The only potential drawback, then, is the performance hit.

As such, youre more likely to see a slight performance dip when recording.

Press the Steam button, select parameters, then scroll down to the Game Recording section in the sidebar.

The updated Steam Game Recording menu on the Steam Deck.

Step 2:Upon choosing a mode, some additional parameters will appear below.

If you exceed these, background recording wont stop, butwillstart overwriting older footage.

Once youve selected a mode, youre ready to launch a game and get recording.

The updated Steam Game Recording menu that appears in the Steam Deck’s overlay menu, showing the shortcuts for dropping a timeline and instant clipping.

This is fully automatic, and recording will end itself whenever you wrap up the game.

This wont stop or otherwise interfere with the background recording, so feel free to snap these snippets liberally.

You also dont need to wait to start viewing, editing, and sharing clips.

Step 4 of how to record clips on the Steam Deck in the background: Open a background recording, press Y to open the editing interface, and set start and end points for a clip. Press the Save/Share button to save the clip to your Deck or share it elsewhere.

Just use the same shortcut again to stop recording, and boom, youve got a clip.

you could look out for the pop-up in the bottom-right corner to confirm that clipping has started and finished.

Select “View recordings” and youll get a library of all your previous clips for that game.

Step 3 of how to record clips on the Steam Deck on demand: Launch a game and press the Start Recording shortcut once to begin capture. Press it again to stop.

Step 4:Press the Y button to bring up the full playback and editing interface.

How to edit and share clips

Step 1:Open up your clip, or background recording.

Scroll down to the Media section if you cant immediately see these.

Step 4 of how to record clips on the Steam Deck on demand: When viewing a clip, press the Y button to bring up the full playback and editing interface.

Step 2:Select your clip and press the Y button to bring up the timeline interface.

Start by selecting the scissors icon that appears on the Y button menu.

The blue timeline bar should now have a yellow section, representing your clip.

Step 1 of how to edit and share Steam Game Recording clips on Steam Deck: Select a clip or background recording from the game’s Steam Library page.

Step 4:Tap the yellow Save/Share button and choose an option.

The other four sharing options are the same ones explained in step 2 above.

Step 2 of how to edit and share Steam Game Recording clips on Steam Deck: Press the Y button to show the editing interface.

Step 3 of how to edit and share Steam Game Recording clips on Steam Deck: Select the start and end points of a clip.

Step 1 of how to edit and share Steam Game Recording clips on Steam Deck: Press the Save/Share button and select a save or share option.