Avast game mode is an option that optimizes your computer’s settings to play games. It blocks notifications and pauses updates to help you focus on the game, and it adjusts your PC settings to make gaming priority over other applications that could take up your CPU and cause performance degradation.
You will require lots of resources to play games, including RAM MEMORY, CPU, and GPU. Other programs or recording processes can divert these resources away from your gaming program, causing it to slow down or even crash. Avast game mode lets you to focus on playing video games by temporarily removing background processes and notifying you of possible interruptions.
It also reduces the impact of updates and antivirus scans on your gaming performance through intelligently identifying when you’re playing in a game and suspending them to stop interruptions. This can be a big advantage for gamers, who don’t want to have to stop their gameplay to do regular maintenance or risk becoming infected with viruses while trying to play.
To enable avast game mode, simply launch the antivirus program and then click the menu button in the upper-right corner of the Windows taskbar. You can then select «Settings» and turn the switch next to Enable Game Mode to on. A special icon will be displayed in the system tray if Game Mode is enabled.
You can also use an additional page within Avast to add specific programs to automatically switch to Game Mode when you play them. You might want to turn off the Avast gaming mode for different reasons. This article will explain how to do this from the Avast GUI.