Game Bar Plug in Microphone and Try Recording Again

Gaming is i of Microsoft'south areas of focus in Windows 10, with features like a preinstalled Xbox app for connecting with Xbox I and Xbox 360 users, Game DVR for taking screenshots and recording gameplay clips, and back up for streaming Xbox Ane games to a Windows 10 computer or tablet.

Windows 10 includes a "Game bar" that users can bring up with a simple shortcut, Windows key + 1000, for quick access to gaming features. The bar features five buttons (the small panel to the right of the bar can be used to elevate it around the screen):

1. Xbox app shortcut
2. generate recording of the previous 30 seconds, à la Xbox One'due south "Xbox, tape that" — simply only if background recording is enabled (hotkey: Win + Alt + Thousand)
3. take a screenshot (hotkey: Win + Alt + PrtScn)
4. start/stop recording (hotkey: Win + Alt + R)
5. Game DVR settings

Windows 10 lets you utilise the Game bar to tape gameplay footage and take screenshots of Windows PC games. Y'all can also use it as a screen recorder, although that functionality is somewhat express. The Game bar generates screenshots in PNG format and videos in MP4 format, and drops them in the post-obit folder: C:\Users\[your username]\Videos\Captures. From at that place, y'all can exercise whatever you want with the files — upload them to YouTube, share them on Facebook and so on.

Earlier you start using the Game bar, it's a good thought to hop into the Xbox app and configure settings for the Game DVR characteristic. Y'all can enable or disable it entirely, and supplant the default keyboard shortcuts with hotkeys of your choosing. Oddly, the app doesn't let yous change the output binder for videos and screenshots. For video quality and resolution, you can select "standard" or "high" — at that place's nil more than specific than those terms, unfortunately.

Windows 10's Game DVR will record sound by default; you lot can fix the bitrate to 96, 128, 160 or 192 kbps, or turn off audio capture. And if y'all enable background recording — which uses more than arrangement resources — you can set the maximum prune length to 30 minutes, one hour or two hours.

Using the Game bar to capture a game

Recording gameplay footage is the main employ instance for the Game bar, and it works as advertised: Press Win + G to bring upward the bar, then Win + Alt + R to showtime recording and the same command to stop. If groundwork recording is enabled, you can use the Win + Alt + G control to spit out a prune of the terminal 30 seconds of gameplay.

Still, in tests with iii different games, we were unable to get the Game bar to bear witness upward if we were playing the game in fullscreen manner. Microsoft says that you can "usually still tape" footage even if the Game bar doesn't appear, only that didn't work for the states. We were only able to utilize the Game bar if we could see it, and the Game bar only popped upward when we were playing in windowed mode.

At that point, we had no problems. When yous showtime a recording, a small red box appears in the peak right corner of the screen to indicate that you're recording and display elapsed time. (You can hide or testify the timer with Win + Alt + T.) Windows spits out an MP4 file inside a second or ii of catastrophe the recording.

Y'all tin too accept a screenshot with the command Win + Alt + Print Screen. Both videos and screenshots are saved to your computer with the name of the game and a timestamp in the filename. They also bear witness upwardly in the Game DVR section of the Xbox app, from where yous can share them with your Xbox Live friends.

Using the Game bar to capture your screen

Windows x'south Game bar can be used equally a screen capture tool, a function that has required 3rd-party software until now. But it only works within an app: Pressing Win + G on your desktop or in a file folder won't practice anything. Either style, when you endeavour to bring up the Game bar for the first time in a particular app, a pop-up asks you lot to ostend that that's what yous want to practice and click a check box saying, "Yes, this is a game." (Don't feel bad about telling Windows this white lie.)

The Game bar doesn't work properly with all apps, and information technology'south unclear why. We were able to record a clip or two inside Adobe Photoshop CC 2015, merely when we tried to reproduce that, an mistake message came up maxim, "Something went wrong and we couldn't change your settings. Attempt again later." In our testing, Game DVR worked reliably in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Slack's desktop app, Notepad and Spotify.

When used in an app, the Game bar generates a clip at the resolution of the size of the app'due south window; the mouse cursor doesn't prove upward. If you resize the window or switch to a different window, Game DVR immediately stops recording. So while the feature isn't every bit helpful as Windows users might take hoped — information technology won't completely replace third-party screen capture software — information technology'll do in a pinch.

For more on Windows ten, bank check out our guide on how to customize the operating system's privacy settings to your liking.

Update: It turns out that it is possible to cull the directory where Game DVR clips are saved, but it's a system-level change, according to this tutorial from WDA_Punisher on YouTube. Yous have to modify your estimator's default "Videos" directory in the system settings.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/2015/7/31/9081715/windows-10-game-bar-how-to-record-screen-video