Suppose you’re using a computer with an AMD Radeon graphics card, and you install the official Adrenalin drivers. In that case, you may encounter an annoying feature: when you’re playing games or using full-screen apps, you see a Radeon Software prompt in the corner of the screen, prompting you to press ALT+R to open. If you want to disable the Radeon Software overlay showing this message, read this tutorial:
Press ALT+R to Open Radeon Software
If you do what the message says, it opens the Radeon Software dashboard, where you see the game you’re playing, the average performance you get, and shortcuts to tools that you can use to take screenshots during games or record videos of your gameplay.
The Radeon Software dashboard
While the Radeon Software dashboard can be helpful, some gamers are annoyed by it and just want to play games or use apps without stumbling upon annoying bugs and interruptions. Also, the In-Game Overlay (ALT+R) tends to mess with hotkeys used by other apps and programs.
TIP: Did you know that the Xbox Game Bar from Windows 10 offers many similar features to the Radeon Software Overlay? One more reason why you may not want both to be active on your gaming PC.
Right-click on the desktop and choose AMD Radeon Software
In the Radeon Software dashboard, click or tap on the Settings button from the top-right corner, and then go to Preferences.
Go to Settings, and then to Preferences
Look for the General section of preferences. There, disable the switch named “In-Game Overlay" by clicking or tapping on it.
Disable the In-Game Overlay switch
After you set this switch to Disabled, the Radeon Software overlay is no longer displayed. In addition, the ALT+R shortcut stops being active, so it doesn’t mess with other apps. However, you should keep reading this tutorial to learn how to turn off other things that may annoy you about the Radeon Software.
CTRL+SHIFT+S no longer works in some apps
To solve these conflicts with keyboard shortcuts used by different Windows apps, open the Radeon Software as shown earlier. Then, click or tap on the Settings icon from the top-right corner and go to the Hotkeys tab. Here you find all the keyboard shortcuts used by Radeon Software, including those interfering with the apps you use.
Go to Settings and then to Hotkeys
Find the keyboard shortcut that you want to fix and click on it. Then, Radeon Software asks you to press a key to assign it as the new keyboard shortcut or press Delete to unbind the current shortcut. Press Delete on your keyboard, and Radeon Software no longer uses that keyboard shortcut.
Click on a keyboard shortcut and press Delete
Repeat this process for all the keyboard shortcuts from Radeon Software that interfere with other apps you use. When done, you should see NONE listed as the keyboard shortcut for the hotkeys you've modified.
Keyboard shortcuts removed from Radeon Software
From now on, the Radeon Software overlay should no longer interfere with the keyboard shortcuts from your preferred Windows apps.
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The AMD Radeon Software Overlay (ALT+R)
After you install the Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers for your AMD Radeon video card, each time you play a game or open a full-screen app that uses your AMD graphics card, you see an overlay like the one below: “RADEON SOFTWARE. PRESS ALT+R TO OPEN.”How to disable the Radeon Software In-Game Overlay (ALT+R)
To disable the Radeon Software overlay, either press the ALT+R keyboard shortcut or right-click or press-and-hold somewhere on the space on your Windows desktop. Then, in the menu that opens, go to AMD Radeon Software.How to disable the keyboard shortcuts used by Radeon Software
Even if you disable the Radeon Software In-Game Overlay using the instructions shared earlier, its keyboard shortcuts are still active. As a result, they can interfere with Windows apps and desktop programs. For example, when using apps like Paint.NET, pressing CTRL+SHIFT+S no longer works because of the Radeon Software. Instead, you get a message saying: “Instant Replay Off.”
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The hotkeys remain active despite the overlay being disabled and hotkeys disabled.
The AMD software has no ability to remove the media hotkeys or set to NONE.
The software is always listening for those specific hotkeys, and then is delighted to tell you how “disabled” they are, while still blocking the function of hotkeys in the program you intended.
This is a very invasive feature, and leads to constant errors and frustrations while using professional grade software suites, not just gaming.
Fix your shit, AMD.
It kept popping up during the most intense of firefights in ARMA3.
there are no settings in top right corner .
pressing alt-r does nothing at all until you are in game then it freezes the game by removing mouse control.
worst graphics card i ever bought,wont be buying anymore of this amatuer shit,you cant even describe the way your software works or looks even..
Annoying popup during Zoom screenshare
in overwrote my Adobe Premiere Pro Hot Keys. Nope. Cant have that!!!
I am not a gamer. It pops up when I use powerpoint full screen. The overlay is annoying! . . . especially when I am broadcasting on zoom or other platforms.
BTW – you don’t must to delete the short-cut. You have an option to disable hot keys using.
Disabling was not enough for me. I had to unbind the hotkeys to prevent them from interfering with other programs.
The shortcuts are annoying because I’m using Eclipse which have the same shortcuts and it’s prevent me from use the good old shortcuts. Thanks
Perfect. Worked for me as the shortcuts where interfering with VS Code!
Happy New Year! 🙂
It was making games crash more often.
Interferes with work, it’s annoying and frustrating.
It somehow always appears when I just press R, even without pressing the Alt key. Makes it hard to type.
my alt button is my push to talk and when i reload at the same time then this overlay show up
To many interferences with other often used apps like photoshop, blender and so on.
ALT-R is the Everquest command for opening the raid interface. Until I found this article I had to log to leave a raid.
It makes me uncomfortable when I open games in full screen that flashes and makes the game slow for me
In v20.9.2 appear and keep blinking making games crash or jitter, this happens in Super Mega Baseball 3
Thank you so much! This has been causing me issues in my MMOs since I downloaded this (I use a bunch of Ctrl+Shift keybinds). You’re a hero 🙂
Thank you so much this was annoying and dissapointing about any software when “IT” knows better how to make you better!
Unbelievable: I use my laptop for work and this forced update brought me to a halt. I use ALT keys in data processing, excel, word docs and I was constantly getting the Radeon pop up. What were they thinking – that no-one has a job anymore? THANK YOU for explaining how to solve this problem.
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This info was GREATLY appreciated. Stupid AMD and their idiotic, never-ending attempt to be a “thing” in the game streaming space…UGH. SHUT UP AND MAKE GREAT HARDWARE with solid, easy-to-use software!
The AMD hot keys interfered with other apps that I use; I’m not primarily a gamer, and would like to see a single global off switch for all these. As in, “Allow AMD Radeon Software to use Hotkeys? Yes/no.”
which version or edition of Adrenalin 2020 does this screenshot belong to?
Thanks
Because this dumb “RADEON SOFTWARE /nextline PRESS ALT + R TO OPEN” is stuck open for this whole day. 10/10 would buy a different card next time to not deal with this overlay.
Thanks the help
This software is processor heavy enough that it makes my games run worse. There’s no option in the software to close it so you have to use task manager. It’s useless to me. I’m insulted that I’m forced to have it installed to also have amd drivers. It’s barely above spyware.
I found it annoying because it wasn’t ingame, it showed on my desk top “always on top”, and I could only get rid of it by restarting computer. I did all the things in the article and hope it doesn’t show up again, I have no idea what makes it pop up, If I had to guess it would be after playing a game.
I’m not playing games. I’m working! So every one of the annoying ‘shortcuts’ interfered with keyboard shortcuts I use all the time.
Great thanks
i am not getting radeon software icon on right click after updating to latest version even not in start menu help me
Use the search box in Windows 10 and search for “radeon software”.
I do not use my PC for games, only for editing Audio and Video as work.
Simply, thank you. This software is annoying.
More garbage software running in the background slowing down you loading and processor.
I’m not able to use the shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop because of Radeon hotkeys which is too annoying. I really don’t understand why they make it affect other apps especially something like Adobe PS. Thank you so much for this tutorial, you’re a lifesaver!
Thank you. I hate this feature and I hate the fact that it was installed without me asking for it and without a real option for disabling it. It’s annoying.
F*K AMD! No more ATi, bye bye! The latest build of w10 crashed over the crappy driver, now this short key crap.
I understand your frustration, but please be more polite when expressing yourself.
Thanks for these instructions. The fact that there isn’t a single toggle to globally disable all Radeon Software keyboard shortcuts is beyond assinine.
Thank you for this. I finally was able to unbind all these hotkeys super easy, while disabling other unnecessary (for me) features. Great article.
Having now disabled shortcuts – my machine keyboard stopped working had to hard reboot to clear – is this software really written that badly!
I’m afraid that it is.
This anoyed me because it comes up with everything – not just games – work apps citrix connections… etc
And some of those apss don’yt like it they do not redrawproperly.
I didn’afor it – I don’t want it – it feells like malware
This guide did not solve my issue. In-game overlay is “Disabled” and all hot-keys are deleted but all the features are still very much active. Any advice?
I don’t game, and I use this computer to write software and instead of saving all the files in Visual Studio, it would try to start some gif or whatever.
It anoyed me because the hotkey popup notification picture locked itself on the screen and never went away when i was gaming. i had to restart the pc to remove it. the hotkey option is a good thing, but i dont need to be told all the time what the hotkey alt+r does.
I did all this and it still tells tells me ALT-R whenever I start up a game… but it does nothing.
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That is so strange. For us it worked like a charm, from the very first try. See if a computer restart changes anything.
Not working. I still get that annoying prompt every time a game starts…..
This helped for me:
I searched “AMDDVR” in registry editor and i found it here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAMDDVR
If you found it, then click on ToggleRsHotkey registry and modify Alt,R to blank and then restart your computer. Or stop the following processes:
Radeon Settings: Desktop Overlay
Radeon Settings: Host Service
Radeon Settings: Source Extension
Now run AMD software from your start menu, and run a game.
Have a nice day!
I still get that annoying prompt every time a game starts, even though I followed these steps.
It would activate accidentally when reloading while playing
The same happened to me too.