Discord black screen when streaming / watching a stream and gaming.

Hello, I absolutely cannot seem to solve this issue to the point that I'm wondering if my EVGA 3070 is faulty. No matter what game I'm playing (Isaac, MHW, etc), if I'm watching a stream or streaming myself, eventually the screen will randomly flicker (as in, I can't cause this issue to happen every time) and the Discord window will be completely black. Discord still works (people can see my stream and I can speak and hear people) and the UI elements can still be interacted with, but the actual window is black. I've tried everything and I can't seem to narrow down a fix, this includes:

Different versions of Discord including the PTB.
Different video drivers
Disabling Freesync
Disabling Hardware Acceleration
Disabling MSI afterburner
Disable Overlay
Clean Windows install

So even after a completely new Windows install I still get this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks

crosshash

April 18, 2021 13:26

I've investigated this further. I've now reinstalled Windows again, updated the vbios on my GPU and got the latest nvidia driver and it still happens. It weirdly also affects the Steam window as shown here ; in order to fix steam, I found that I could kill the Steam Webhelper task so I wonder if there's something related to Discord here.

I'm going to see if the Windows Event Viewer will shine any light on what's going on here.

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