Microsoft will begin rolling out its new Xbox Full Display screen Expertise (FSE) to Home windows-based handhelds on November twenty first. The complete display screen mode for the Xbox app initially shipped on the Xbox Ally gadgets final month, offering a extra console-like navigation expertise on high of Home windows 11.
Whereas Microsoft launched a preview to MSI Claw models final month, it’s now making the Xbox Full Display screen Expertise typically out there to all Home windows-based handhelds. Microsoft is also expanding Xbox FSE “to extra Home windows 11 PC kind components by way of the Xbox and Home windows Insider packages.”
The Xbox FSE doesn’t load the total Home windows desktop or a bunch of background processes, liberating up extra reminiscence for video games. It’s primarily not loading the Explorer shell and saving round 2GB of reminiscence by suppressing all of the pointless elements of a typical Home windows 11 set up.
For those who determine to allow Xbox FSE in your handheld or PC, it would launch you straight into the Xbox PC app at boot, which incorporates your whole PC video games from the Microsoft Retailer, Battle.web, Steam, and different storefronts. There’s additionally a Sport Bar for navigating between video games and launchers, and a activity view that’s designed to be extra handheld-friendly.
To activate Xbox FSE on a appropriate handheld, go to Settings > Gaming > Full display screen expertise, then choose Xbox as your property app.