

So which ones would I keep? The Netflix of overlays is clearly Nvidia's GeForce Experience overlay (Alt+Z). Butt they're probably more akin to streaming services than pop-up ads. To be fair, I do find game overlays to be valuable. While calling game overlays ‘pop up ads' is probably over the top, they can get that annoying when you have an overlay on top of the overlay, on top of the overlay you're trying to reach. If you're one of the few people still running Electronic Arts' Origin launcher, you've got one too (Shift+F1). Epic Games also has an overlay for Friends, but only in games that supports it (Shift+F3). Discord includes a game overlay (disabled by default but Shift+Tilde when on) and Good Old Games (GOG) Galaxy uses (Shift+Tab). AMD's default Radeon overlay is a memorable (Alt+R). It's also clear there's far more out there too. Mind you, I didn't install any of these game overlays, they're just included by installing the software. Just playing Far Cry 5 on a laptop, I ran into four different game overlays
