diff --git a/src/ui/material/draw_helpers.h b/src/ui/material/draw_helpers.h
index f3222a9..f285f13 100644
--- a/src/ui/material/draw_helpers.h
+++ b/src/ui/material/draw_helpers.h
@@ -1298,7 +1298,10 @@ inline bool BeginOverlayDialog(const OverlayDialogSpec& spec)
     return childVisible;
 }
 
-// Legacy positional overload — forwards to the spec impl with GlassCard defaults (byte-identical).
+// Positional overload — the default look for the app's dialogs: a card (auto-height, so small
+// dialogs stay small) on the live-blur backdrop. The card renders opaque via the sole-consumer
+// fallback (glass would thrash the single-slot blur cache against the radius-64 backdrop). A dialog
+// that wants the old opaque scrim (no blur) can pass a spec with blurBackdrop = false.
 inline bool BeginOverlayDialog(const char* title, bool* p_open, float cardWidth = 460.0f,
                                float scrimOpacity = 0.92f, float cardBottomViewportRatio = 0.85f,
                                const char* idSuffix = nullptr)
@@ -1306,6 +1309,7 @@ inline bool BeginOverlayDialog(const char* title, bool* p_open, float cardWidth
     OverlayDialogSpec s;
     s.title = title; s.p_open = p_open; s.cardWidth = cardWidth;
     s.scrimOpacity = scrimOpacity; s.cardBottomViewportRatio = cardBottomViewportRatio; s.idSuffix = idSuffix;
+    s.blurBackdrop = true;
     return BeginOverlayDialog(s);
 }