[Question] Steam Overlay causes game to slow to a crawl?

This does not always happen, but there have been a few times where my fps in game basically hovers from 5-0 fps (complete freeze for a few seconds) and the only way I have been able to remedy it is to turn off the Steam overlay. Once I do, the game no longer stutters and I go to 45-60+ fps.



A few times when this has occurred, I have noticed it took several minutes easy for the game to start up instead of the normal slow startup



Anyone else have this issue or something similar?