Windows 11 - Roon player identified as game (Nvidia overlay activated)

Hi all,

I was formerly only using Roon on Apple devices but now also use a Windows 11 PC. On this computer Windows 11 apparently identifies the Roon player as a game and activates the Nvidia statistics overlay.

Is this expected behaviour as Roon does something in the background that makes Windows 11 think its a game? Or should this not be happening?

Roon uses OpenGL to display the user interface, and this implementation is essentially the same as a video game.

Having said that, I use a Nvidia graphics card on my Windows 11 PC, and the Nvidia app hasn’t included Roon in its list of programs that can have settings applied to them.

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Thank you for the reply.

That does make a lot of sense. My Nvidia dashboard also does not include Roon but when I start Roon, Nvidia pops up in the right corner telling me that the overlay is available with ALT + Z as I was in a game. The MSI Afterburner system overlay also turns itself on automatically.

But with your explanation it does make sense as to why.