Question GeForce Experience - Recognizing Unity Player Executable as Game

I notice that GeForce Experience does not identify Unity player-created executables as games. I am not talking about NVidia optimization, marketing, or box art -- just the process of identifying that a game is running.

When NVidia identifies that a game is running it enables FPS counters and recordings go to a directory which matches the game's name.

Interestingly, notepad.exe in Windows 11 is recognized by GeForce Experience as a game (incorrectly).

Has anyone encountered this behavior with Unity player executables? Is there a trick to getting GeForce Experience to recognize it as a game?

(NVidia tech support acknowledges that some DirectX games are not identified, and they don't know why.)

 

You are exactly right! It does work with an empty project. OK, this is super helpful. I just need to see what is different about my game. I'll reply back with findings.

 

I couldn't reproduce the behavior in the empty project. I tried copying across different player settings without success. And then suddenly it just started working.