NVIDIA has begun rolling out a fix for a bug that had caused some of its GPUs to perform worse while people had Discord open. in a seen by , the company said that Windows will now automatically download an app profile update the next time users sign in to their PC. The update resolves an issue that prevented some NVIDIA GPUs, including RTX 30 series models like and , from boosting their memory as fast as possible when Discord was open in the background. In some cases, NVIDIA users have reported that their video cards slowed down by as much as 200 MHz, resulting in a modest performance drop in most games.
GeForce users can now download an app profile update for Discord. This resolves a recent issue where some GeForce GPU memory clocks were not reaching full speed with Discord running in the background. The update is automatically downloaded to your PC the next time you sign in to Windows. pic.twitter.com/89nwugWQFF
— NVIDIA Customer Support (@nvidiacc) February 3, 2023
and Forum users were among the first to spot and document the issue. The bug was introduced in a recent Discord update that added AV1 codec support. With the new codec, RTX 40 series users can stream their gameplay in up to 4K and 60 frames per second in . The bug did not appear to affect RTX 40 series cards. That being said, NVIDIA was quick to acknowledge the issue and offered .
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