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Steam announces game recording beta (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 4 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it's fine because the recording is not saved unless you explicitly tell it to save. If it's anything like Nvidia's shadow play, you set an amount of time, say 5 minutes that it keeps in memory, and when you save the clip, it simply saves that file containing the last 5 minutes.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

I don't think that's true of either. They're not saving all this video in RAM. Steam's system even asks you during setup to choose a temp folder for the video to sit in until you choose to save it as a clip. I don't know when it flushes that cache, but I'm assuming it doesn't and simply overwrites it when it runs out of the allocated space to allow you to go back and save something after you close a game.