Gamebar Stops Recordings Random Times

go to settings, gaming and set a keyboard shortcut to start and stop recording, then while in game fullscreen use the key combo to start and stop recording.

i have alt + z for start and stop.

some games are not compatible with gamebar overlay so the solution is how i stated above.

Hi Greg Collinsworth,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand the inconvenience caused. As per description, you encountered issue recording gameplay using Xbox gamebar. and you cannot unmute microphone.

Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern. However, before we proceed, we would like to ask few questions about it.

1. What is the current version and edition of Windows Installed?
   
2. What troubleshooting steps have you done?
   
3. Recent activity or changes made before the issue appeared?
   

We would suggest you to try troubleshooting Game Bar and see if that helps. Refer the article Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows 10



In addition, you can also check if the Microphone for game bar is enabled under privacy settings.

1. Go to Settings (press Windows + I key together) > Privacy.
   
2. On the left hand pane scroll down and look for Microphone.
   
3. Toggle Allow apps to access Microphone to ON.
   
4. Under Choose which Microsoft Store app can access your Microphone toggle Xbox game bar to ON.
   
5. Restart the game bar.
   

Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



Xbox Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community

The Windows Gamebar can only record one Window at a time or one full screen game at a time.

To record 'Many Windows' or the Windows Desktop will require a third party software application.

Hi,

Sorry but the video, as previously mentioned, will be lost now. The reason being is that the video container format Gamebar uses must finalise the file to complete the recording. This finalising process can only completed when the video recording is stopped in the app.

Should the computer crash or lockup for some reason and stop the recording, then the recorded file won't be finalised and is, unfortunately, lost.

I understand some third party recording applications such as OBS use different methods to record and may not be so susceptible to such issues.

gamebar only records the main screen,