Avast’s game mode optimizes your computer’s settings for gaming. It blocks notifications and pauses updates to help you focus on the game. Additionally, it adjusts settings on your PC to make gaming priority over other applications that could drain the CPU and reduce performance.
When you play games, you require lots of resources such as GPU, CPU RAM MEMORY, CPU, and more. Other applications or record processes can divert these resources away from your gaming program, making it slow down or crash. Avast game mode enables you to focus solely on your video games by temporarily turning off background processes and notifying that you could be interrupted.
It also minimizes the impact of antivirus updates and scans on the performance of your gaming by identifying when you’re playing a game and suspending them to prevent interruptions. This is an advantage for those who don’t wish to lose their gaming to perform maintenance or risk being infected by viruses.
To enable the game mode of avast, simply launch the antivirus program and click the menu button located in the top-right corner of the Windows taskbar. Select “Settings” and then turn the switch next to Enable Game Mode to on. A special icon will appear on the system tray when Game Mode is enabled.
You can also visit an individual page in the Avast software to add specific games to the list and then have them automatically switch into Game Mode whenever you play them. However, you might want to disable the game mode feature of Avast at some point due to one of a variety of reasons. This article will demonstrate how to do this from the Avast GUI.