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Adam Hales

We spent a week with Xbox Mode — here is what actually works, what breaks, and what the community is saying about it

Xbox Mode promo image showing multiple Windows 11 devices with a console-style UI and a controller, highlighting availability and Forza Horizon 6.

Xbox Mode has been available on Windows 11 PCs for almost a week now, and it doesn’t seem to be going as smoothly as fans would like. So, I’d like to take this time to go over what’s working, what isn’t, and what the community has discovered so far.

Before we get into all that, I should say that, as someone who’s had an Xbox Ally X for a fair few months now, I’ve basically had access to Xbox Mode for a while. Previously known as Xbox Fullscreen Experience, it’s essentially the Xbox app running in a forced full-screen environment, with reduced background tasks designed to help improve performance.

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