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Xbox Gamebar insanely broken/buggy on Windows 11

Windows 11

I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in November of 2023, ever since this upgrade, Xbox Gamebar has been very buggy. The bugs consist of crashes, party issues (people "disconnecting", no input or output audio, party join popups being delayed by over 20 seconds), cursor being identified in the wrong place (eg. I have my xbox chats in the bottom right, profile top right, while hovering over the message box, gamebar thinks im hovering over my profile at the top right), and getting this error occasionally: "XboxPartyChatHost.exe - System Error : The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application."

Xbox Gamebar also no longer has a category in the settings app; this is a problem for me as I am not able to disable background recording while playing games, and severely impacts the performance of my computer when Gamebar is running.

Is there any way to fix these issues?

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That's Windows 11 bug. you'd reinstall Xbox Gamebar app package. try this in PowerShall (Administrator): Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay*" | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers then type this: Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay* -AllUsers |Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)₩AppXManifest.xml"} or you can search Xbox Gamebar ib MS Store by the way, you can also disable game recording feature without remove it: reg.exe DEL "HKCU₩System₩GameConfigStore" /v GameDVR_Enabled