Windows 10: GameDVR and Broadcast Consume RAM too much

I found that GameDVR and Broadcast user services with the name svchost.exe Service Host: GameDVR and Broadcast User Service_987b0 eats up a lot of the remaining RAM. It will even take up more than 6GB of RAM when I run a game or even Idle. I have even turned off the "Record What Happend" feature in the Capture Settings but the results did not change.

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windows broadcasting

Hi ToddBrooks,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Could you please help me with the below questions:

• How are you broadcasting?
  
• Are you receiving any error code along with the error message?
  
• Which version of Windows you are using? (To check, type: winver in start menu and hit enter.)
  

You can check if the Broadcast option is enabled under Settings. To do so, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Click on the Settings icon from the start menu.
   
2. Click on Gaming > Click on
   Game bar.
3. In the right pane, turn on the slider under “Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar”.
   

I suggest you to follow the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the Microsoft article on ‘Why
can't I broadcast my game?’ andplease provide a screenshot of the window, so that we can have a better understanding on this issue. Follow the steps mentioned in the
screenshot
posted by Shawn ‘Cmdr’ Keene on Oct 2, 2015 to post the screenshot.

If you need further assistance, please respond to the above questions, so that we can narrow down the issue.

Hope it helps.

Roohi Taj S

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

GameDVR and Broadcast User Service

This blasted process spikes my GPU to 100% usage for no reason, resulting in crashes. I followed some advice to turn it off from a different post on this site, but I couldn’t complete the last step, Remove-AppxPackage. I kept getting the error

“Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay : The term ‘Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay |

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Here’s the advice I followed that got me to this point:

Hi,
I'm Pedro A, Independent Advisor

GameDVR is a process that by default always runs in the background on Windows.

You can try to disable it completely with this procedure.

Let's try this other procedure:

Press Windows + R, type: regedit
and ok to open the "Registry Editor"

- Back up the Windows registry:

Right click on "Computer" and select "Export", select a location and name the backup

wait for the backup to complete

- Then navigate the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR

In the right-hand pane, look for "AppCaptureEnabled" and double click on it, if the DWORD value data is 0, set it to 1 and save it.

*If you didn’t find "AppCaptureEnabled" then right click on GameDVR > New > DWORD 32-bit value name it “AppCaptureEnabled“ and set value data to 1

- Now, in Registry Editor navigate to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore

In the right-hand pane, look for "GameDVR_Enabled"
Double click on it, and check the "Value data" .
change it to 0, click OK to save.

restart your Windows

Now, Right-click Start and select the Windows Terminal (Admin) option that’s on the Win+X menu

Input this command within the Windows PowerShell tab:

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

Press the Return key to remove the Game Bar.

Wait for the uninstall process to finish before closing Windows Terminal.

restart your Windows

 

GameDVR and Broadcast User Service

Hi CT. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Here are reasons this happens and what to do about it:

https://www.howtogeek.com/325292/what-is-broadc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/7yu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f4y...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f9h...





Report back results for each step so I know what else to suggest.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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