Xbox game bar not working - can't play Sea of Thieves

Maybe it's a Sea of Thieves setting as I haven't seen anything yet in Xbox Game Bar that uses SHIFT+F. Unfortunately I don't play Sea of Thieves on PC so I can't check that to confirm for you.

After uninstalling and reinstalling Sea of Thieves and the Xbox Game Bar many times, I am able to invite and accept invites on Sea of Thieves Insider through the Game Bar. I am able to send invites from the Game Bar for Sea of Thieves. However, when I receive an invite or try to join in on Sea of Thieves, I still have the same problem. Sea of Thieves and Sea of Thieves Insider are two different builds. There must be a file somewhere on my computer that is not being deleted or uninstalled and it's not allowing me to accept these invites on just Sea of Thieves. I don't know how to find this file.

That option is not there for Sea of Thieves when I launch it. I do see the option for other programs like Discord or Firefox, but when I open the game bar while focused on Sea of Thieves, I just see "Sea of Thieves" with no option to remember it is a game checked or unchecked.

You are correct that I am on the steam version of Sea of Thieves. Game bar does detect that I am playing this.

I invite or join games by using the gamebar's Xbox Social window, right click the person, select Join game.

If you're trying to play the Xbox Insider version of Sea of Thieves, then be aware that this was the closed Beta before the game launched.

Unless they added an Insider Version after I checked two days ago, you can't play that version, as the servers don't accept the Sea of Thieves Beta client anymore.

You will have to buy the actual game, or have an active Game Pass subscription to be able to play Sea of Thieves.

No, none. You really won't listen.

It is not a connection issue. It is an issue where GAME BAR does not properly resolve the steam link. This is a game bar issue, probably in the registry. Unlike my former windows 10 machine, there is no xboxlive registry entry for sea of thieves, and I do not know why this is.

The accounts are linked. The game works. The game bar works. Everything works, except this message pops up when I try to use game bar to join game or accept an invite. I can play Sea of Thieves online via xbox services on steam. THAT WORKS. But the game bar does not resolve join/accept protocols properly.

If you are not equipped to troubleshoot this level of technical issue, GET SOMEONE ELSE!

PS. on windows 11 support for Xbox Console Companion is ending THIS MONTH. It is already delisted from the main store. Everything connection wise is fine and you keep insisting it is a connection issue.