azornes/xboxgamebardesktopbypass

Bypass the Xbox Game Bar to enable recording of a selected part of the desktop screen using AutoHotkey and Magnifixer.

XboxGameBarDesktopBypass

For those who want to use the Xbox Game Bar and record a selected part of the screen.

Installation

1. Download and install Magnifixer (script tested vith ver. 10.2) https://www.fileeagle.com/pl/software/2685/Magnifixer/
2. If you still don't have autohotkey, download and install https://www.autohotkey.com/download/
3. When you install Magnifixer, you need to change the path to it in the script (PathToMagnifixer := "Path\to\your\program\Magnifixer.exe")
4. Run Magnifixer and change the options to match those in the following image.

How to Run

• F1 ‎ ‎ ‎- Run script and select part of the screen
• F12 - Panic button

Bugs:

• Sometimes XboxGameBar doesn't detect Magnifixer, so if this happens, try again by closing Magnifixer (press F4 or manually) and press again F1

Extra

• If you want the best possible recording quality settings change the registers with BetterQualityNvidiaCapture.reg

xboxgamebardesktopbypass's Issues

The link address to download is **wrong** !!

The correct link address to donwload the Magnifixer 10.2 is https://www.fileeagle.com/software/2685/Magnifixer/ and not
https://www.fileeagle.com/pl/software/2685/Magnifixer/ like is in initial page https://github.com/Azornes/XboxGameBarDesktopBypass