SagaCapture
Records high-definition Valheim videos with automatic switching between your gameplay view and a second camera that follows your character.
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SagaCapture
Records high-definition Valheim videos with automatic switching between your gameplay view and a second camera that follows your character.
Watch SagaCapture in action on YouTube
Requirements
- Windows x64.
- An NVIDIA GPU with NVENC support and a recent NVIDIA driver.
To check your GPU, run nvidia-smi in Command Prompt and find its model in the
NVIDIA Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix.
Check that H.264 (AVC) YUV 4:2:0 is marked YES.
- FFmpeg, which is used to create the final
MP4 file. It is not bundled and must be installed separately.
Set environment variable FFMPEG_PATH to the absolute path of the FFmpeg bin
folder containing ffmpeg.exe before starting Valheim. For example, in
PowerShell:
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("FFMPEG_PATH", "C:\tools\ffmpeg\bin", "User")
Record a video
Press F8 to start or stop video recording.
Videos are saved in the SagaCapture folder inside your Windows Videos
folder. The folder is created automatically.
Settings
Open this BepInEx file for recording settings:
BepInEx/config/Landoria.SagaCapture.cfg
| Section | Setting | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Controls | CaptureModeShortcut | F8 | Starts or stops Capture Mode. |
| CinematicCameraRendering | MaximumFrameRate | SameAsGame | Sets 30, 60, or SameAsGame. The latter preserves active VSync, or limits the game and video to 60 FPS when VSync is off. |
| CinematicCameraRendering | ShowFrameRate | false | Shows the cinematic-camera FPS counter in the top-left corner. |
| Recording | Quality | Medium | Sets the recording quality to Low, Medium, High, or Highest. Lower values reduce file size and encoding load. |
| GameplayCamera | IncludeUI | true | Includes the Valheim interface in gameplay shots. |
| Director | MinimumShotDuration | 8 | Sets the minimum shot duration in seconds. |
| Director | MaximumShotDuration | 15 | Sets the maximum shot duration in seconds. |
Performance recommendation
SagaCapture uses the current game resolution. Keep the game fast enough to
maintain the selected recording rate of 30 or 60 FPS. If needed, lower the game
resolution from 4K (2160p) to 2K (1440p) or Full HD (1080p). Prefer a
native resolution when performance allows it.
Contributions welcome
CineCapture is the underlying capture project used by SagaCapture. We welcome
contributions to expand its support across more platforms, GPUs, and graphics
APIs.
See the project on GitHub:
cine-capture/CineCapture.
| Operating system | GPU | Graphics API | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Windows x64 | NVIDIA with NVENC | Direct3D 11 | ✅ Supported |
| Windows x64 | AMD | Direct3D 11 | 🙌 Contributors needed |
| Windows x64 | Intel | Direct3D 11 | 🙌 Contributors needed |
| Windows x64 | NVIDIA with NVENC | Direct3D 12 | 🙌 Contributors needed |
| Linux | NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel | Vulkan | 🙌 Contributors needed |
| macOS | Apple silicon | Metal | 🙌 Contributors needed |
Testers are also welcome. Share your feedback and results to help validate
CineCapture on different hardware and environments.
Contact
Report bugs through
GitHub Issues.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: