Discord is slowing down graphics card reminiscence clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A latest Discord replace has launched a bug that slows down reminiscence clocks by as much as 200Hz on some Nvidia fashions, together with the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti. Nvidia says it’s engaged on a repair.
Reddit customers and Linus Tech Ideas discussion board posters noticed the bug, and Nvidia was fast to acknowledge the issue and supply a brief workaround. When you discover your reminiscence clocks are dropping by as much as 200Hz, you’ll be able to obtain a GeForce 3D profile supervisor and apply a repair early. The total particulars are accessible in an Nvidia assist article, however when you’re prepared to attend, Nvidia says a repair might be despatched to customers’ PCs “by way of an over the air replace at a later date.”
Discord lately began rolling out an replace that allows AV1 streaming with GeForce RTX 40-series playing cards. This replace seems to have launched the reminiscence clock points on some RTX 30-series playing cards, however Reddit customers with RTX 40-series playing cards haven’t skilled the identical slowdowns.
The Discord replace began rolling out final week, permitting RTX 40-series house owners to stream with AV1 at as much as 4K and 60fps with Discord Nitro at 8Mbps. Discord customers that don’t have a GPU able to decoding AV1 will see an H.264 stream, as Discord makes use of P2P streaming and can robotically change over to H.264 so everybody watching your stream can see it.
