Windows Handhelds Are Getting The New Xbox Full Screen Experience Tomorrow

Microsoft will commencement rolling retired its caller Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) to Windows-based handhelds connected November 21st. The afloat surface mode for nan Xbox app primitively shipped connected nan Xbox Ally devices past month, providing a much console-like navigation acquisition connected apical of Windows 11.

While Microsoft released a preview to MSI Claw models past month, it’s now making nan Xbox Full Screen Experience mostly disposable to each Windows-based handhelds. Microsoft is also expanding Xbox FSE “to much Windows 11 PC shape factors done nan Xbox and Windows Insider programs.”

The Xbox FSE doesn’t load nan afloat Windows desktop aliases a bunch of inheritance processes, freeing up much representation for games. It’s fundamentally not loading nan Explorer ammunition and redeeming astir 2GB of representation by suppressing each nan unnecessary parts of a emblematic Windows 11 installation.

If you determine to alteration Xbox FSE connected your handheld aliases PC, it will motorboat you consecutive into nan Xbox PC app astatine boot, which includes each of your PC games from nan Microsoft Store, Battle.net, Steam, and different storefronts. There’s besides a Game Bar for navigating betwixt games and launchers, and a task position that’s designed to beryllium much handheld-friendly.

To move connected Xbox FSE connected a compatible handheld, spell to Settings > Gaming > Full surface experience, past prime Xbox arsenic your location app.