Nsight Aftermath is primarily a development tool and is intended to be used with minimal side effects to the user application. Despite this, there may be overhead when it is enabled resulting in performance degradation. The application should only fully enable Nsight Aftermath when in an application controlled 'diagnostics mode', e.g. enabled after the user has experienced a GPU crash and exhaustive data collection is required. Your users should also be able to easily disable Nsight Aftermath in situations where performance is critical, such as when benchmarking or during competitive play. To override the behavior of applications that do not follow the above guidelines a user may force off all Aftermath functionality in the application: on Windows, set a Windows registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Aftermath\ForceOff=1 on Linux, set an environment variable: export NV_AFTERMATH_FORCE_OFF=1 For questions regarding these guidelines or Nsight Aftermath in general, please email NsightAftermath@nvidia.com