{"id":70557,"date":"2025-09-18T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/70557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:30:09","slug":"microsofts-new-xbox-mode-on-windows-has-leaked-for-any-handheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/70557\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Xbox full-screen experience on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/762116\/microsoft-asus-xbox-ally-handheld-release-date-compatibility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Xbox Ally devices next month<\/a>, but it looks like you won\u2019t need new hardware to get it. Windows enthusiasts have discovered a way to enable this new Xbox mode early in Windows 11, thanks to the latest 25H2 update to the operating system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The method, which involves installing a Release Preview version of Windows 11 and lots of tweaks, works on a variety of handheld gaming PCs \u2014 including MSI\u2019s Claw devices and Asus\u2019 ROG Ally range. I\u2019ve been trying it out on the original ROG Ally today, and it allows the device to ignore Asus\u2019 own software in favor of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox app at boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new Xbox full-screen experience doesn\u2019t load the full Windows desktop or a bunch of background processes, freeing up more memory for games. It\u2019s essentially not loading the Explorer shell and saving around 2GB of memory by suppressing all the unnecessary parts of a typical Windows 11 installation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You launch straight into the Xbox PC app instead, which includes all of your PC games from the Microsoft Store, Battle.net, Steam, and other storefronts. There\u2019s a Game Bar for navigating around, and a new task view that\u2019s a lot more handheld-friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You can also still swap into a Windows desktop mode, or access Windows apps and games directly in this full-screen Xbox mode. Microsoft warns that you\u2019re exiting to the Windows desktop and that you should use touch or a mouse and keyboard \u201cfor the best experience,\u201d and it\u2019s the exact same Windows experience that exists on multiple devices right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you want to try this out for yourself, it\u2019s a relatively easy process to get going. But be warned, fiddling with registry settings or the Windows Feature Store (known as Velocity) could result in system instability. If you\u2019re willing to risk some issues that might need rolling back or require a reinstall of Windows, there\u2019s a handy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ROGAlly\/comments\/1niwsfi\/guide_for_enabling_the_full_screen_experience_on\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guide on Reddit<\/a> for all the settings required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Xbox full-screen experience on the new Xbox Ally devices next month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,7894,19,17,305,5,753,82,6950,13031],"class_list":{"0":"post-70557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-windows","17":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}