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Tip

While you’re recording, a tiny version of the Game Bar floats on your screen. It contains a Stop
Recording button and a microphone On/Off button. It also shows how long you’ve been
recording.

UP TO SPEED GAME SETTINGS

If you choose → → Gaming, a wealth of options awaits for your
game-playing pleasure. The tabs include these:

Game Bar. The Game Bar is a floating toolbar intended for recording
game activity (or any screen activity). On this screen, you turn the
feature on and off, and set up keyboard shortcuts for starting and
stopping recordings, capturing screenshots, and adjusting microphone

and start/stop keystrokes for game broadcasting.

Captures. Suppose you use the Game Bar to record some screen
videos. Where do you want Windows to put them? What audio and

video quality do you want them to have? At what volume level? Here’s
where you answer those questions.

Game Mode dedicates as much of your PC’s power as possible to the

game you’re playing, so you get smooth animation and fast response.
Here’s the on/off switch. (See “Xbox”.)

Xbox Networking. A page of stats about your internet speed and

bandwidth—critical numbers for anyone in the business of streaming
game video to the internet.

Start broadcasting is described next. Keyboard shortcut:

+Alt+B.

And how do you find your recordings? They’re in your Videos → Captures

folder, each named after the app, the time, and the date. (They also appear
in the Xbox One app; select the Captures icon, the sixth icon down).