Configure Game DVR strings (Service Configuration)

This topic provides procedures for adding and changing Game DVR strings in the service configuration for a title.

For an overall introduction to the various elements of the service configuration, see Introducing Service Configuration.

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What is a Game DVR string?

Game DVR strings are text strings associated with each of the gameplay video clips that you define for your title. Each game clip has one Game DVR string.

For example, you might define one game clip that is triggered when a player defeats their twentieth Blue Dragon, and another that is triggered when the player successfully completes Level 5. The Game DVR string for the former game clip might be “Your 20th Blue Dragon!”; the one for the latter might be “You finished Level 5!” (The maximum number of characters allowed in a Game DVR string, including blank spaces, is 22.)

Create a Game DVR string

To create a new Game DVR string

  1. On the Service Configuration Tasks page for the product instance, or from the left-hand menu, click Game DVR.
  2. On the Game DVR page, if the Add Game DVR String dialog box is not already displayed, click New. In the Add Game DVR String dialog box, in the Display Game DVR String field, enter the text string that you want.
    The maximum number of characters allowed in a Game DVR string-including blank spaces-is 22.
  3. When you have the string the way that you want it, click Add Game DVR String to create the string and close the dialog box.
  4. Your new string is now listed on the Game DVR page.

Change a game DVR string

Important

After a title passes Final Certification, existing game DVR strings in that title can no longer be changed or deleted.

To make changes to an existing game DVR string:

  1. On the Game DVR Strings page, under Game DVR Strings, click the Edit icon for the game DVR string that you want to make changes to.
  2. In the Edit Game DVR String dialog box, make the changes that you want.
  3. When all of the options are the way that you want them, click Save Game DVR String, and then click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the dialog box.

Delete a game DVR string

Important

After a title passes Final Certification, existing game DVR strings in that title can no longer be changed or deleted.

To delete an existing game DVR string:

  1. On the Game DVR Strings page, under Game DVR Strings, click the Delete icon for the game DVR string that you want to delete.
  2. In the Delete Game DVR String dialog box, confirm the deletion by clicking Delete.

    Important Deletion of a game DVR string is a permanent action and can’t be undone or reversed.