The ability of Avast to disable notifications and stuff during gaming has been around for long, but this Game Mode has been bugging me since today's update. It insist on adding *every* full-screen application to the games list of Game Mode. If I undo the action, I'll get the notification again, so I have two options: disable Game Mode, or allow every auto-added thing to be there and disable game mode for it.
First of all, considering every application which goes to full screen beyond the Windows desktop is imho a very severe error, and an oversimplification. I run many applications which change to exclusive graphics mode due to my design hobby. But even the simplest things go in the same bucket for Avast, for example XNViewMP, an excellent, popular and free image browser/viewer, and VLC, a multimedia viewer without need of codecs, also very popular and free. Really, an image viewer and a video viewer? Something is very flawed.
And second, that auto-detection can't be disabled. It's constantly running. So again only two options, both bad: disable Game Mode, or manually configure each new entry just because Avast wants me to. It's good that Avast tries to help users, but I know better than Avast when I install another game, and I bet there's a large part of Avast users which don't use computers mainly for gaming.
Thumbs down for the auto-detection implementation, and double thumbs down for the fact that it can't be disabled.
Thus I request that, hopefully soon, this auto-detection is improved, and at least, it can be disabled so I can forget about it until I install a new game.