

OBS Studio is very popular in the game streaming community because it's free and great at broadcasting games out to Twitch and other sites. To capture your entire desktop and all the windows on it with a full suite of options, you need a third-party app and, while there are many, we like OBS Studio for this purpose. Snipping Tool can capture more but it doesn't support audio and it is rather feature-limited. The biggest drawback to using the Xbox Gamebar to screen record Windows is that it can only work with one app at a time and will not show the desktop or File Explorer.


Video quality: With the “Standard” video quality of the Game Bar enabled, the tool adapts to the quality you have set in the game or program – up to 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixels).Video frame rate: Specify whether you want to record at up to 30 or up to 60 FPS (frames per second).You can adjust the sound quality (96-192 KBit/s) and regulate the recording volume of the microphone and system sound. Capture audio when recording a game: If you want the sound of the game or program you are recording to be captured as well, you must enable this option.recording length: Choose between 30 minutes and 4 hours for the maximum length of a screen recording in Windows 11. A recording of the last 30 seconds (optionally also up to 10 minutes) is only saved in the recording folder via a key combination. Record what happened: If you activate this function, the recording function of the Xbox Game Bar runs in the background without creating a clip.You can now define the storage location of the video clips and adjust the following recording settings:
