Discord has grow to be the go-to chat and calling app for PC gamers over the previous few years. If you’re taking part in multiplayer video games together with your buds, you most likely have it put in in your PC, and many individuals have it configured to begin when their laptop boots. That’s why its newest bug is irksome: A latest Discord replace is making Nvidia GeForce graphics cards run slower. Fortunately, there’s a workaround out there.

“After a recent update to the Discord app, users may notice that the graphics card memory clocks will not reach full speeds when launching a game,” Nvidia mentioned in a new support page. Reddit customers report the reminiscence clocks drop by 200MHz with Discord open, which shouldn’t virtually have an effect on gaming efficiency a lot, however is nonetheless clearly not ultimate.

Since Nvidia didn’t point out particularly affected fashions, we assume that all GeForce graphics playing cards may very well be affected. The firm is engaged on rolling out a correct repair to all customers at a later date, however if you wish to cease the reminiscence nerf proper now, Nvidia defined how to take action. It’s difficult, but additionally pretty easy. Here are the steps, quoted verbatim from Nvidia’s assist web page:

• Click here to obtain the NVIDIA program GeForce 3D Profile Manager. 
• Open the GeForce 3D Profile Manager.    
• Click on the button Export SLI Profiles. 
• A file explorer window will pop up. Select a location to export and save the NVIDIA Profiles textual content file.  
• Open the textual content file saved in step 4 utilizing Notepad (or any program that doesn’t mechanically apply formatting). 
• Perform a seek for the part “Discord”. Add a brand new line and kind the next textual content as proven within the screenshot beneath: Setting ID_0x50166c5e = 0x00000000 

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• Save the edited NVIDIA Profiles as a txt file.  
• Go again to the GeForce 3D Profile Manager and click on on the Import SLI Profiles button.     
• A file explorer window will seem. Select the up to date “NVIDIA Profiles.txt” file after which click on on the Open button.   
• Once accomplished, it’s possible you’ll shut the GeForce 3D Profile Manager utility.

After that, you’ll be able to return to operating Discord with out worrying about whether or not it’s holding your Nvidia graphics card again. Happy gaming!