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Updated: March 12, 2026
Windows 11 Game Bar Memory Leak & Frametime Stutter: Complete Fix
How to prevent Xbox Game Bar and GameDVR background processes from consuming RAM and causing 1% low frame pacing spikes in competitive shooters.
Background Recording Overhead on Modern Windows Builds
The Xbox Game Bar background recording buffer continuously writes rolling gameplay footage to system RAM. On systems with 16GB RAM, this background cache can trigger aggressive Windows paging file swapping.
Disable background capture in Windows Settings > Gaming > Captures > Set Record what happened to Off.
Marcus Thorne
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