But a chrome-based design means it can only be so efficient.
Discord is working on a new mode for its social platform that it says could be less resource intensive. Screenshots of an option called Game Mode began circulating on social media over the weekend. The description shown for the game mode toggle says that it “Reduces Discord’s CPU and GPU usage while a game is running.” By making the chat platform less resource intensive, concurrently running software should be able to run more smoothly.
Today, the company on X confirmed that this experimental mode will start rolling out to its users next week. The brief official announcement about the game mode added that Discord “aims to add more resource-saving features over time.”
Discord is based on the Electron web app framework, which uses Javascript and Chromium to create software. The open-source Chromium, which is the basis for Google Chrome and several other browsers, is not known as the most efficient tool for web development. A feature like game mode could offer some performance improvements, especially while also running a beefy AAA game on the same machine, but it can only go so far as Discord is able to streamline its current architecture.