Running Discord Lowers NVIDIA GPU Memory Clocks by 200 MHz, Company Posts Workaround

[Scrizz]

I've run into soo many Discord bugs and issues.

 

[A&P211]

No issues with me, I use skype.

 

[Gucky]

Just a Question, do you use Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS) in Windows?
I do and my memoryspeed doesn't go down.
Quote:
"Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling: It allows the video card to directly manage its video memory, which in turn significantly improves the performance of the minimum and average FPS, and thereby reducing latency. It works regardless of the API used for games and applications such as DirectX / Vulkan / OpenGL."

Just a thought...

 

[Exxor]

I lost 600MHz worth of memory bandwidth due to this bug. I run a GTX 960, and its average frequency speed is 3500MHz, and I bumped it 100MHz safely. I lost a lot of performance while playing games due to this bug.

Just a Question, do you use Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS) in Windows?
I do and my memoryspeed doesn't go down.
Quote:
"Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling: It allows the video card to directly manage its video memory, which in turn significantly improves the performance of the minimum and average FPS, and thereby reducing latency. It works regardless of the API used for games and applications such as DirectX / Vulkan / OpenGL."

Just a thought...

I personally do not have this option to change on Windows 10. And I lost performance regardless of whether Discord was using hardware acceleration or not.

 

[Xaled]

So biased title/article, blaming Discord for causing the problem and praising Nvidia for providing the solution. The title should be, something like" Some users report that Nvidia Cards GPU Memory clock decreases by 200MHz when hardware acceleration is in enabled in Discord"


İmo it is still %100 Nvidia problem, if you want software companies to rely on your products, you should take care of that.

I would understand that content creation software ike Da Vinci resolve ,Photoshop, etc could use Hardware acceleration but Why would Discord, or (max, or blender claymode/gray mode viewport) would use 400w or 450w to do something that even an embedded gpu is capable of doing ?

 

[konga]

So biased title/article, blaming Discord for causing the problem and praising Nvidia for providing the solution. The title should be, something like" Some users report that Nvidia Cards GPU Memory clock decreases by 200MHz when hardware acceleration is in enabled in Discord"


İmo it is still %100 Nvidia problem, if you want software companies to rely on your products, you should take care of that.

I would understand that content creation software ike Da Vinci resolve ,Photoshop, etc could use Hardware acceleration but Why would Discord, or (max, or blender claymode/gray mode viewport) would use 400w or 450w to do something that even an embedded gpu is capable of doing ?

Most modern apps use hardware acceleration, including the web browser you used to post this most likely. This isn't new, and they don't use 400 - 450W just because they're hardware accelerated. I have no idea where you got that number from.

 

[Eskimonster]

i use 2 screens, and when i opened Discord, like last year almost, i could feel it sucked hard on my resources. Even youtube on my second screen begun to just sorta pause when i started a fullscreen game. i dont know if its windows or Discord. I use the same games and programs as i use to for the last many years.

 

[TheDeeGee]

I use Discord in my browser, as i have my browser open as soon as i start my PC. I watch Twitch the same way as it allows for adblocking.

 

[bug]

my 2 cents:
Discord uses hw acceleration for almost everything(including video playback) plus extensive HW encode support for video/desktop sharing(nvenc), my guees is that the drivers are putting the card in "video decode" mode and not overriding that when you open a game.

Now i'm super curious and will have to test this when i get back home, 200mhz is not that innocuous, it negates all the overclocking/power limit removal i've done to my gpu

My 2 cents: If there is additional load from another app (Discord in, this case), there will be more power draw, thus it is logical to dial things back when approaching the upper limit. But I'd expect that limit to be GPU's frequency, not VRAM's.

 

[Chomiq]

If Discord was forcing any power limits while gaming then it was a bug. Anyone saying "200 Mhz doesn't matter" is full of it, an app running in the background shouldn't affect GPU clocks for D3D foreground app. Nvidia should also clarify how the update will be downloaded because their twit is filled with people asking about the profile update.

 

[bug]

If Discord was forcing any power limits while gaming then it was a bug. Anyone saying "200 Mhz doesn't matter" is full of it, an app running in the background shouldn't affect GPU clocks for D3D foreground app. Nvidia should also clarify how the update will be downloaded because their twit is filled with people asking about the profile update.

Think about it, if Discord uses the GPU and the games uses the GPU, the loads add up.
Afaiu, Nvidia determined the load from Discord can be ignored, so they updated profiles to push the VRAM disregarding Discord. Here's hoping future Discord versions won't tax the GPU even more.

 

[Gucky]

I lost 600MHz worth of memory bandwidth due to this bug. I run a GTX 960, and its average frequency speed is 3500MHz, and I bumped it 100MHz safely. I lost a lot of performance while playing games due to this bug.


I personally do not have this option to change on Windows 10. And I lost performance regardless of whether Discord was using hardware acceleration or not.

Your GPU is too old and probably the Driver doesn't support hardware accelerated gpu scheduling.