Problems with Xbox app on Windows 11

the xbox companion app on windows 11 no longer streams xbox, this function has now been shifted to the xbox app for windows 11.

Hello adrianas jan,

I am sorry to hear you are experiencing issues regarding games being unable to launch.

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Hi, I've just had this same issue, and with no idea why this error popped up, I contacted Microsoft support and a support agent got the app to work for me, I followed these steps.

How to fix the error in the Xbox app when you can’t install or choose a drive or different drive from where you’d like to download/install a game



Open: - “registry editor” and go to this path: -



Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\xinputhid



and delete the two folders: - “parameters” – “state” -

now close regedit, and open up the "settings app", and go to "app's" - "installed apps" - "search apps" - enter "xbox" - now click on the three dots and click on "advanced options" - now click on "terminate" now once that's done click on "repair" - once that's done - click on "reset" - open the xbox app again and see if you can now select which drive to install you're game onto, apprarently this is a bug within Windows 11.

If you don't want to follow these steps contact Microsoft through windows its self - click search and type in "get help"

Hi TristanHolley! My name is Ricardo an independent advisor ready to help you with this situation!

Could you please share a screenshot of the error message and on which games does this happens?

In the meantime you could try the options available here

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/games-apps/...

Please on file explorer, activate the option to see hidden files, it would be under the View option menu at the top of any explorer window

Once you do that corroborate that you have a ".GamingRoot" file on any of your drives, if you don't have one that's the reason for this, you will be able to install games that don't support changing the file path but not the ones that do

If you deleted the file, you need to restore that file It should be on your recycle bin, or you can create a new file text on the same location it was previously, only works in the same location that was previously, then you need to remove the extension of the file so it must be just ".GamingRoot", once you do that you try to install the game on that drive, once it starts you can cancel and copy that file to any other drive where you wanna set a path for installations.

Another reason could be that you try to change the drive to a different one but that drive isn't the one you set for installations outside the Windowsapp folder, you need to change or copy the same file to that drive for it to work