Several Game Bar widgets pop up with options for capturing screenshots, controlling your video and audio, and viewing your Xbox social account. You can start a recording from most applications and windows, but you can't kick off a capture from the Windows desktop, File Explorer, or certain Windows apps such as Weather. To change any of the keyboard shortcuts, you'll need to go through the settings in the Xbox Game Bar app itself. In Windows 11, go to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and enable Open Xbox Game Bar using this button as a controller to use an Xbox gamepad to activate the Game Bar. In Windows 10, go to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and turn on the switch for Enable Xbox Game Bar. You can also enable Open Xbox Game Bar using this button on a controller to trigger the Game Bar through the Xbox button on an Xbox controller (or Xbox 360 controller with the right driver).įrom this screen, you can also change any of the default keyboard shortcuts associated with opening the Game Bar, taking a screenshot, and recording a video.
When you launch OBS for the first time, if you haven't already, you will be asked whether you want to optimize it for streaming or recording only. However, you can also use OBS to record the entire screen in Windows 10 or Windows 11 and save it as an MP4 file, without ever streaming what you do.ġ. OBS Studio is very popular in the game streaming community because it's free and great at broadcasting games out to Twitch and other sites. To capture your entire desktop and all the windows on it with a full suite of options, you need a third-party app and, while there are many, we like OBS Studio for this purpose. Snipping Tool can capture more but it doesn't support audio and it is rather feature-limited.
The biggest drawback to using the Xbox Gamebar to screen record Windows is that it can only work with one app at a time and will not show the desktop or File Explorer. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Recording the Whole Screen with OBS Studio
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