I cant join an Xbox Game Bar party. Please help

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Hello KristianWalker2,

We appreciate for your patience.

WE know that your problem is more complicated that our initial suggested troubleshooting steps did not work well.

Let's try another set of troubleshooting steps and see if this work.

Solution 2: Reset Windows 10 store & Xbox app.

1. Open Settings.

2. Go to Apps -> Apps & features.

3. Look for Microsoft Store/Xbox App and click it on the right side.

4. The advanced options link will appear. Click it

5. Next, click on the Reset button to reset Microsoft Store/Xbox App to the default setting.



Solution 3: Try reinstalling the Gaming Services package on your Windows 10 device:

1. Right-click the Start button in the lower-left corner of the main screen, and then select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

2. In the Administrator: Windows PowerShell screen, type the following command and press Enter:

Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers

3. Wait for the process to finish and then restart the PC and try again.



Solution 4: Play games offline on Windows 10 using Offline mode; this error could also be attributed to issues with the Microsoft store not recognizing your entitlement to the game. Would you please click on this link Play games offline on Windows 10 using Offline mode | Xbox Support. Then scroll down and click on the drop-down arrow and look at the steps for How to enable offline play on your device.

You may also check this article for some fixes. Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows | Xbox Support.





We hope it worked out well for you. If not, please reply back to this forum to let us know so we could find other options to resolve the problem.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



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Microsoft Community

1. I'm on windows 10 version 22H2

2. Yes I'm connected to Xbox live

3. It started yesterday

4. No not really

I tried the troubleshooting steps already

Hello KristianWalker2,

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

We understand that you cannot join party through your Xbox Game Bar.

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? (Search for WINVER in Windows search to see this)
   
2. Are you connected to Xbox live? You can check this here. Xbox Status | Xbox Support
   
3. When did the issue start?
   
4. Did you have activity or changes made before the issue appeared?
   

These above questions would help us provide the necessary information. Once we have gathered all the information, we will formulate the viable solution to help you with your case.

For the meantime, we suggest this troubleshooting steps, let's see if it will work for you.

First make sure that your device, system drivers, and apps are all updated to the latest version. Update Windows - Microsoft Support





Then follow the steps below.

Solution 1: Reset Windows 10 store & Xbox app.

1. Open Settings.

2. Go to Apps -> Apps & features.

3. Look for Microsoft Store/Xbox App and click it on the right side.

4. The advanced options link will appear. Click it

5. Next, click on the Reset button to reset Microsoft Store/Xbox App to the default setting.



Solution 2: Try reinstalling the Gaming Services package on your Windows 10 device:

1. Right-click the Start button in the lower-left corner of the main screen, and then select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

2. In the Administrator: Windows PowerShell screen, type the following command and press Enter:

Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers

3. Wait for the process to finish and then restart the PC and try again.



Solution 3: Play games offline on Windows 10 using Offline mode; this error could also be attributed to issues with the Microsoft store not recognizing your entitlement to the game. Would you please click on this link Play games offline on Windows 10 using Offline mode | Xbox Support. Then scroll down and click on the drop-down arrow and look at the steps for How to enable offline play on your device

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,



Moderator

Microsoft Community

Anytime i try to start or join a party on the xbox console companion app it just has a loading symbol next to my mouse for a few seconds and then the app completely crashes and now i just cant join partys anymore without the app crashing.

The same thing also happens with the xbox game bar