Autorecord was causing a lot of memory issues. Turning it off helps with memory.

imo auto record (not auto save) only happen when game finish 

won't influnce playing performance

and u can set auto record  save to game folder instead of C/my document

I dont think so:

Basically it record everything you and all other players did in that game. So it naturally has to collect all that information somewhere the moment it happens.

If those collected data stays in RAM and is only written to disk at the end of the game, is an entirely different question.

Setup all your game settings you want by default.

Exit sins.

Edit your rebellion.user.setting file.

Set IsAutoRecordOn TRUE.

Save file.

Right click on file, select properties and change file to readonly.

You may have to delete the file and redo this with version changes as sometimes the rebellion settings file needs updated after patches to access ICO.

Is there no way to toggle enable recording a match from within the game? If not I'd like to request this functionality be added in a patch; having to manually edit  a text file every time one wishes to toggle is a tad dissatisfactory.