Xbox Game Bar notifications Not Showing While Playing Fullscreen Games.

Hey Kathy,

Four things:

1. I used to record using the xbox gamebar, and it worked perfectly, why does it not work now?

2. I do not think I can choose fullscreen borderless in Minecraft (if I can please tell me how to)

3. I don't even think I know what fullscreen borderless is, unless it is when the taskbar and the menu bar on the top show (which can be done using the F11 key in Minecraft Java Edition)

4. If putting my Minecraft Java Edition into F11 mode is fullscreen borderless, then the recording works, but I hate seeing the taskbar and menu bar while playing my video games

Thanks

Hi alkhe

Thank you for posting on the Xbox forums. I'd be happy to help troubleshoot the issue. In order to do so, can you please explain in more detail what happens when you open the game bar? The Xbox game bar is an overlay that should appear over the game while
it is in fullscreen. Are you saying that when you press Win + G while the game is running in fullscreen mode, that the Game Bar opens but closes the game? Does the game crash completely or does it just minimize the window?

Please answer those questions for us and add any other information that would be helpful and we will be happy to further troubleshoot the issue.

Hi,

What games are crashing? Some, or all of them?

Games from the Windows Store (or Game Pass) either have Fullscreen Optimization enabled by default or run in Windowed Borderless mode which shouldn't cause games to crash when attempting to ALT+TAB.

You can check whether Fullscreen Optimizations are enabled or not by opening the Xbox Game Bar via Win+G. If you are running in Fullscreen Exclusive, then the display brightness may be flicker. If you are in Fullscreen Optimizations, the Xbox Game Bar should pop up as an overlay.

Sounds more like a graphics driver issue to me.

Windows Apps can not have Fullscreen Optimization disabled as it's not possible to access their exe file to disable them.

Hi Shoxrux

Can you check the following settings

In the game bar, hit the cog > Capturing > tick the boxes for 'Record in the background while I'm playing a game' & 'Show microphone recording notifications'

Another thing to check is what shortcut is mapped to the record shortcut via Shortcuts

Hello btwziko,

Thank you for the response and for sharing the screenshot.

You can share here a screen recording as long as your personal information is concealed. However, for this concern, you do not have to share a screen recording as the Xbox Game Bar have already written the warning. The game's settings will not support the Xbox Game Bar to record your game play not as long as you switch into full screen borderless in your video options. As we recall you mentioned the Xbox Game Bar to be working on Windowed Fullscreen. It is by default for this game to record it in such settings. There are games however, you can play on full screen and there are others on Windowed Fullscreen.

Should you need Xbox Game Bar to be working on Fullscreen gameplay for Minecraft or specific games. Please send out feedback to both Team Xbox and the game support (Mojang Support for Minecraft).

On Xbox Game Bar, go to settings and look for feature. Please specify what edition you are playing like you have mention here: Xbox Game Bar to be available for Minecraft Java in full screen mode.

On this link for Minecraft Feedback (New post – Minecraft Feedback), please provide the same details you have mention on Xbox Game Bar.

We appreciate you have brought this to our attention. Please send feedback to request Xbox Game Bar to record game play on the fullscreen mode. We hope this will be available in the future update of Minecraft Java Edition.

If you have further concerns kindly create a new thread using this link - Create a new question or start a discussion.

Regards,