I was looking for some information on the upcoming TeamSpeak 5, when I stumbled upon a post from a former Discord user who stated he uses TeamSpeak now because his FPS goes down while using Discord. He said Discord supposedly uses GPU resources in addition to CPU resources. He said the Discord app is actually like a mini web browser, which is why it uses GPU resources, so I thought I would give it a test and see for myself. During the test I observed the Discord GPU spike as high 6.7%, although only for a moment. TeamSpeak does not use any GPU resources, and only uses a small amount of CPU.

 

Just some food for thought...

 

I'm keying both TS3 and Discord at the same time

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MNXGt0Vn4

another great reason for TS5 to hurry up and get released!!!

May want to try this:

We have a LOT of video cameras where we work and managers like to keep the cameras from their areas up just to keep tabs on whats going on. They have crappy performance while the viewer is launched but if they keep the viewer minimized when not being actively looked at the GPU and memory usage goes way down. Its basically a browser as well. I'd be curious if a) the resource usage goes down if its minimized and b) if all the hot keys etc still work while minimized.

You are a smart guy, @NetRngr. I tested again with Discord minimized and having closed to the system tray. It showed 0% GPU (although the app was active), and no signs of GPU usage at all when it was closed to the system tray.

 

So the moral of the story is, don't run Discord with the Window opened, because it will use GPU resources. This also made me think that we probably shouldn't have our Internet browsers opened either during game play.