Open your task manager. Pick one primary overlay for your needs and disable the rest.
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| 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. Open your task manager