

I sometimes forget that I’m recording content, so I always have the timer visible in the top right corner as well, with the Win + Alt + T shortcut, which displays a small icon. Now what I end up doing is simply hitting Win + Alt + R when I launch a new game, and that will start recording the game for me. I have a difficult time remembering shortcuts, so I snipped them out and have them posted in a OneNote page which is always up on my screen. This is found in your Programs folder, and I just get to it from my Start Menu: Don’t ask me, I just work here. In fact, if you typed in “Game DVR”, it wouldn’t even show the application.

To make any sort of changes or access the shortcuts for the Game DVR, you actually need to go to the Xbox app, which is built into Windows 10. You should also know that this can record any application, and not just games. I generally use a tool like Camtasia for my recording and editing, especially outside of gaming, but Windows 10 now has a recording tool built into the OS called Game DVR, so I wanted to highlight that for you. So I play a lot of games (Heroes of the Storm!) and I frequently want to record what I’m doing, so that I can provide commentary for others, but also so that I can learn from my mistakes.
