How to Access Nvidia Overlay with GeForce Experience (2020)

Written by Darlene Antonelli, MA

Last Updated: January 29, 2023

This wikiHow teaches you how to access the NVIDIA overlay using GeForce Experience.

Steps

1
Launch your game. Since an overlay is intended to display on top of another full-screen program, you'll need to be running one in order to activate the overlay feature.
2
Press and hold Alt+Z. If you don't see an overlay, you'll need to open the GeForce Experience application in the background and click the green Share button on the left side of Settings.
- You can download GeForce Experience from https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/.
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3
Release the keys when you see the overlay appear. You can click buttons in the options to take a screenshot, record video, and broadcast your game live to Twitch using the overlay in NVIDIA Share.^{[1]
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References

↑ https://www.howtogeek.com/259573/how-to-record-your-pc-gameplay-with-nvidia-shadowplay/#:~:text=To%20open%20the%20overlay%2C%20press,toolbar%20to%20open%20the%20overlay.

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Darlene Antonelli, MA

wikiHow Technology Writer

This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Darlene Antonelli is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. Darlene has experience teaching college courses, writing technology-related articles, and working hands-on in the technology field. She earned an MA in Writing from Rowan University in 2012 and wrote her thesis on online communities and the personalities curated in such communities. This article has been viewed 87,820 times.

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1. Launch your game.
2. Press and hold Alt + Z.
3. Release the keys when you see the overlay appear.

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