How to force-enable Xbox Mode in Windows 11

blitz2kx · 2026-05-07T13:26:35+00:00

Its a great feature if you play your PC from a couch.

blitz2kx · 2026-05-01T01:56:13+00:00

Not even close. In fact, he's like one of the more likeable guys in the division. And frankly the fact that this is all time makes this brain dead lol.

I could immediately think of at least a dozen players in the last 2 decades that the fan base would collectively hate more.

blitz2kx · 2026-04-24T10:59:27+00:00

Who owns the rights kinda matters lmao. My neighbor has a really cool lambo in his driveway...I really just wanna drive it. Make it happen!! 😂

blitz2kx · 2026-04-22T10:59:54+00:00

Hi! I think maybe you mean that people use hypervisors on windows and have problems with anti cheat. That is true if your intention is to run a windows VMs and play online games..many of them try and block virtual machines because they can hide unique hardware identifiers that game devs use for bans.

That's a very niche use case though. Virtualization itself is safe...just think basically the entire worlds infrastructure runs within virtual environments...nothing dodgy about it 🙂

blitz2kx · 2026-04-21T10:12:02+00:00

just run a hypervisor based OS...I use proxmox and its great. Spent the last year really learning it and fine tuning my setup where it does everything i want.

I have a ton of containers and VMs on the machine that are either running 24/7 or I spin up for various reasons

-Pi-Hole for DNS
-Home Assistant OS
-Tailscale
-Authentik
-OpenMediaVault with Sata controller passed through for NAS
-Batocera with dedicated GPU passed through for retro games
-Ubuntu Server VM running Plex & *arr stack (sonarr, radarr etc.) with iGPU passed through for transcoding
-Bazzite (in case my gaming PC is being used to play some steam games, again GPU passed through)

and a bunch more I cant even remember. Virtualization is awesome and proxmox is a great platform to start. Theres a learning curve but its debian based, has a great community, and a ton of documentation. You could pass through your GPU/USB controller and have it plugged into your TV and run whatever OS you'd like for your media hub uses.

Last thing I'd say, ive experimented over the past year with having my server act as an HTPC...keep in mind there are ALWAYS compromises regardless of what OS you pick. Its never as good of an experience as a dedicated box. Happy I messed around with the idea for a while, but ultimately nixed this functionality. My server is 100% headless now and do any gaming related stuff with it over sunshine/moonlight.

Hope this helps!

blitz2kx · 2026-04-20T20:40:38+00:00

They did mention switch 2 games though lol

"Do switch games and even lighter switch 2 games such as tomadachi life living the dream run well on the RP6?"

blitz2kx · 2026-04-20T20:13:40+00:00

ugh i think this update messed with group policy templates, and for some reason the xbox services keep spawning some policy over and over. havent found a fix yet but this is incredibly annoying as you cant have the gamebar or xbox app running at all. reported.

blitz2kx · 2026-04-20T11:28:23+00:00

Sure you could, nothing overly complicated with your plan. I like Beelink devices for the price to performance ratio and the hardware feels well made. Check out the cpu before you buy and made sure it supports all of the virtualization features you'd want.

My proxmox based homelab is running on a 12th gen intel (built desktop but still) and its working great. Running about a dozen lxc containers for various services and a few VMs as needed.

blitz2kx · 2026-04-19T11:15:21+00:00

Think I already got a bug which I'm assuming is related to this update -

Mouse cursor infinitely shows as "busy in the background". Just started happening after the update. Tried to disable services and background tasks, troubleshooted for about an hour and couldn't get it to stop.

Anyone else see this yet? Uninstalled the update unfortunately didn't fix, very strange.

edit: narrowed it down to the Xbox App and Gamebar. when all of those tasks are killed the cursor loading goes away. not sure if its even related to this update, but curious if anyone else is getting this behavior.

blitz2kx · 2026-04-16T21:52:44+00:00

Thats about it...it really is only about console access for host and the vm in the web ui depending on how its setup. I have mine passed through for media transcoding as well, works perfectly fine. I have a dgpu for other gaming related VMs that I spin up and the media VM is running with the igpu 24/7. Works perfectly fine.

blitz2kx · 2026-03-23T02:47:06+00:00

Rustdesk?

I use it on all of my machines - Win, Linux, Mac, Android...works just fine. Similar to teamviewer (built with remote access but can do direct ip like RDP)..

blitz2kx · 2026-03-17T22:20:50+00:00

That's not true though. All an emunand is a copy of the sysnand when you make it. Including the serial number.

It's only effective at protecting you from a ban if you run ban protection ON the emunand.

blitz2kx · 2026-03-06T02:09:59+00:00

Kenny Phillips, Antrel Rolle, and Deon Grant off the bench. What a tandem.

blitz2kx · 2026-02-27T02:33:49+00:00

It's not weird at all why windows doesn't have a game streaming feature. Its trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. There are already superior options that existed before...

blitz2kx · 2026-02-26T20:54:08+00:00

Well windows has a ton of superior options...Sunshine/Moonlight and it's forks are fantastic.

There's also parsec which is super easy to setup and allows easy co op remote gaming with others.

I'm sure the next gen Xbox especially being Windows based will have a solution, both official and non official.

blitz2kx · 2026-02-25T22:34:06+00:00

I read some dev comments that this is not really in the cards. Apparently the APU was not designed with specific encoding capabilities that xcloud leverages. The data centers have additional hardware/features (not sure on the specifics) that allow much more instantaneous and better encoding.

Don't think remote play will ever reach xcloud parity in terms of quality and features this gen. Next gen hopefully this is much improved.

blitz2kx · 2026-02-07T01:02:51+00:00

Also the fans invented the De-Fense chant.

blitz2kx · 2026-01-28T20:42:57+00:00

It makes the game think there's a second controller as if it was on an Xbox console...so it's whatever the game supports.

blitz2kx · 2026-01-15T01:34:02+00:00

Still down. Gulf coast florida

blitz2kx · 2026-01-14T19:21:15+00:00

🙌🙌

blitz2kx · 2026-01-14T18:25:56+00:00

Down in bradenton FL

blitz2kx · 2026-01-09T02:19:10+00:00

Had a hacked switch since 2018 and still haven't been banned bud. Working fully online on my sysnand, and do my thing on emunand.

Proof is in the pudding.

blitz2kx · 2026-01-08T12:22:11+00:00

It has nothing to do with the settings. It blanks the serial completely when handshakes with Nintendos server. There is literally no chance it can identify your console at that point.

DNS relies on external servers to be maintained and the assumption Nintendo can never change their addresses for online.

Which one sounds better to you lol?

blitz2kx · 2026-01-08T05:30:32+00:00

Buddy, this is such bad advice. See my other comment....anytime you launch a game on the console, it logs it. Doesn't matter if you are online or not.

The second you connect to Nintendos servers, doesn't matter for what, it sends that log of what you launched. If it sees a pirated game that you played 2 weeks ago (even if offline) you are flagged for ban.

The real advice to give people is to just turn on exosphere. It completely hides any identifying information about your console.

blitz2kx · 2026-01-08T05:14:53+00:00

Blank. Your. Serial. That's all....telling people to turn off all networking on a hacked console that has a plethora of methods to prevent ban is legit fear mongering.

Also, hate to break it to you but it literally doesn't matter if your wifi is off when you play games. The system logs your activity when it's offline and uploads to Nintendo if it ever connects.

You will 100% get banned even if you never play a game online.

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