Valve has Done It AGAIN!

Valve just shipped a feature that we've been waiting for since the Steam Deck released. I've gone hands on with it and it's really well done!
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Chapters
0:00 - Context...What is Sherlocking?
2:17 - What did Valve Sherlock?
3:02 - How does it work?
10:13 - See it in action
12:40 - Possible Drawback

[@halozumbadaddy7459]

Incase Bill sees this, I saw a comment about "saving everyone time", but I want to let you know he does not in fact speak on behalf of "everyone". I actually really enjoy longer form videos because I can listen to them as a background noise while doing tasks around my house without having to break focus to find another video. If I wanted short form info I would be watching reels and tik toks. On another note I used to use Xbox's overlay on my PC to capture clips during games, but half the time it would bug out due to poor optimization. I'm really glad steam has a better functioning type of video capture tool that I can use going forward with now both my PC and Steam Deck.

[@NerdNest]

I appreciate you. The great thing about being an old man is I just don’t care what people that have yet to grow an attention span think about me. If my video is too long for them that’s their problem. Not my problem. There are plenty of people like you that appreciate context. Thanks for watching. And the kind words.

[@StrudleMaster]

​@NerdNest I agree with this dude, make what you want. If people want to know, there's a plethora of information gathering services lol

[@KingKraft0867]

I totally agree and do the same thing. Also bill, I absolutely love your podcast so so so much. I never take in news of any kind so unlike other people I don’t think they are outdated I have listened to every single one and that are perfect. Thank you for all of your content!

[@deathtenk]

​@@NerdNest To quote Shakespeare, "brevity is the soul of wit." To paraphrase, "stop wasting time". As far as i can see with this video you tease a subject with the title and then drone on about loosely related things before you get to the subject of your video. To restructure this so that it is more efficient, just say "Valve just announced they are bringing screen recording to the Steam Deck and Steam platform and here's a few thoughts I had," and then go into whatever your tangent is. People are more willing to listen if they feel like their time is being respected.

[@zhilasardar5483]

Totally agree, love u bro

[@TrueBasementGoblin]

I'll save everyone 15 minutes: valve added a video recording feature to the steam deck.

[@aaronstone360]

this dude titling is insane

[@finraziel]

He explains about it a lot more. And you're not even complete, they added it to steam, not just the steam deck. And if all you wanted to know is what the feature is, he says that at like minute 2. Don't know what you people really want... A 5 second video of a guy saying "Valve made a gameplay recording feature. Bye!" Come on, no one would actually be happy about that.

[@joshHJJTA]

He needs a reason to suck the Deck AGAIN.

[@vilian9185]

all steam*

[@2greenify]

​@@finrazielwe didn't want a 15 minute long video saying it either ...

[@seraaron]

I see no issue with them 'sherlocking' these plugins, because it's not like they were paid apps, and it takes the feature which benfits everyone and makes it more official! Plus screen recording was a much needed feature that should have been there within the first year of launch imho.

[@NerdNest]

I see no issue either.

[@CyberClu]

Valve didn't go far enough with the Sherlocking of VibrantDeck. You can't turn the saturation all the way down so that the screen looks black & white, and you can't turn it all the way up to get the saturation intensity that VibrantDeck could. I had more granular control with the 3rd party plugin.

[@mrogalski]

I would even argue this is `sharelocking`. The features were made specificaly for said hardware community and it was then improved on by the owners of that hardware without any additional cost other than your internet packets (if). It also expands not only on the SteamDeck but on all platforms (IDK aboyt macos?) where Steam is available.

[@IcyXzavien]

Valve was cooking today with game recording and the licensed controller.

[@drew1921]

They made some delicious products lol

[@davinwilliams3130]

I just wish it was an actual steam controller.

[@IcyXzavien]

@@davinwilliams3130 yeah same.

[@HerEvilTwin]

No rumble is a dealbreaker for me tho, very unfortunate

[@IcyXzavien]

I really can't say the same for me at least when it comes to gaming on pc. It should be a feature tho.

[@destynova4512]

I love that steam does this because I've always kept my Steam Deck the base OS no 3rd party nothing. I know people would say I'm not using it for its potential but the whole reason I got the Steam Deck was that its OS was as Console like you could get for a PC without lots of tinkering. All the special stuff I save for my Legion Go lol.

[@ricky_pigeon]

Edit: Broadcasting* I meant this: Steam streaming is still missing, but remote play exists which is almost the same thing. kind of weird its still missing.

[@JAHDUBProductions]

If I can stream to my XR elite, would be cool.

[@77wolfblade]

It'd be interesting how that would take off imagine Valve deciding a streaming platform as well. but that might be a bit too much.

[@ricky_pigeon]

@@77wolfblade i meant to say broadcasting, if you install windows on it, broadcasting works. it sucks the base steam deck lacks steams main features.

[@ricky_pigeon]

@@JAHDUBProductions if you mean remote play, you can do this if you login the same account in 2 places. i meant to say broadcasting in my first message. sometimes its nice to be able to show friends something, this feature exists on windows, sucks it doesnt on the base version of steamOS.

[@itsdeonlol]

Thank you Valve for listening to us!

[@6YoungAngel9]

when a retailer like GameStop doesn't match the promotional discounts offered directly by the manufacturer is upsetting.

[@premoboy]

Both the Xbox app and the PlayStation app has a place where your screenshots and clips or put automatically when you make them. Making them easy to download to your phone, then share out.

[@urracojalpa4481]

Not only that, but you can choose how far back the clip has to go, at least on Playstation. It can go from 30 seconds to even the whole session. And you can edit the clip on the fly, on top of the game, without even having to close it.

[@disasterincarnate]

great features they are adding, however my biggest feature wish would be to play a game on PC, pick up my deck, continue where i left off (which does work), and after this not have my PC then constantly have Out of Sync errors forever more because the sync worked from PC to deck but not from deck to PC, kindly unscramble that mess and im a happy person.

[@ZaberfangX]

Now game company's that are not on steam are going miss out the easy games clips for people sharing around online. I know people can do it with OBS and other stuff but making it easy for people to use is a game changer.

[@VaniRadham]

Its useful for gamers with mid to low range pcs because obs does take alot of resources on those pcs, which can impact on your performance

[@urracojalpa4481]

Actually, most people use the capture function of their GPUs, this is unfortunate for Nvidia owners given how garbage GeForce Experience is. However, there's hope for them too, because the Xbox game bar offers the same functions in any windows PC. So, your user case scenario is reduced to people who play on Linux, *and* have a Nvidia GPU.

[@ZaberfangX]

@@urracojalpa4481 it's all the share things coming with it, and the option for dev to add markets as well and much more on top of it.

[@Dark_Cloud]

These video markers should be relatively easy to implement for a lot of games The Steam Achievement most probably works in a similar fashion, when an achievement condition is met in game, that info gets picked up by Steam and an achievement pops, same concept.

[@Kinos141]

I mean what did everyone expect? It's either Valve doesn't add the functionality and have people chastise them for it or add it and people are happier, but will chastise that they sherlocked someone's idea. It's a no win situation.

[@MiguelJCintron]

I vividly remember when Apple introduced Sherlock. I was like “now I can get rid of 5 other apps.” That sucks for the other developers.

[@killingtime9283]

This is pretty cool. I really hope that Valve keeps adding stuff like this, I'm really missing the ability to share a screenshot through chat on the deck. Would also be really sweet to be able stream screen & sound to group chat on deck. 🙂

[@thedimarcoguy]

That screen share feature has been out for a while. You right click on friend while in game and choose "invite to watch"

[@killingtime9283]

@@thedimarcoguy Have you gotten it to work on the deck? I tried it a while back but it didn't seem to work. :(

[@thedimarcoguy]

@@killingtime9283 yeahh I gotten it to work in desktop mode.

[@ThePoisonSun]

Any way to see that retro handheld panel online?

[@NerdNest]

fingers crossed.

[@JAHDUBProductions]

Damn. In my neck of the woods and I'm still locked down in the hospital. Horrible time to get ran over by a car, even though every time is a horrible to get ran over by a car.

[@johncandelaria770]

Hey, everyone, am I alone in the fact that I don't care about video recording? I feel like even video I see today talks about this. I really think is just KZbin creators that care. Still will watch cause Bill is awesome.

[@optimalbonkerz]

Although I have decky and download plugins in multiple diffrent ways valve "sherlocking" is usually always something that offers more of that "console experience" I'm all for it honestly

[@disasterincarnate]

the screen recording sounds great, esp if you are allowed to pick where the recordings go to, we would have 3 instant options, the internal ssd, a custom location, so maybe to an external device, or another standard option /dev/shm/ which saves to a ramdisk the deck/linux sets up by default, the saves can go there, then afterwards the user can save the final result to ssd and the files(s) in /dev/shm/ can be deleted, getting our ram back.

[@TheDumplingMan]

Thanks for the great overview of this new feature. Goin to test it asap.

[@NerdNest]

Glad it was helpful!

[@NoRestEffect]

This is amazing, I wonder if it would be far fetched if they added special effects and such to edit our recordings, and have us upload directly to youtube so we don’t have to hold onto the videos to take up storage

[@FreddyPingus]

Funnily enough I was a bit frustrated about decky recorder sometimes recording empty files. I guess that's not a problem anymore

[@WarMomPT]

Interesting; I don't think it's for me just because I'm so ingrained in my OBS setup (and I'm more for single-player stuff where I'm recording set sections rather than multiplayer games where I want clips), but for people who need clips on the fly and in the background (especially without something like nvidia's thingy) this could be great. I'd be really interested to see what the options are like, if quality is just a slider or if you can do more granular ffmpeg / OBS settings, if it captures all audio or hooks the game audio directly, etc. I will admit that when I had the Switch, I was a lot more willing to just hold down that 'capture clip' button than I was on PC with OBS' replay buffer, even if I dumped almost all the clips in the end, ease of use is great. One concern I have though is that this will most likely just keep writing your replay buffer to internal storage, and because it's an SSD in the deck's case, you're constantly writing to a device that has a write limit - though iirc pretty much all testing in the past five years has pointed to this pretty much being a theoretical limit, rather than a practical one.

[@Toddimyre]

LOL. That "...this is *bleeping* cool..." comment cracked me up, especially since I was thinking the same thing. I personally don't do a whole lot of recording, but I have used various "snag a clip" options when something cool happens on different devices. This is pretty sweet to see natively.

[@lanedj801]

It might be a useful tool for diagnostics to add to steamDB to show where games have issues or aren’t playable.

[@maxxyize]

Hey NerdNest, which deck oled are you using? glossy 512gb oled or the 1tb anti glare oled ?

[@shinxshinra]

Technically you do have control over the Switch record button. I believe pressing it for a second record's 15 seconds while pressing it for 3 seconds gives 30 seconds of recording, I think there was another option but i could be wrong and lastly simply tapping it gives you a screenshot

[@emiliosanchez4610]

Im in love with this new feature, it’s gonna make it so much more fun to talk and share moments in games with friends :D

[@floriankudlikshobbyraum]

It is insane, even was before. I could stream to twitch with obs, playing hollow knight. With only the steam deck. I do not know how far this can go with more demanding games, but it was a fun experiment.

[@Rex87]

gonna use this new recording thingy most likely, having dedicated OBS to do the same thing wasn't very good for me, too many settings and I feel it when it's recording, but simplicity of Steam recording software sounds really cool to me and the fact that will be very lightweight is amazing

[@shifureisaikyou2055]

The issue is maintenance burden if you do that you discourage the original developer unless you hire him(cost) but now you have to mantain it. It is not sustainable. No matter how rich you are

[@eziothedeadpoet]

The feature wasn't sherlocked. Due to the complexity and api features they also implemented and integrated as an api with Dota 2 and CS2 for automated highlight markers this goes beyond the scope of any third party plugin that integrated OBS replay functionality. They probably started working in parallel or possibly even before the community plugin development started. I could see it with the vibrancy plug-in and sliders but even there it just feels like they copied android phone settings where the phone defaults to a natural saturation but you can tweak your OLED screens to be more vibrant. But then again this is mostly semantics since in the end the community plug-ins were all open source for the community and now more people will get the same features and even improved versions of them. And as with most "gimmicky" and "tinkery" open source tools and add-ons they usually get made because the author wants a feature and likes the challenge to make it and wants to share the experience with others. With Valve taking over similar functionalities and adding more options to then they allow those 3rd pary developers to focus on other cool projects so unlike with other cases "stealing" features this is a win for everyone and no one loses. I am not into the apple ecosystem but to me most of the times when they "stole" a feature it has been at the expense of those 3rd party developers that often even got burried in the app store by apple tweaking their recommendation algorithms and search results.

[@lightechoes]

Only thing I really want now is limited RGB support over HDMI.

[@SkywardKing]

I might have missed this, but are these clip sharing features coming to steam on PC? because it would be very awesome to have a simple way to clip share on my PC?

[@yungpaco]

This step ia huge. Making sharing easier for the player will also effect steam.

[@Areinu]

I like that it seems to only record the game area. When I played 4:3 game it only recorded the game, without huge black bars.

[@AppNasty]

I would arfue that these features are common on most systems and that any OS has future plans to continuously add new features. It wouldnt be right for devs to steal that from Valve. Otherwise they wouldnt need to make anything new and just be forced to let devs make plugins. Recording a screen is a basic feature. For me to swoop in and make a plugin is fine BUT i dont get to hold that feature hostage. Even if mine is better than valves.

[@mikereyes2488]

Ever since i got my steam deck (march 2023) i wanted to stream (or broadcast) gameplay to friends of some of the games i play on it but it doesnt work, it somewhat works on Discord but with no sounds, ugh Also, i dont see this video recording option on my steam deck. Is it for OLED version only?

[@anthonyramirez3439]

Is it already available to record on steam deck or this is something that is coming in a later update?

[@NerdNest]

It's there now, you just have to use the beta channel.

[@JoshF848]

I'll be interested to know the quality as well - Decky Recorder was impressive but not good enough to put out as a content creator unfortunately.

[@Sebanisu]

There is a plug in that allows you to transfer files to the deck over usb. I think that should be built in. It kinda treats your steam deck like a camera or a phone.

[@kitsune7919]

And still no official dual booting solution that they promised since before the launch of 3.0 and said would come with it.

[@truthgamingchannel112]

Now they new to give us a way to broadcast our games to KZbin

[@christianr.5868]

I’m happy for this, decky recorder made booting into desktop mode unstable for some reason

[@jeffrodrequez]

Never used anything like that before but I am definitely going to try it out - so cool (especially the editing and QR code sharing, brilliant)! Great video

[@sunxnes]

They should make a plugin to let me stream to twitch directly from my deck

[@redwizxrd]

Xbox app syncs with console tbf, getting my videos from xbox to phone is super easy

[@BizzianKylore]

Just to let yall know. This video was very informitive and indepth i thought it was cool and well worth my time

[@s7r49]

not my thing but definitely a big feature. i wish they'd just focus on the streaming from desktop cpu for a while. id like them to keep improving latency, hdr over streaming, etc

[@beardedginger9175]

Will this capture voice during the game.....? Or just the game, it would suck to have to do a voice over every time thats for sure.. I think it is awesome regardless especially for small clips but I am a bit curious about if it actually captures your voice while playing for long format videos.

[@thescrolls9190]

I want a SD but can’t afford it yet so I watch videos instead. Building the anticipation, it’s gonna be like Christmas when I finally get it.

[@OverloadPrinciple]

Please keep up the longer podcast style videos. I enjoy them as well as many others.

[@xMRxLAMAx]

And by ‘done it again’ you mean they’re just catching up to what everyone else was already doing? Cool.

[@LAFadhel]

One thing I hope to see, considering Steam Deck is a Console. We get more Steam Deck presets. Switch is Proof that sheer optimization goes a long way. Steam could pave the way for more games to be optimized for the deck and thus helping lower end Systems.

[@JayTsTech]

Ive literally been begging for something like this since release.

[@bfohl1]

Another great episode. I haven't utilized video capture functions much in the past but this sparked an interest that I didn't realize I had. I think valve has really thought this out.

[@PotentialEnder]

I have been using NVIDIA Shadowplay for years now. It just works great. This may replace it. Seems to work similarly. But will have to try it out to and see. I love that it is coming to steam deck.That is something that would be great. I hope it works with everything that is playing on the Steam Deck. Like emulation and such.

[@Cra1gst]

hope you can add key press overlay to show button pushes etc in the replays

[@NerdNest]

That's a great idea. I don't see a way to do that right now

[@Cra1gst]

@@NerdNest just idea of what to add that would make it S tier , like adding the mic as a second track , so when sharing you can toggle mute your mic in the video , also in replays see if you heard foot steps , I hope they can improve it

[@Cra1gst]

@@NerdNest Maybe a Steam Record manger letting you import other steam users shards videos (with timeline) allowing you to cut , slice , edit a play made from you and your team mates view , making video sync easy :) then you can share that clip with 2 videos and timelines

[@NightSprinter]

Now if Valve can stop borking DRD all the damn time. I actually find DeckMTP useful.

[@lilrockstar77]

Quick Correction: Nintendo has the same QR code sharing.

[@mrgomer64]

This might actually push me into getting a deck

[@Yusei255]

tempting into making me consider getting the regular steam deck in a few weeks.

[@Thornskade]

Idk there's a top comment with a lot of thumbs up just saying they save us 15 minutes with the info Valve adds recording to Steam Deck There's a lot more info here and it's only half true. Every PC with Steam gets it, not just Steam Deck, and there's a lot more to it like timelines, device interoperability using QR codes, dedicated GPU hardware usage - don't let that person trick you and listen to the video if this sounds interesting. Thanks

[@Thornskade]

So it sounds like it works like Shadowplay etc, that's good news for performance

[@Baumie11]

Got to ask a question at the panel. Awesome group of guys!!

[@skycloud4802]

I've wanted this feature for ages. I'm excited for this

[@randysalsman6992]

'Sherlocked': Apple accused of copying apps' services for new iPhone The controversial practice dates back to the 1990s when Apple introduced a service called Watson that critics say ripped off another company's tool. Since then, small apps have said it has become a pattern.

[@finraziel]

This is really cool! I actually was thinking about setting up some recording feature and actually for the reason that Valve states. I recently started playing hardcore in Diablo 4 (so with permadeath) and considered that dying would be bad enough, but dying and having no idea what did it would be terrible. Considered this because I saw even a seasoned Diablo streamer (Raxx) die and wonder what happened. If you then can't look back on your video it's a lot harder to accept and move on... Or learn from it.

[@hellknight03]

after i read what the update has i can also say the same "uhh thats Fucking cool!!"

[@PixogenPixels]

As a dev, not that companies don't do that. But you are missing part of the picture, color temp isn't just a slider and they want to keep accuracy correct. iirc they swapped to 3D luts which is why the color temp addon doesn't work. That alone is not only going to require programmers but people specialized in handling color. Along with tools and other processes. To implement things correctly takes time, I'm sure it was in the works way before anything else. But remember too they were dropping another deck so that increases the work too. Same thing with clips, sure you can get a solo dev made one or whatever but again to implement it correctly and have it use the servers and not slowdown games and all that requires so much time. I just feel like implying valve is just stealing these ideas from other devs is kinda off point.

[@adambickford8720]

I'd LOVE for them to sherlock virtual here so i can use my SD as a controller for my PC. (Yes, i know about remote play and it's not even close to as reliable or fast)

[@Ziggurat1]

I think the app apple did that to was called Watson not Sherlock. Hence the name Sherlocking

[@randysalsman6992]

'Sherlocked': Apple accused of copying apps' services for new iPhone The controversial practice dates back to the 1990s when Apple introduced a service called Watson that critics say ripped off another company's tool. Since then, small apps have said it has become a pattern.

[@CleanDesign_]

Should really be called "Netscaping" 😛

[@raymondnieves3710]

I still use Vibrant Deck! It’s the Principal for me!

[@Gnilretsam]

stepping on a grenade while getting hit with a battle axe? I wanna play that game lol

[@NerdNest]

You know what? I think I do too!

[@Gnilretsam]

@@NerdNest lol

[@biggy9619]

Nice shirt! I recognize it- did you get it from Old Navy? 😁

[@NerdNest]

Got it from my wife.

[@user-to7py4gu3o]

I was expecting Sleep mode downloads

[@Fender178]

I think Valve is using the AMD equivalent to the NVENC encoder chip that Nvidia uses for recording gameplay.

[@Weyoun359]

I still call it reverse engineering because the word Apple gives me PTSD LOL

[@jasonjayalap]

I hope they Sherlock deckcord next.

[@cocobos]

Next, add the Frame Generation ❤

[@Falsechicken]

To be fair I don't mind that Valve finds useful plugins and implements it into SteamOS. After all they are free and not taking peoples livelihoods away unlike Apple. Who has a whole host of advantages over the average developer. They own the platform you use, the store which sells it, AND they make a competing product.... That's just evil.

[@jd6554]

I don’t think many actually care about this. I do know several people who want to download updates while in sleep mode

[@NerdNest]

God I want that feature

[@Spencerwalker21]

Your audio is low on my tv I need to be double the sound volume with your video only. Haven't watched the video yet but valve somehow needs eac but idk how that's going to happen

[@NerdNest]

That's odd, I mixed this video the same way I always do, no clue why this one would be quiet for you.

[@Spencerwalker21]

@@NerdNest odd but anyway have you heard of Santiago Santiago his deck channel is awesome deserves a shout out 💯

[@check4rez]

Thanks Bill. Much appreciate the content and your NerdNest podcasts.

[@MostlyMustard_]

is it sure-lock like a lock or is it sherlock like the irish

[@ADrunkSuperman3]

Yeah i can do that on Gaming PC.

[@fernandolopez4895]

Game recording. Don’t care or will ever use👎 but glad you guys seem to enjoy it

[@showcards]

They reinvent shadowplay ? 😂

[@adventurousash]

Cool feature.

[@Eevolved35]

Awesome shirt! You got style 😎

[@oakfig]

Steam is finally starting to places!

[@MrRoundthetwist]

Places is finally starting to Steam!

[@LaymanGamin]

Is this bros first cell phone or something? 😂 😂

[@NerdNest]

I had the release notes on my phone.

[@kellyjr0918]

I remember when i used to play madden for xbox it would record my highlights and i lost a game giving up a td to a computer i was like 😑 i dont wanna see this

[@kingfreemind7314]

Do you know if (Kyle) Cryobyte33 is ok? He hasn't uploaded for a bit. Just a curious fan.

[@NerdNest]

His new job is pretty intense.

[@Ferguz999]

There is many games would benefit from this since they don’t use steam deck at his full capacity, I would say stick to and indie or older tittle or a game that isn’t cpu hungry. Watch your overlay and enjoy your recording start creating ! It will use your CPU not your integrated CU cores.

[@cirotheb5]

doesn't it impact performance?

[@drew1921]

Bill did it again an Made another video. I just had to watch because the information addiction is surreal.

[@cyberspacedweller637]

Sherlocking, great for users, bad for devs.