Need Help

[Oh Fuck Yeah Bud]

So basically, I have this problem of whenever I play a game through steam, I often receive notifications like, "a friend is online" or "you have received an item", and as soon as I receive these notifications I get really laggy, and my game basically becomes unplayable, and I usually have to proceed to restarting the game.
I was wondering how to fix this problem, or get rid of all notifications, to be able to avoid this problem.

[Kranky K. Krackpot]

Try to disable "Enable Steam Community in games" in settings.

[Oh Fuck Yeah Bud]

Thanks! I've actually done that, but haven't checked if it works just yet.

[Toquita]

Interesting.

I had almost the same problem and the solution was to downgrade the graphics quality in-game. For example, "Texture Detail" on Medium will never cause problems and I can use In-Game Community.

[Oh Fuck Yeah Bud]

I'll give that a try as well :D
Thanks for the help :D

[Ashley]

You can turn off individual notifications in the Steam settings.