


Below the switch is a drop-down menu to change the amount of time to save. It’s advisable only to enable this when necessary as it does have an impact on game performance and could make gameplay choppy if your machine doesn’t have enough spare processing power. Scroll down the list of options until you ‘Record in the background while I am playing a game’.

One you might want to change immediately is the screenshot shortcut, especially if you own a Surface tablet which has no PrtScn button. You can also customise the shortcuts to your liking. There are lots of settings, but the first is an on/off toggle for Game DVR. Just type Xbox in Windows 10’s search box in the taskbar to launch the app. To enable it, launch the Xbox app and click on the settings icon at the bottom of the left-hand menu. Tapping it when it’s live automatically saves the last 30 seconds of gameplay, just as with the Xbox One. 1 Windows 10 Xbox Game bar is not working1.1 Check Game Bar and Game Mode are enabled1.2 Adjust Game DVR settings1.3 Tweak Registry Settings1.4 Reset the Xbox app1.5 Reinstall the Xbox app Check Game Bar and Game Mode are enabled Open settings -> Gaming -> Game bar. You’ll notice that one of the icons on the Game Bar is greyed out – the Game DVR icon.
