Discord Is Cutting Out In-Game! HELP!

[Meeks]

Whenever I'm in a game, discord loses connection. This only happens when I'm in a game(When the round starts) and it happens throughout the game not randomly and not just one rounds. It doesn't happen on character select, menus, or whenever I alt+tab and open up discord.

Any tips on how to fix this?

[duckhost]

my friend has the same problem, did you fix it?

[✌Husker54✌]

Yea this is been an issue for years and both sides wont take the blame. its because discord is based off chrome and rainbow 6 doesnt like chrome taking up CPU usage . It only likes it when rainbow 6 is the only thing running. I have had this issue for years and im as i type this using my phone to talk to people on discord while i play r6. welcome to hell.

[kz_fReez]

yeah its something to do with ur cpu setting r6 to max priority in task manager. used to happen to me until i rebuilt my pc lol

[✌Husker54✌]

Originally posted by Roy huck:

yeah its something to do with ur cpu setting r6 to max priority in task manager. used to happen to me until i rebuilt my pc lol

still does it ya fat nerd

[Mr. Ron Hands]

yea, i've been using discord for every game for as long as its been out wihtout a problem. i come to this thread because i thought i may have a solution but you specifically said when 'round starts'. well if its not affecting everyone then its an individual problem ofcourse. just saying if it were me and i "had" to use a secondary voice channel besides ingame i'd just switch to vent, ts, raidcall. something.

[Meeks]

Ok, after messing around with my settings, pc and other stuff, I finally found the problem. It is not because of CPU usage. When I play Siege, my CPU would always be at 100% and I thought that was the issue but it's not. To try and fix the 100% CPU usage, I turned on VSync to "2" and sat my FPS limit to "60". This lowered my CPU usage to a constant 80% but Discord was still messing up.

So earlier today, I decided to use my 2nd monitor and kept Discord open in that monitor and this SOLVED the problem. The problem was because Discord is closed but minimized(HIDDEN but running). I would always close Discord and have it in the hidden icons on the taskbar and not actually just minimize the app to be showing on the taskbar. Then, I put my settings back to the normal settings I always play on and CPU usage went back to 100% BUT Discord was still working properly.

[Meeks]

Originally posted by duck:

my friend has the same problem, did you fix it?

Keep Discord open on desktop. Happens to me when I press the "X" on discord and have it hidden in the hidden task bar icons

[✌Husker54✌]

Originally posted by Firewall Denied:

Ok, after messing around with my settings, pc and other stuff, I finally found the problem. It is not because of CPU usage. When I play Siege, my CPU would always be at 100% and I thought that was the issue but it's not. To try and fix the 100% CPU usage, I turned on VSync to "2" and sat my FPS limit to "60". This lowered my CPU usage to a constant 80% but Discord was still messing up.

So earlier today, I decided to use my 2nd monitor and kept Discord open in that monitor and this SOLVED the problem. The problem was because Discord is closed but minimized(HIDDEN but running). I would always close Discord and have it in the hidden icons on the taskbar and not actually just minimize the app to be showing on the taskbar. Then, I put my settings back to the normal settings I always play on and CPU usage went back to 100% BUT Discord was still working properly.

Problem is and you will notice this v-sync is broken in seige and will cause you to drop to 59 fps in fluctions even if you are capable of 100.

[Gryph]

Okay, so I'm still having that problem with the game, and here are the solutions I've tried:

- Closing every other application other than Discord and R6S
- Lowering most graphics on R6S
- Run Discord as admin
- Turn off or on Windows game mode
- Maximize Discord
- Disable all input/output devices other than the ones used
- Turning hardware acceleration on or off in Discord
- Trying different audio subsystems in Discord
- Reduce priority of R6S to above normal while Discord is at high
- Reducing or increasing voice channel bitrate
- Lowering R6S FPS cap to 65 fps from 71 fps
- Enabling or Disabling Threaded Optimization in Nvidia Control Panel
- Setting pre-rendered frames to 4 from 1 in Nvidia Control Panel

Honestly, it's getting a bit ridiculous and I probably forgot to list some things I've tried to do. I'm really out of ideas. I will try to run Discord on Google Chrome or Firefox next.

[Spektater]

I know this is an old thread, but just thought I could help:

if you're running Windows 10, chances are it's the Game Mode interfering. Disable Game mode and Discord should work just fine while playing :D