Gamingoverlay

| If you want... | Keep this overlay | Disable... | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Discord | Steam, NVIDIA, Xbox | | Recording/Streaming | NVIDIA ShadowPlay | Discord, Steam | | Hardware Monitoring | MSI Afterburner/RivaTuner | Everything else | 2. The Discord Overlay Fix (Biggest CPU Hog) Discord’s overlay is notorious for causing FPS drops in CPU-heavy games like Warzone , Valorant , or CS2 . It polls constantly to see which friends are in which voice channel.

But here is the dirty secret nobody tells you: gamingoverlay

Disable everything except the one tool you truly need. You won't miss the clutter, but you will notice the smoother framerate. | If you want