How do you capture the game bar party overlay in OBS?

Use OBS to record and set as display capture, gamebar will only capture application window and it ignores a lot of overlays, CAD apparently loves to draw elements onto overlay which some screen recorders ignore or cannot record. OBS will capture most but will also miss some.

So the Game Bar will focus on one app at a time, and if you switch away from that, it still retains focus for that app. They have disabled recording for the desktop or File Explorer for a number of reasons, so if you wanted to do that you would need a
third party app like Elgato's Game Capture, OBS, X-Split, etc.

Streamlabs, OBS or others that are used when you use a capture device hooked up to a pc. A few easy to go ones are Bebo and Streamlabs OBS. I believe both have pre made overlays that you can use until you can make your own.

Yes, I do stream with my Husband. We co- stream. We are xbox players but use OBS and capture card (elgato HD 60) We have been streaming on twitch for 2 years now. I like using the capture card and OBS because I feel I can grant followers & subs the opportunity
to have recognition on the screen and they seem to love it. Plus you get to add a little more of you into your overlay & logo.

Hello Jr360Games,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.



We understand that you are looking to record Xbox Game Bar party chat on a separate audio track using OBS. There could be things to be consider if the separating audio track from a game clip of recorded on Xbox Game Bar would be released. However, if you would like to request such feature, you may submit one to the Team Xbox: Xbox Support.



Regarding your question about using Xbox Game Bar outside of overlay mode, unfortunately, it is not possible to use Xbox Game Bar without it being in overlay mode. The overlay mode is designed to provide quick access to Xbox Game Bar features while you are playing a game.



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