How to remove Nvidia overlay

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This tutorial will show you how to remove the Nvidia overlay from any application. You will need to edit a DLL from Nvidia to do this, so any mistake can brick your games & software. Make a backup of the files. At the time of writing Nvidia offers no other way of controlling this, perhaps that is different by the time you read this. Send them feedback[forums.geforce.com] so they simply create their DLLs with this fix.

lockhunter: https://lockhunter.com/
hex editor (or use any other): https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2504

• Figure out the name of the program where you want to remove the overlay injection from and whether it is 32-bit or 64-bit (For Spotify it's spotify.exe and 32-bit. For Wallpaper Engine it's wallpaper32.exe, webwallpaper32.exe or wallpaper64.exe with respective bitness).
  
• Open C:\Windows\SysWOW64\nvspcap.dll in your hex editor if your app is 32-bit. If it's 64-bit, open C:\Windows\System32\nvspcap64.dll ( https://i.imgur.com/I64GNbG.png ). Make a backup of this file before editing it.
  
• Search for 'xsplit' in the right text pane by pressing CTRL+F ( https://i.imgur.com/XfhtthR.png ).
  
• It's not possible to ADD anything, only to REPLACE existing ones. Replace "xsplit.xbcbp.exe" with "wallpaper32.exe" for example. Make sure to add an extra 00 in the left pane since the new name is shorter by one character. The length must match in the end or you will break the DLL. ( https://i.imgur.com/AQcFL0H.png ).
  
• In order to save the file, you must close all programs that it is loaded into. Right click it and use lockhunter ( https://i.imgur.com/jbvFZia.png ) close everything and save it.
  
• Restart the PC and the exclusion should work. If something breaks, you probably messed the file up, restore it from your backup and try again. Be careful to not change the size of the file.