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When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by BizarreByte »

blibble wrote: post #113
IntelMiner wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keeping it vague means they can simply shrug and refer to being able to ban accounts at their own discretion

so just sign up again like reddit, bans are entirely meaningless

Reddit is one of the most difficult sites online to use as a new user. Virtually no subreddits allow new account to post. There are often waiting periods of a month for new accounts and large karma requirements that are difficult to get, because once again subs won’t let you post.

Reddit is new user hostile.

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by aendruk »

thewebcount wrote: post #122
doix wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can use uBlock on the web, I can't do that on iOS. I'm fairly confident that it gives me more privacy than what I can get on iOS. It's much easier for me to get a vague idea what a webapp is tracking and what it's doing. You can see all the network requests, you can disable javascript, disable access to certain APIs etc. I bet iOS electron based apps are tracking significantly more than FF + uBlock. It's also why I…

You can use uBlock on iOS using the Orion browser.[0] [0] https://browser.kagi.com

> do that on iOS [apps]

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by Aachen »

jhgg wrote: post #123
snet0 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this is an Nvidia-side bug, rather than a Discord-side bug? But Discord's new feature simply exposes it?

Correct.

I mean, that's what it sounds like when reading the headline. Card not reaching full speed under is an issue with the card. Impaired performance could be from occupying it, but that's not what it says (it sounds like clock scaling or something). That you've been investigating this for Nvidia is very nice of you!

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by Aachen »

snake_plissken wrote: post #2

Discord can definitely do some strange things to your machine. I can't play DayZ when it's open, the game will not connect to any servers and errors out with this "player auth login state" message. I thought it was my internet connection but running a server locally also resulted in the same error. It took me a few months of on-and-off searching, but I eventually found a comment on a message board where someone had e…

Does dayz use DRM? My first thought is that they've got a false positive in their lie detector rather than that the Discord client somehow reaches into dayz and causes it to give "authentication state" errors.

Note that you can also use Discord just as a browser tab, dunno what the difference is with having a client as I've only ever used the browser version (and I bet the client is electron aka outdated browser under the hood anyway).

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by questiond »

WheatMillington wrote: post #131
miga wrote: post #4

There are many problems with discord, and GPU is not the worst one. Discord Snap has to block many unusual activities, but I still see these: * attempt to `ptrace` processes all the time; * using 99% CPU; * to work Discord needs some non-standard interfaces to be connected; * Discord tries to track which other programs you run by default and shares it. * too frequently restarting desktop integration snap until the lo…

Me and my friends started using discord early in its life. It was a joy to get away from Skype, google meet, etc. It was such an elegant solution. Sadly it has become a gigantic, bloated, buggy mess trying to do absolutely everything. I hate it. Can anyone recommend a better solution?

https://tavrn.gg/ maybe?

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by [deleted] »

miga wrote: post #4

There are many problems with discord, and GPU is not the worst one. Discord Snap has to block many unusual activities, but I still see these: * attempt to `ptrace` processes all the time; * using 99% CPU; * to work Discord needs some non-standard interfaces to be connected; * Discord tries to track which other programs you run by default and shares it. * too frequently restarting desktop integration snap until the lo…

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Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by Aachen »

criddell wrote: post #143
kibwen wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of the two major mobile OSes, one is literally owned by an ad company and the other is increasingly succumbing to the dark side of advertising. Why would I trust Apple not to do nefarious things with all the tracking they do ("privacy" my ass) when I could just use a browser with an adblocker and do even better?

You don’t think Apple can see what you are doing in your browser?

can != does

(I'm not an Apple user and never will be because, with the highest privilege level being reserved for Apple themselves, I don't own the device / can use it for general computation. It goes against my principles so I'm not some apple apologist, it just doesn't make much sense to assume what you said. Google wouldn't surprise me at all....when using Google Chrome/-ium. That's a choice. On Android, your data is fully in your hands, even if you have to fight tooth and nail for getting it your way.)

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by tumult »

tomr75 wrote: post #67
Zetobal wrote: post #14

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I use ripcord for discord and slack bonus it's a native app and uses about 20mb of ram.

is there a way to get it to save deleted messages?

Ripcord will temporarily remember deleted messages for channels in which you're a moderator. You can view the contents by right-clicking on the message. It won't do this if you aren't a moderator in that channel.

This is to help avoid having to use a bot to log all message edits+deletes, usually done to mitigate bad actors saying something bad, getting someone else to report the message or take a screenshot of it, then delete it afterwards.

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by Aachen »

speps wrote: post #74
deathanatos wrote: post #6

Interesting. I discovered just the other night that merely minimizing Discord nets me about a 20 FPS improvement in Factorio. (Even if Discord is otherwise off-screen, which it normally is, as Factorio is fullscreen, and there's no second monitor for me.)

So you were at 0 FPS and now at 20 FPS? Using FPS for performance without giving the before/after numbers is useless...

Not really. It just has to draw what's on the screen, which for an average base is estimable. Whether that's 40 to 60 or 140 to 160 fps doesn't really matter: it's a significant difference and I think probably absolute if you know how many flops or whatever you need per frame at a certain graphics settings level.

Not that I'd argue for making one Factorio frame a unit of measurement, to be fair; I just don't think the remark was useless.

Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

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Post by icodestuff »

jhgg wrote: post #118

Hey all, I work at discord and specifically have been tracking this issue. We recently released support for AV1 hardware encoding for go live streams. However, the process of probing the GPU for what codecs it supports has triggered a latent nvidia driver bug. We are releasing a workaround some time today, and nvidia is releasing a driver update to address this issue as well. Apologies for any inconvenience this has…

Is this also why Hades has been lagging, dropping frames, and running at a much lower framerate for months while Discord app DMs (and only DMs) are open?
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