You might have noticed that the Xbox One-to-PC streaming currently on offer via Windows 10…doesn’t always look as good as you might have hoped. Turns out there’s sometimes a reason for that. And, as luck would have it, a workaround as well.
Users are finding that in many circumstances, even when their internet+wifi speed should be fast enough, their streaming quality is being locked at “high”, with the more desirable “very high” setting greyed out and inaccessible.
Reddit user OomaThurman is one of the people to have found a workaround, though, which is spelled out in greater detail in this NeoGAF thread. All it takes is the editing of an Xbox App file in Notepad. With the app closed, do this:
Step 1: Open File Explorer, and copy/paste this location:
C:Users%USERNAME%AppDataLocalPackages
Step 2: Scroll down and open the folder that starts with “Microsoft.XboxApp…”
Step 3: Open the folder LocalState
Step 4: Right click the file called “userconsoledata” and choose Open With.. (select Notepad)
Step 5: Change this:
<IsInternalPreview>false</IsInternalPreview>
into this: <IsInternalPreview>true</IsInternalPreview>
Step 6: Now open the Xbox App, begin streaming- and in the top right of the stream window, click the ((o)) button to select Very High.
And hey, whaddya know! If your bandwidth can support it, your streaming quality will be noticeably improved. Check out the slider comparison below.
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3 responses to “How To Unlock ‘Very High’ Streaming From Xbox One To PC”
I can confirm this works, and works well. Lag is the same as any other settings for me. Goes upto almost 20mb/s instead of around the 8mb/s. The lag is ever so slight. I thought the quality was fine on high. Very high (on a 13 inch macbook screen at least) looks very close to being played native on the laptop. Impressive.
Or Microsoft could just update Windows to support it through the normal interface.
I suspect the main reason it’s not available yet is they are still testing it. Hence the InternalPreview tag 😛