Performance tips

Overseer can be a memory hog if not tamed. At this time, Overseer depends on Chromium (the framework behind Chrome, Discord, and many other programs) which is not known to be light in resources. Overseer is directly impacted the number of rendered tiles on your canvas.

If Overseer appears laggy or unresponsive on your computer, please try the solutions based on some common problems below.

Culling

Ensure you layouts are optimized for culling behaviors.

By default, tiles off-screen will be culled, or removed from Overseer’s resources. This helps save RAM and CPU resources. You have the option to turn culling on/off in the Edit tile menu.

To optimize for culling behavior, be aware of what tiles exist at a certain camera point and zoom level. For example, it’s better to have one Website tile in a view than it is to have five. Spread out your website tiles utilize Pages to ensure optimal culling behavior.

Blur effects

By default, blur effects are off. You are free to turn on blur effects in Settings > Theme > Enable blur effects. This enhances the look of Overseer Studio at the cost of rendering performance.

For optimal performance, blur effects should remain off.

Incorrect graphics driver

Windows sometimes has issues choosing a default graphic card for Overseer and might end up defaulting to an embedded graphic card instead of your dedicated graphic card. If you are seeing your embedded card in System information instead of your dedicated card, please update Windows settings.

1. Open Settings on Windows 11
2. Click on System
3. Click the Display page on the right side
4. Click the Graphics setting under the “Related settings” section
5. Click the “Add desktop app” button
6. Click on Overseer Studio to expand its settings
7. Change GPU Preference to “High Performance”
8. Restart the application

If this doesn’t work, please contact us in Discord or send me an email.