Why not turn it off and press STEAM+A each time you want it to record? I _think_ you can go into the settings and edit recording on a per-game basis but I'm not 100% sure about that.

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Why not turn it off and press STEAM+A each time you want it to record? I _think_ you can go into the settings and edit recording on a per-game basis but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Because I am not planning to record something in advance, i want to save the clips when something happens, after the fact. That's why i want background recording on for those games all the time. It only saves a certain number of minutes in a rolling buffer that overwrites itself until i tell it to save. I just don't want it to be background recording EVERY game all the time until i tell it not to. I want it to only turn on background recording when I play those couple games.

But with it as it is, if I install a new game or play a new game for the first time, if I have Background Recording on, it will automatically allot a section of my drive and start background recording of the new game until i manually go in there and de-activate background recording for that individual game, and delete the files it has started to record to. I would prefer if it had background recording on, but didn't start background recording for a new game until I manually go in there and activate it to tell it to start recording that game.

It's a minor difference, but it's a difference that's significant to me. Effectively, Valve is making the Background Recording feature an Opt-Out feature for every game once you turn the feature on, requiring that the user manually Opt-Out and tell Steam NOT to record each new game as you install it for the first time. What's worse, for the countless people that don't understand this ( which I would bet is most of them ) every time they play a new game with the Background Recording feature enabled (because they just wanted clips of that one game in their library) they are giving up several gigs of drive space to a feature they don't want or need for that game.

What I would like is the feature to be Opt-IN which would make it so the background feature is on, and records for the games you have selected, but won't record NEW games until you have Opted IN for that new game by going into the settings for that game and adding it to the list of games you want to Background Recording to be active for.

It would be even better if they just added a dialog box that comes up at the same time as the install or EULA dialog box pop-ups on the first run of a new game. Have the dialog box ask "Would you like Background Recording to monitor and record this game? Yes or No." That would probably be the easiest and quickest "fix" for this.

Or they could the Background Recording feature into one giant buffer that records every game and everything to a rolling buffer, and just save the filename under that program's name or folder when you actually save a clip, just like Nvidia Shadowplay does.

Either option would be great, but right now it's like Valve chose the worst option of the three with the Opt-Out method.