Video CPU Demand

Hello,

Me and my friends are a community of online hobbyists. We've been friends for 5 years for me, upwards of 10+ for others. Recently our cam chat website we were using began having some serious issues, so as we already used Discord for voice chat we did the easiest thing and moved our video chat to our voice chat Discord server.

As we have a wide variety of members we've began to notice a lot of them stopped showing up, or never cam up to 'hang out' anymore. After much discussion it seems there are two primary reasons for this:

Discord eats up CPU and RAM resources heavily, per cam in any chat.
We can't share videos/music in the same fashion as we did before (A group play video function exists in many cam chat websites).

So as an able minded group of diverse individuals we handled the second issue by having one of our programmer members make a bot that plays music in chat, unfortunately it can't play video too (I'm not very programmer knowledgeable so I'm not sure why we can't but I hear it's not possible).

But the first issue is a difficult one. I actually just upgraded my CPU and RAM from 5 years ago and I'm still having issues with the resources being hogged (albeit while I run OBS, xsplit Vcam, and Dual Universe) by Discord cams unless I close a bunch of cameras or just click on a text chat to save a ton of resources at the tradeoff of not hanging out with my friends as much.

I was wondering if there was any way we could have a low resource cam mode, or something. I'm sure we would have people still use high quality cams but I know quite a few 'regulars' who haven't been since our move to Discord who I could definitely convince to come back if we had an opportunity to try to make Discord run better on the average PC.

Thanks for ear!

-Blaithe

bryan

6 de outubro de 2020 00:31
Editado

Hi Blaithe!

Alright, so from reading this little passage you made, I can assume that discord's been taking up a lot of RAM and CPU, and you can't play videos in a group. I'm sure I can possibly help you with this one.

Discord does use a lot of Ram and CPU, and I've seen possibilities of no chance to fix this manually, and waiting for the developers of the app to do something. I would try putting on Hardware Acceleration. This makes it so it uses your GPU for smoother situations and interfaces on discord. If you want to navigate to this option.

-Go to your user settings, it's on the bottom of your screen where your name and profile picture is, it's the little gear icon. |
-Click on appearance and scroll down to find Hardware Acceleration. Enable this option.

If it's already enabled and you're still experiencing CPU and RAM usage, maybe close some background apps, or what I did to fix this problem for myself was to actually turn this feature off. I found a significant boost in CPU and RAM open up. Hope this helps!

Also for the video feature, you're able to screen share a screen like Google Chrome or Brave Browser, whatever you use, and you can play a YouTube video or whatever and it'll play audio and the video as long as they are watching it. If it's a full screen screenshare, it will share video, but not the audio.

-Bryan

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