Discord is among the most prominent apps gamers use when chatting and has gotten a new feature that’s a severe drain on the CPU when active.<\/p>\n
The app allows users to create servers, interact via text and voice calls, upload files and play music. As a result, it has become the go-to app for gamers and hobbyists.<\/p>\n
Discord has released a party mode feature to celebrate the app’s seventh anniversary.<\/p>\n
This visual and audio feature adds several entertaining effects to the app’s functions, such as confetti, a combo counter for typing, and even a cheering crowd with screen shaking.<\/p>\n
It is a minor visual feature intended to be a bit of fun rather than a dedicated new function for the app.<\/p>\n
However, this new feature is quite taxing on the CPU.<\/p>\n
Users have reported that CPU usage sky-rockets to levels above 20% usage when the function is turned on.<\/p>\n
This is problematic as Discord is ideally meant to run in the background, consuming few resources and allowing your PC to dedicate its processing power to your game.<\/p>\n
As a result, having this feature turned on when gaming is not recommended.<\/p>\n
However, the feature is turned off by default and easily switched on and off, so you only have to worry about its CPU drain if you\u2019re keen on the idea.<\/p>\n