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So this is an Nvidia-side bug, rather than a Discord-side bug? But Discord's new feature simply exposes it?

by snet0 4y ago

jhgg 4y ago
Correct.
- Aachen 4y ago
  I mean, that's what it sounds like when reading the headline. Card not reaching full speed under <condition> is an issue with the card. Impaired performance could be from <condition> occupying it, but that's not what it says (it sounds like clock scaling or something). That you've been investigating this for Nvidia is very nice of you!
  - kirkules 4y ago
    Discord has a large contingent of gamers among its users who expect to be able to use discord to communicate while gaming, so even if this isn't Discord's fault it's in their interest to look into it and facilitate a solution
  - hn92726819 4y ago
    > but that's not what it says That's one interpretation. But it could also read as "Discord bug instructs Nvidia card to throttle when in background". The title should have specified the bug was on Nvidia's end
    - magicalhippo 4y ago
      A more likely scenario IMHO would have been "Discord causes excessive background GPU usage, causing throttling".
      - hn92726819 4y ago
        Either way, it looks like it's Discord's problem when it isn't > more likely I'll agree to disagree here though. That seems significantly less likely to me. I haven't heard of excessive CPU/GPU usage causing throttling, unless it's temperature related. Normally when you have high CPU usage, your clock speeds up not slows down. But in that case, the problem is high heat or 100% usage, not the side effect that happens to be throttling.
        magicalhippo 4y ago
        > unless it's temperature related That was indeed the case I was thinking of. It's easy to generate a lot of GPU load with minimal CPU load with some GPGPU process going haywire, for example.
    - mosselman 4y ago
      > But it could also read as "Discord bug instructs Nvidia card to throttle when in background". That is how I read it
  - thewataccount 4y ago
    My immediate thought was "Oh it's hardware acceleration must be using up/reserving resources" which is decently common especially among chromium/electron based programs.
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So this is an Nvidia-side bug, rather than a Discord-side bug? But Discord's new feature simply exposes it?

by snet0 4y ago

So this is an Nvidia-side bug, rather than a Discord-side bug? But Discord's new feature simply exposes it?

jhgg 4y ago

Correct.

Aachen 4y ago
I mean, that's what it sounds like when reading the headline. Card not reaching full speed under <condition> is an issue with the card. Impaired performance could be from <condition> occupying it, but that's not what it says (it sounds like clock scaling or something). That you've been investigating this for Nvidia is very nice of you!
- kirkules 4y ago
  Discord has a large contingent of gamers among its users who expect to be able to use discord to communicate while gaming, so even if this isn't Discord's fault it's in their interest to look into it and facilitate a solution
- hn92726819 4y ago
  > but that's not what it says That's one interpretation. But it could also read as "Discord bug instructs Nvidia card to throttle when in background". The title should have specified the bug was on Nvidia's end
  - magicalhippo 4y ago
    A more likely scenario IMHO would have been "Discord causes excessive background GPU usage, causing throttling".
    - hn92726819 4y ago
      Either way, it looks like it's Discord's problem when it isn't > more likely I'll agree to disagree here though. That seems significantly less likely to me. I haven't heard of excessive CPU/GPU usage causing throttling, unless it's temperature related. Normally when you have high CPU usage, your clock speeds up not slows down. But in that case, the problem is high heat or 100% usage, not the side effect that happens to be throttling.
      - magicalhippo 4y ago
        > unless it's temperature related That was indeed the case I was thinking of. It's easy to generate a lot of GPU load with minimal CPU load with some GPGPU process going haywire, for example.
  - mosselman 4y ago
    > But it could also read as "Discord bug instructs Nvidia card to throttle when in background". That is how I read it
- thewataccount 4y ago
  My immediate thought was "Oh it's hardware acceleration must be using up/reserving resources" which is decently common especially among chromium/electron based programs.

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