Why cant I stream certain games on Xbox?

It's easy to start streaming your Xbox One gameplay to several platforms with Restream even if you don't have a capture card. To do this, you'll need to capture Xbox Companion App on your computer and stream it with any software, like OBS. It will allow you to add overlays to your stream, and also to stream to Restream to send your video to several platforms at once.

How to stream your Xbox One gameplay without a capture card

To begin, you need to enable streaming on your console. Go to Console Settings.

Next, navigate to Preferences - Xbox app connectivity.

For other devices enable streaming only from profiles signed in on this Xbox. Also, make sure to enable both streaming options on the right for this Xbox.

After doing that download and install an Xbox Console Companion App for your Windows computer. Log in to the same account you use on your console.

After logging in navigate to Connection and select your Xbox One. Press the Stream button on the top. A window with your console screen will be opened.

Note: You don't have to connect Xbox Gamepad to your PC. If you have a warning - just click Continue to avoid latency issues.

Add this window to OBS as a Screen capture or Window capture in your main OBS Sources area.

Note: for the best quality, both devices should be connected to the same network with Ethernet cables. Having them connected over WiFi may result in a quality loss.

Xbox's game streaming services have so far been limited to titles inside the Xbox Game Pass line-up – but that will change later this year.

No release date has been announced as yet, but Xbox says that Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will soon gain the ability to stream select games they own, even if they're not part of Game Pass. No specific titles have been announced as yet, nor has Xbox explained if the intent is to make all games playable through streaming as well as disc/download.

It appears no such option is coming for game owners that are not subscribers to Game Pass Ultimate.

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Speaking in a briefing for media, CVP of Gaming Experiences & Platforms, Ashley McKissick said, "Gamers are not shy with their feedback, which is awesome. And so one of the things that they told us, it's like, 'Hey, we would love to be able to stream games that we own even if they're not in the Game Pass catalog.'

"And so later this year if you are an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate member, you will be able to stream from the cloud games you purchase and also games you already own as long as they're cloud enabled in the catalog."

Xbox's streaming options have been growing for years at this point. Starting from a small test for the service, then referred to as xCloud, Xbox Cloud Gaming has since become more fully-fledged. Since then, Xbox has announced its intention to bring streaming options to TVs, confirmed it's working on a streaming stick, brought streaming to its consoles, and more.

This new move appears to be a step towards not just expanding where you can play cloud games, but which games you can play.

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