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butchthedoggy
10 years ago

[PC] XBox Game DVR recording issues

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 on my computer and was gladly surprised to find out the XBox Game DVR could record essentially unlimited footage (as opposed to free bandicam's 10 minute limit), recorded it in 1080p, and best of all, it barely dropped the frame rate on my computer when I recorded (as opposed to bandicam free, which dropped my FPS when in game and recording by 5-7FPS). For example, this was recorded on my laptop using the XBox Game DVR.

Now, for some reason, when I try to record footage, as seen in this picture, a weird red box pops up that I have never seen before when recording. It pops up as soon as I hit the record button on the XBox app, and no matter how long I want to record for/how long it is between when I start and stop recording, it only captures 20-30 seconds of footage. This only started doing this yesterday, and it was working perfectly two days ago. This only happens on Battlefront (of course.... :'( ) because I tested it out on Civ V and it worked perfectly. This leads me to the conclusion that this is completely and solely the fault of the game, and not my computer or the XBox app.

Does anyone know what's going on here and/or how I could fix it?

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  • butchthedoggy's avatar
    butchthedoggy
    10 years ago

    I play on a laptop, so I can't really follow those instructions exactly, but I did the computer version of those instructions and no luck.

  • Faux_Grey's avatar
    Faux_Grey
    10 years ago

    Can't say I've ever used that Xbox game DVR (didn't even know such a thing existed)

    (I use MSI afterburner to record gameplay)

    But that red box looks awful like an overlay telling you that your microphone is disabled in some way.

    With regards to the 30 second failure, could you not be running out of RAM.

    A quick google leads me to the fact that this Xbox app has a feature that will constantly record the last 30 seconds of gameplay to a buffer, then when you press the record key, it flushes the buffer to disk and does nothing more. This feature is called "record that" (apparently)

    I'd check your start/stop record keybindings to make sure they arent mixed up with the "record that" hotkey.

  • butchthedoggy's avatar
    butchthedoggy
    10 years ago

    Nope, I'm using default keybindings.  

    I know for a fact I'm not running out of RAM because up until Jan 1 the XBox Game DVR was working perfectly fine. 

    The reason why I point out the red box is because before Jan 1 it never showed that (and I'm using Jan 1 here because this is the last date I know it was working).

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