How can I change the resolution of my Xbox gameplay on my PC using the game bar?

Are you trying to record gameplay using Game Bar while streaming you Xbox to PC?

Hi josef,

Yeah as i said, im on windows 10. i can change my laptop resolution but this just means there is 2 huge black bars on the laptop itself. so ideally if i could record the game in my normal resolution, would be best, cheers

Looking up the specs of your laptop, it almost certainly lacks dedicated capture hardware. Most likely your laptop is reducing the game resolution in order to use that power to compress the video.

Xbox capture goes directly from the frame buffer, so whatever the game is running at is what you get

Thanks for the feedback Peter, and sorry. My bad

Which resolution your PC has?

By the way, is this the first time you use the game bar?

Or the issue started happening recently?

If it's the second, do you know if your windows system received an update?

Your Huawei matebook laptop has both dedicated and integrated GPU?

In the meantime try reinstalling game bar:

Right-click on the Start button and select Windows PowerShell (Admin) from the pop-up menu.

Copy and paste the following command in PowerShell and hit Enter to uninstall the Game Bar from your system.

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

Restart your PC and now head over to Microsoft Store and search for Xbox Game Bar and try testing again

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today Peter

May I know if you recording quality is set to high? Or which one are you using?
May I know if you tried changing the whole screen resolution to see if the issue persists?

I'll be waiting for your reply, greetings from another Microsoft user