Steam Recording not working with Heroic games

I added Alan Wake 2 to Steam through Heroic and added heroic itself as well so I can get Steam overlay which showed up just fine, but Steam Recording is not working. I can take screenshots and use Steam Input but the recording is not seeing anything

nursing-lime•1/17/25, 5:33 AM

I haven't checked in a long time, but when the feature first rolled out, it didn't work on non-Steam stuff that runs externally

nursing-lime•1/17/25, 5:34 AM

maybe it works on stuff installed by Steam. I don't know

dry-scarlet•1/17/25, 5:35 AM

pretty sure it only works on things you got from steam

dry-scarlet•1/17/25, 5:35 AM

i dont think it works on their side load feature

nursing-lime•1/17/25, 5:35 AM

it's intended to

nursing-lime•1/17/25, 5:36 AM

I don't have anything sideloaded into Steam to find out though

dry-scarlet•1/17/25, 5:36 AM

i wonder if that's only true on windows

nursing-lime•1/17/25, 5:37 AM

in practice, probably hah

nursing-lime•1/17/25, 5:37 AM

it's right under a "Steam Deck Verified" descriptor too

dry-scarlet•1/17/25, 5:39 AM

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dry-scarlet•1/17/25, 5:39 AM

maybe i should try it later

Nnursing-lime I haven't checked in a long time, but when the feature first rolled out, it didn...

then-purpleOP•1/17/25, 10:06 AM

Haven't thought of that. I was using it alot on Windows with so many non-steam games.

then-purpleOP•1/17/25, 10:06 AM

I did rebase my Bazzite to Bazzite-deck to get their steam gamemode and it did actually record properly

then-purpleOP•1/17/25, 10:07 AM

But switching between desktop and gamemode is not a thing for daily pc users. I mean it's for theater pcs and handhelds

then-purpleOP•1/17/25, 11:39 AM

I thought maybe it's a wayland thing, so I installed X11 but the whole DE didn't boot

then-purpleOP•1/17/25, 12:22 PM

ok.... I accidentally switched to Steam stable and I was wondering I lost the overlay. Apparently, it's something they introduced with Steam beta. yay steam recording for non-steam is close

then-purpleOP•1/18/25, 5:36 PM

I feel like im annoying when I keep updating this... but adding the game's exe does work and it starts recording properly. So I can confidently say Steam does support recording non-steam games. It's just Heroic

nursing-lime•1/18/25, 6:08 PM

I’m more inclined to believe that Steam can’t record anything running from a flatpak or an outside environment than it being a specific Heroic issue

Steam Recording not working with Heroic games

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