NVIDIA has released a fix for a recently discovered issue where leaving Discord open in the background limited the performance of some graphics cards.
According to a tweet from the company, the patch will download automatically when you log into Windows, so you don’t have to go through the trouble of manually downloading a graphics driver or other software update.
Recently, some users of cards like the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti started reporting an issue that was supposedly caused by a recent Discord update. The problem caused the GPUs not to reach their maximum memory clocks, missing around 200Mhz. This brought a small performance penalty when playing, which isn’t exactly ideal as Discord is designed to help you chat with friends while gaming.
GeForce users can now download an app profile update for Discord. This resolves a recent issue where some GeForce GPUs memory clocks did not reach full speed w/ Discord running in the background. The update automatically downloads to your PC the next time you log into Windows. pic.twitter.com/89nwugWQFF
— NVIDIA Customer Care (@nvidiacc) February 3, 2023
According to NVIDIA, the fix comes as an application profile update. It used to be possible to apply it manually, but the process wasn’t exactly straightforward and involved downloading a profiler and then exporting, editing and re-importing profiles.
This is certainly good news for users. Discord has become the main communication platform between players, both on PC and consoles, even more so after recent integrations with Xbox and PlayStation.
Were you experiencing GPU performance drops when using Discord?
