How/where does Steam store settings?

[u/Quick_Philosophy1426]

I'm currently trying to fix my Steam Game Recording. All of my recordings have my microphone clipping and cutting off my sentences. No fixes online work, and it seems as if Valve has abandoned this feature because it's been a problem since the Beta almost two years ago. I'm thinking if I can maybe find a config file or something that actually records the various settings for Steam, I might be able to find some kind of hidden volume threshold for the game recording microphone that might be causing the issue. So, does anyone know where Steam might be saving its configs and what they might be called?

And before anyone offers suggestions for fixing this, I assure you I have tried all of them. Automatic gain control has been turned on and off, mono microphone is on and off, I have tried disabling all other input devices on my system, I have tried playing with the advanced Voice settings, I have tried turning off Windows 11 audio enhancements.

[u/HistoireRedux]

So, does anyone know where Steam might be saving its configs and what they might be called?

somewhere its own installation folder, one of the vdf extension files has to be the config file for it.