HOW TO: Unlock very high settings for home streaming in the Xbox app on Windows 10

Redditors have found a way to enable a hidden very high quality setting in the Xbox app for Windows 10 that allows players to stream their Xbox One in even better quality, pending their network can handle it.

The process isn't too hard for those who know the basics of navigating some of the more tucked-away settings of Windows:

• Go to "%localappdata%\Packages\" in Windows Explorer
• Navigate to the "Microsoft.XboxApp" folder
• Open the "Local State" folder 
• Open the file "userconsoledata" in a text editor
• Use the find option to locate "IsInternalPreview"
• Change this variable to "true" then save and close the file.

This small tweak enables you to select the very high quality setting when streaming your Xbox One to your PC, and makes a big difference in quality. The amount of in-home bandwidth is reportedly increased from around 3Mbps to a peak of 20Mbps. I haven't had a chance to run this tweak yet myself, but give it a try and let us know what your results are in the comments.

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DLC RELEASE: Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Descent Xbox One

Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Descent (DLC) 

In this new adventure, playable within the Dragon Age: Inquisition campaign, you will fight new adversaries, gain epic weapons and armor, and solve one of Thedas’ greatest mysteries. Go underground to reveal the source of mysterious earthquakes threatening Thedas. Enter the Deep Roads to battle monstrous darkspawn, bloodthirsty creatures that dwell beneath the surface of Thedas. Explore ancient dwarven ruins and cavernous dungeons infested with deadly enemies to find the cause of dangerous, worsening earthquakes. Descend deeper underground to discover a hidden world and face a powerful entity. Requires Dragon Age: Inquisition

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ARTICLE: Crackdown 3 Is at the Mercy of Your Internet Provider

DATA PROVIDER FICKLENESS is the bane of Internet service contracts, the killjoy of 4G smartphone coverage, and, potentially, the wet blanket of online mayhem in  Crackdown 3, Reagent Games’ superhero-city-pummeling Xbox One exclusive.

Crackdown 3 sounds a lot like Crackdown 1 and 2 (Grand Theft Auto-like open worlds, only with superheroes), save for the “one more thing” unveiled at Gamescom last week: fully destructible urban jungles, powered by Microsoft’s Azure servers.

Azure is Microsoft’s buzzword for its angle on cloud computing, which is in turn a buzzword for a bunch of computers holding hands to parallel-crunch much grander computing tasks. With Crackdown 3, Azure apparently will offload stuff the Xbox One couldn’t handle by its lonesome to deliver virtual metropolises you can clobber to bits and pieces.

The trouble is, whether it’ll work as advertised remains anyone’s guess—including Microsoft’s.

“We can ensure that what leaves the data center is in a particular state, but not what happens between then and when it gets to people’s houses,” Microsoft global publishing general manager Sharron Loftis tells Game Informer.

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RELEASE: Toy Soldiers: War Chest Xbox One

 Toy Soldiers: War Chest

Take turns protecting your toy box and preparing waves of different enemies for the best attack. If you would rather join up with your bestie and take on other teams of toys in the new 2v2 mode, plan a playdate! Cooperative and Couch Play Team up with a friend to play any of the main campaign, weekly war, survival, or multiplayer maps together! You can play split screen on the same console or invite your friends and play online.

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ARTICLE: Crackdown 3 uses the Microsoft Cloud to summon the power of 20 Xbox Ones

The Crackdown series has always been a fan-favorite, offering a very memorable brand of over-the-top crime-fighting action. We were pretty psyched to hear about its return with Crackdown 3, and we walked away from our recent gamescom 2015 demo totally blown away, Not only did we get the kind of awesome single-player Crackdown experience that we know and love; we got the coolest tech demo that has ever graced the Xbox One.

We are not exaggerating when we say that Crackdown 3’s multiplayer building destruction demo was pretty much the coolest thing at gamescom. Like, holy crap levels of amazing. Games have promised this level of building destruction in the past, but no game has ever fulfilled it quite this fully.

So, get this: Crackdown 3 uses the Microsoft Cloud to segment the city into different chunks, each one using a different server’s processing power. We got to see a color-coded guide that essentially shows how each city block is connected to a unique server. This means that the compute load is split enough that the Xbox One isn’t trying to do every calculation for the entire game world (an impossible feat for even the beefiest computer – let alone a console). Essentially, Crackdown 3 uses the Microsoft Cloud to summon the power of 20 Xbox Ones, and fuses them together to make your game defeat lag and destroy anything you want, the way you want to.

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