If you're not familiar, the Discord overlay is a part of the desktop application that can draw on top of the games you play. Its most common use is to see who's on and speaking in the team chat, by showing small profile icons in the top left of your screen. Due to the change in how the overlay works, you might've noticed this disappear, or be replaced by a new prompt asking you to give the overlay permissions.
We don't need to get into the nitty gritty of how it works, but this means the new Discord overlay is kind of like another window that's sitting on top of your game window. Much like how you'd stack two browser windows overlapping each other.
What does the new Discord overlay do?
To access the new Discord overlay, press Shift+` (the key to the left of the 1 key). Here, you'll see a set of customizable regions with a few different functions. The Voice region shows the participants in the voice channel you're in. Notifications will show you any pings you've received in text channels, and the Video and Streams regions will display any video calls or your friends' streams.
With the full overlay open, you can drag any of the regions around to wherever they're most convenient for you—which is nice since I really don't need my friends' faces covering up my killfeed. Each region also has a few settings you can customize to get the layout you want.
There is a decent chance you might've turned off the overlay in the past or never enabled it to begin with. If you're curious and want to try it out, click on the "User Settings" gear in your Discord client, scroll down to Game Overlay, and click Enable Overlay.
The per-game override is handy if you only have one or two games that you play where you might be in voice or video chat, but not most other games. For example, I need to talk to my teammates in Overwatch 2, but I don't need any distractions while playing Pathologic 3.
What if I don't want to see the new Discord overlay?
Regardless, it's pretty simple to disable the new overlay. Click the User Settings gear in your Discord client, scroll down to Game Overlay, and disable the Enable Overlay toggle. That's it. It should be gone forever. Or at least until another update changes things again.
What if I want the old Discord Overlay back?
In my experience, the legacy overlay is a bit patchy. In some games, I couldn't get it to load at all, and it didn't seem to play nice with using the new overlay with some games and the legacy overlay for others. You can technically choose per-game overrides for each, but it can get tedious keeping track of which overlay is enabled for which game.
Your mileage may vary, but my advice is to use the Legacy Overlay option as a compatibility option for games that don't play nice with the new overlay, rather than a way to hold onto the past. Even if it works well for now, the old overlay will probably go away at some point.
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