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Help What does disabling the hardware overlays do? and forcing GPU rendering?

I have to use the option under developer settings disable hardware overlays for this one game, that is glitched unless this option is checked, This freezes videos for other apps like youtube, the video will freeze and audio keeps playing.

So what exactly does disabling the hardware overlays do?
Also what is "force GPU rendering" should i keep it on?
 

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