Discord Calls lagging games?

[salmonboyak]

GPU: GTX 1050 2gb,
CPU: I5 7500
RAM: 8GB
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS

So I’ve been noticing that my frames are dropping in games whenever I’m in a discord call, now I know discord doesn’t use the GPU, (I did turn off GPU acceleration but that made no difference) One game in particular; Fortnite, drops about 12-20 frames lower than my usual frame rate. I have nothing else in the background running, and my game runs perfectly fine when I’m NOT in a discord call.

Really unsure of why this is happening, and it shouldn’t be happening. If anyone knows what’s going on please inform me, thanks for your time and help.

 

[Le Snerk]

Its not really the GPU it can be the CPU and mainly the RAM because background tasks like that consume a lot of RAM usuage and some CPU. So just join a server instead of a call. This is mainly discords fault since it has been doing this recently.

 

[TerryLaze]

The main thing discord is using up is your upload and in turn a high upload could increase your PING by a lot,a high ping in online games will cause your screen to be updated less often.

 

[salmonboyak]

The main thing discord is using up is your upload and in turn a high upload could increase your PING by a lot,a high ping in online games will cause your screen to be updated less often.

is there any way to fix this? I really want to be able to fix this issue.

 

[TerryLaze]

You can find a lot of guides on the internet,search for quality of service.
(If there is a setting to lower quality in discord do that first,lower quality equals less bandwith used)
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-tune-your-network-for-gaming/

 

[salmonboyak]

You can find a lot of guides on the internet,search for quality of service.
(If there is a setting to lower quality in discord do that first,lower quality equals less bandwith used)
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-tune-your-network-for-gaming/

hm I tried the Fortnite in game voice chat and it appears to have the same affect, my internet is actually decent, (22mbps download and 4mbps upload), so I guess it wouldn't hurt to give this a go. Though, would it be wiser to use an ethernet cable instead of a wireless card?

 

[TerryLaze]

Though, would it be wiser to use an ethernet cable instead of a wireless card?

You could try that to see if there is a problem with the wifi driver,if the connection is stable it shouldn't make any difference otherwise.