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Note

Certain games in full-screen mode prevent the Game Bar from appearing. If that’s your situation,
you can start and stop broadcasting without the Game Bar: Press +Alt+B. You can also press
+Alt+W to hide or show the live camera view during your broadcast.

After you confirm a couple of permission screens, a setup console now
appears. Double-check these parameters:

Stream window. What do you want the world to see? Just the
game (“Game”), or the entire Windows screen (“Desktop”), which
could be useful if you intend to switch apps mid-broadcast, or to

show somebody activity in File Explorer?

Webcam. Which corner of the screen should hold the live camera

view of your face as you play and talk?

The preview shows how your broadcast will appear to the world. If you

approve, choose “Start broadcast.”

Everything you’re doing is now visible to anyone who has joined your
Mixer.com channel, which Windows creates automatically. (It’s named after

your Xbox Live name.) Your action also appears on your Xbox Live
activity feed, so your Xbox friends can admire it using their game consoles.

Tip

Obviously, it’s no fun to broadcast your gaming magnificence if nobody’s watching. To spread the
word, send around the web address of your Mixer channel. (Select “Your channel” in the
Broadcast setup window.) If your Xbox gamertag (name) is Killmaster2003, for example, then
your Mixer page’s address is mixer.com/killmaster2003. Anyone who goes to that page can watch
you play and can comment in real time.

A small window showing your broadcast appears as you play; at the top, a
thin control bar offers buttons for pausing the broadcast, moving the

camera’s inset, turning off the camera or microphone, switching to the chat