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
#2Discord 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 experimented with things by closing different sets of applications and then trying to connect to a DayZ server. They finally figured out it was Discord that was causing the issue.
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#3Discord 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…
Sounds like a port issue. I imagine the first thing most people did was list the ports in use when either app was running. Did the investigation end at finding the culprit or did they figure out the actual cause?
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#4There 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 logs make machine non-functional (got 500GB.)
* blocking other programs using desktop integration for file dialogs: latency of several minutes, sometimes dialogs never appear.
Discord is as dodgy app as can be. Hope we will not find it is actually another distribution of spyware.
Since programs with so many bugs and crashes are frequently prone to security issues, I recommend to replace Discord with another app that allows push-to-talk.
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#5There 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…
I yarn for the simpler days of IRC, Pidgin and Skype where these apps ran fine on a 1GHz Pentium 3 chip with 256MB of RAM.
Now you need a quad core 3GHz chip and 8GB RAM just to run a chat app reliably. Where did we go wrong?
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#6Interesting. 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.)
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#7There 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…
I yarn for the simpler days of IRC, Pidgin and Skype where these apps ran fine on a 1GHz Pentium 3 chip with 256MB of RAM. Now you need a quad core 3GHz chip and 8GB RAM just to run a chat app reliably. Where did we go wrong?
They ran fine on machines a hell of a lot weaker than that. If you had an actually-good desktop OS (uh, BeOS is the only example I know of—Linux, at the time, couldn't do this, even with minimalist window managers) you could even browse the web, have chat open, and be playing mp3s, and not hear so much as a pop or skip on the music, on a 166MHz Pentium (that's a single core, kiddos) with 128MB (luxury!) of memory.
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#8There 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…
So then I guess the advice is, if you have to use Discord, stick to the web version?
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#9There 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…
I yarn for the simpler days of IRC, Pidgin and Skype where these apps ran fine on a 1GHz Pentium 3 chip with 256MB of RAM. Now you need a quad core 3GHz chip and 8GB RAM just to run a chat app reliably. Where did we go wrong?
I don't knit, but none of those do what Discord does, really: effective group chat + in game voice. Skype is sort of is in that direction, but Discord's UX nails it for in-game chat whereas Skype's did not. (Though it has been a while since I ran Skype for more than "oh, that's the only medium that party supports? I guess if we have to…")
I do feel that these apps these days, Discord included, eat a ton of resources, and that it feels like a regression.
Re: When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
#10There 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…
So then I guess the advice is, if you have to use Discord, stick to the web version?
That, or use armcord if you want something that lives outside the browser session.