How to Upload Pictures From Game Bar

Gaming is 1 of Microsoft'southward areas of focus in Windows x, with features similar a preinstalled Xbox app for connecting with Xbox One and Xbox 360 users, Game DVR for taking screenshots and recording gameplay clips, and support for streaming Xbox One games to a Windows ten calculator or tablet.

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

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

Windows x lets you use the Game bar to tape gameplay footage and have screenshots of Windows PC games. You tin too use it as a screen recorder, although that functionality is somewhat limited. The Game bar generates screenshots in PNG format and videos in MP4 format, and drops them in the following folder: C:\Users\[your username]\Videos\Captures. From there, you lot can do any you want with the files — upload them to YouTube, share them on Facebook and so on.

Before you start using the Game bar, it's a adept idea to hop into the Xbox app and configure settings for the Game DVR feature. You lot can enable or disable it entirely, and supervene upon the default keyboard shortcuts with hotkeys of your choosing. Oddly, the app doesn't permit you change the output folder for videos and screenshots. For video quality and resolution, yous tin select "standard" or "high" — at that place's nothing more specific than those terms, unfortunately.

Windows x'south Game DVR will tape audio by default; you lot can set the bitrate to 96, 128, 160 or 192 kbps, or turn off audio capture. And if you enable background recording — which uses more than system resources — you can set the maximum clip length to 30 minutes, one 60 minutes or two hours.

Using the Game bar to capture a game

Recording gameplay footage is the master employ case for the Game bar, and information technology works equally advertised: Printing Win + G to bring upwards the bar, then Win + Alt + R to beginning recording and the same command to finish. If groundwork recording is enabled, you lot can use the Win + Alt + G command to spit out a clip of the last xxx seconds of gameplay.

Notwithstanding, in tests with three different games, we were unable to go the Game bar to testify upward if we were playing the game in fullscreen fashion. Microsoft says that y'all can "usually still record" footage even if the Game bar doesn't announced, but that didn't work for us. Nosotros were but able to utilize the Game bar if nosotros could see it, and the Game bar only popped up when nosotros were playing in windowed mode.

At that point, we had no issues. When you start a recording, a modest red box appears in the top correct corner of the screen to bespeak that you're recording and display elapsed time. (You tin can hide or show the timer with Win + Alt + T.) Windows spits out an MP4 file inside a 2nd or 2 of ending the recording.

You lot can also take a screenshot with the command Win + Alt + Print Screen. Both videos and screenshots are saved to your calculator with the proper noun of the game and a timestamp in the filename. They also bear witness upward in the Game DVR section of the Xbox app, from where you tin can share them with your Xbox Alive friends.

Using the Game bar to capture your screen

Windows ten's Game bar can be used as a screen capture tool, a function that has required third-party software until now. But it but works within an app: Pressing Win + G on your desktop or in a file folder won't do annihilation. Either way, when you endeavour to bring up the Game bar for the commencement time in a item app, a pop-upward asks you to confirm that that'southward what you desire to do and click a cheque box proverb, "Aye, this is a game." (Don't feel bad virtually telling Windows this white lie.)

The Game bar doesn't piece of work properly with all apps, and information technology'due south unclear why. We were able to record a prune or ii inside Adobe Photoshop CC 2015, but when we tried to reproduce that, an error bulletin came up maxim, "Something went wrong and we couldn't alter your settings. Endeavour again later." In our testing, Game DVR worked reliably in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Slack'south 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's window; the mouse cursor doesn't testify up. If you resize the window or switch to a different window, Game DVR immediately stops recording. And so while the characteristic isn't as helpful as Windows users might accept hoped — it won't completely replace third-party screen capture software — it'll do in a pinch.

For more on Windows 10, check out our guide on how to customize the operating system's privacy settings to your liking.

Update: It turns out that information technology is possible to cull the directory where Game DVR clips are saved, but information technology'due south a system-level change, according to this tutorial from WDA_Punisher on YouTube. You have to alter your computer'southward 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