external solutions. It remains to be determined whether what the platform offers lives up to what users expect.
Before starting the explanation, it is important to keep in mind that recording Steam games It only serves to capture images of the games played through the Steam client. We will not be able to capture videos from our desktop or other programs. It is essential to respect and comply with the provisions of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Steam Online Conduct Rules every time we record and share content.
This is how the tool to record Steam games works
Steam has implemented a simple way to record and share games, to which it has also added some editing tools. It can be used in two ways:
- Record in the background, which works automatically.
- Record manually, which only works when the user activates it.
Background recordings are temporary. This means that when the hard drive fills up, the oldest ones are deleted to make room for the new ones. However, it is possible to save clips created from recordings permanently.
Where to manage recordings? Once logged in, we have to go to “Steam”, from there select “Parameters” and finally choose “Game Recording”. There is the settings menu that allows us to select the games we want to record, determine the maximum space reserved on the disk, shortcut keys and other options.
Place a marker
With the recording mode activated, while we play, we will see a timeline Superimposed on the interface that shows us the progress of the recording, are its markers and the basic playback and trimming tools.
The Ctrl + F12 key combination allows us place markers at those points on the timeline that are especially interesting to us. Doing so will display a blue bookmark icon. This marker will not only help us get back to that point, but it will also be very useful when making cuts.
Create and share clips
By clicking on the “Crop” button We will be able to adjust the clip that appears suggested in the timeline, either by dragging the end points or through the "Clip start" and "Clip end" buttons. The saved clip is represented with a yellow bar within the timeline.
At this point we will have several options:
- Save to Steam- The clip is saved to your hard drive and is always accessible for editing or sharing.
- Copy to clipboard.
- Send to another device- To transfer the clip to a PC or Steam Deck.
- Create link: Steam hosts our clip and provides us with a link to share it.
- Save video file: to export the clip to MP4 format.
FOR view recorded games (with its corresponding timeline) we have to select the "View" tab and from there go to "Recordings and captures."
Compatibility and gaming experience
The Steam game recording feature works without problems with any game that supports the overlay interface, although it may not work for us with some older games. In most cases, the problems that may appear mainly refer to the lack of available disk space.
When this happens, recording stops and a warning message appears on the screen. "Low disk space." The issue can be resolved relatively easily from the "Parameters" tab, going to the "Game Recording" option: There we will be able to adjust the quality and duration of the clips that are saved or by granting a little more space to this function .
On the other hand, having been designed with the idea of using the least possible amount of resources on the computer, recording Steam games It hardly affects the performance and fluidity of the game. In summary, we can say that it is an excellent resource that all Steam users have received as great news.