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Disable Game Bar background app capture

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Sets AppCaptureEnabled = 0 under the per-user GameDVR key. Stops the Xbox Game Bar's capture pipeline from hooking into running games, which removes its constant GPU/CPU overhead and the small input-latency cost it adds. You can still screenshot/record with other tools. Safe and reversible.

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