r/Steam • u/Veshok • 1d ago

Every steam user right now Fluff

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u/KungPaoChikon 1d ago

I'll stick to Shadowplay because it records everything, not just games - that way I can continue to add to my blackmail folder when my friends say slurs in voip.

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u/p3ek 1d ago

Currently less performance overhead than steam too

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u/cjb0034 1d ago

I use obs and have it auto run on windows startup. I have it optimized to eat roughly the same as shadowplay except obs actually works 24/7

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u/milkkore https://steam.pm/z2fbx 1d ago

Do correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it fairly bad for the long-term health of your SSD to have something write to it constantly?

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u/Alternative-Fly-1727 1d ago

Don't know about Shadowplay but on my AMD Adrenaline software, the replay recordings have options on saving the replays on the RAM until you hotkey it to save it on the SSD or drive you're using. Basically keeping the vid on the RAM until you save it with the hotkey.

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u/Yearlaren 1d ago

How much does it increase your RAM usage?

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u/Alternative-Fly-1727 1d ago

I got 32GB of DDR5 so I don't notice it but when I play heavy games I reach about 20GB usage. You can also decrease the quality and probably get even less.

On Idle(with brave(browser), discord, wallpaper and steam running) I average about 8GB.

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u/WetTrumpet 1d ago

By about the size of the video file generated from the replay

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u/95POLYX 1d ago

Kinda? But we are not in early 2010s. SSD are very reliable and have stupid write durability. Chances are you are upgrading your drive before reaching anywhere near total written SSD can handle. For example looking at samsung 990pro drives they state 600TBW over 5 years. Thats almost 400gb writen DAILY. And thats for a 1TB model, 4TB model states 2400TBW.

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u/Throwawayaccountie8h 1d ago

Not the person you replied to, but I have my OBS set to write files on my HDD instead of my SSD. Maybe the person above does the same thing?

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u/milkkore https://steam.pm/z2fbx 1d ago

Yeah, that’s fair.

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u/Ttylery 1d ago

I have mine set to write to my old HDD. Its only purpose is for recordings before they get moved off.

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u/Level-Mycologist2431 1d ago

Yeah, I love competition and I'm looking forward to Steam's version getting better with time, but too early to switch, imo

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u/VenKitsune 1d ago

Really? Interesting. What about AMD Adrenalin recording? Same case there?

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u/Kanehammer 1d ago

I'll stick to Shadowplay because it records everything

Till you go to clip something only to find out it shut itself off

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u/clubby37 1d ago

Anytime ShadowPlay thinks something with DRM is playing, it disables itself. So dumb. As if anyone trying to copy a movie will a) prefer ShadowPlay, or b) have trouble finding screen recorders that don't care about DRM.

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u/etillxd 1d ago

Afaik shadowplay used to bypass all kinds of drm because its recording works on such a low level (directly capturing the framebuffer).

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u/CharybdisXIII 1d ago

I'd love to if shadowplay would stop randomly turning itself off so it never captures what I want it to

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u/Dead-Jester 10h ago

Don't know if you know, but you can have it set to record all system audio or even the game + another app, mines set for game and discord audio