Discord announced a series of updates for the desktop app that help make PC gaming easier and work better for players.

Here’s how it works. Discord is getting a major update today that includes a "completely new version" of the chat app's in-game overlay, as well as new themes and options for the desktop client.

NVIDIA has a useful overlay that can enhance your gaming experience's visuals and provides a bunch of useful tools you probably didn't know existed.

Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end.

Discord’s revamped Game Overlay feature One of the problems with the older Game Overlay was that it “hooked into” the game window, which dragged down the game’s frame rate.