What’s up guys, in this short tutorial, I will show you how to prevent framerate
drops and lag while streaming on your Discord application on your Windows PC.
This should be quite an easy tutorial, for more information, click on the
first link in the description below.
First of all, open up Discord and
navigate to your user settings.
Here, under Advanced, make sure to
disable the Hardware Acceleration option.
This will prevent the Discord application from
utilizing your GPU to help run the application and render your stream. This will help a lot
when trying to stream gameplay, as in most cases, your GPU will be used to
run the game on your PC.
You might need to restart Discord
after disabling this option.
When this is done, navigate to
your Voice & Video settings tab.
Here, scroll down and under Video Codec,
disable the OpenH264 Video Codec option, which will in turn also disable the
H.264 Hardware acceleration option.
Again, this will prevent your graphics card from
being utilized to run your Discord streams.
Below, under Quality of Service, disable the
Quality of Service high packet priority option. This will prevent lag caused by a bottlenecked
network connection caused by this option.
Under Screen Share, you can enable or disable the Use our latest technology to
capture your screen option.
This can in some cases help, and will largely
depend on some other factors on your PC. I suggest disabling it first, and if it causes
any issues, then enable this option again.
After going over your Discord user settings,
make sure to open up your Task Manager.
Simply search for it in your
start menu search and hit enter.
Here, in the Processes tab, make sure to
end some unnecessary programs running in the background which you don’t need while
streaming some gameplay on Discord.
Adobe and Office applications can be taxing
on your performance and use up your network bandwidth, causing lag on your streams.
You should also make sure that your graphics driver is up to date.
I suggest using the GeForce Experience application if you’re using an NVIDIA GPU, but you
can also use the AMD driver suite.
In the Drivers tab, simply click on Download
and the application will automatically download and install the latest driver.
Repeat this step at least a few times a year to make sure that you get the
most out of your hardware.
In general, reducing the
resolution of your streams to 720p instead of 1080 can have a lot of impact
on the performance of your stream, as the higher the stream resolution, the higher
the CPU and GPU usage on your PC. This will only be applicable for Discord Nitro users, as the
720p option is the default for all other users.
In case you have any further issues
or problems following this tutorial, then I suggest following my extensive
guide linked in the description below.
I hope this helped you out, leave a comment if you
have any questions and see you in the next one.
