Windows 10 Windows Game Bar - how to record sound output from the game but NOT ambient sound from the built-in PC microphone?

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Kelev77

Hi,


There MUST be a way to do this because I had it working for about one day and then it mysteriously stopped.


As it stands, when I start recording gameplay, the sound seems to be picked up by the built-in mic in the PC, which means it is recording both the game sound and any sounds in the room (people talking, TV in the background, whatever). I want it to record ONLY the sound output from the game.


I was able to kludge-fix this by going to the Control Panel and disabling the microphone. This seemed to work - briefly. Then, all of a sudden, the recordings started coming out totally silent. The only way to get any sound was to re-enable the microphone, which got both the game sound and the ambient mic pickup.


I tried switching the enabled recording device from the microphone to "Stereo Mix" in the Sound Control Panel but this led to an even weirder result - almost imperceptibly quiet, tinny sound being picked up, but not completely mute.


Can anybody help? The only prior Q&As I could find on this topic were from people who WANTED the mic to pick up their voices. I'm trying to do the opposite, picking up the sound outputted by the game only, and not any voices in the room.


Thank you

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