{"id":1506222,"date":"2026-02-22T11:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CWrHkpXxbP3MRe7XwEkEzG"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:21:25","slug":"some-users-are-claiming-discords-default-process-priorities-are-causing-performance-problems-in-esports-games-so-ive-tested-it-myself-to-see-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/some-users-are-claiming-discords-default-process-priorities-are-causing-performance-problems-in-esports-games-so-ive-tested-it-myself-to-see-whats-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Some users are claiming Discord&#8217;s default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I&#8217;ve tested it myself to see what&#8217;s going on"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>If you&#8217;re serious about your competitive shooters, you&#8217;ll know that every single frame per second counts, so anything that gets in the way of that is something to be avoided. But what if the software you&#8217;re using to chat with teammates is actually making things worse? According to some folks, that&#8217;s precisely what <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/ive-tested-three-free-discord-alternatives-in-a-desperate-attempt-not-to-offer-up-my-personal-data-just-to-talk-to-my-favorite-weirdos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discord<\/a> is doing, and it&#8217;s because of process priorities.<\/p>\n<p>First, let me just say that this doesn&#8217;t seem to be a particularly widely reported issue, but we have noticed various claims cropping up on social media that Discord&#8217;s default process priorities are too high. This, in turn, takes up too much of your CPU&#8217;s time, resulting in lower frame rates, spikes in frame times, and whatnot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Discord is secretly running at Real Time priority on your PC.This causes frametime spikes in CS2, Valorant, and basically every competitive game.Fix: Task Manager \u2192 Details \u2192 Discord.exe \u2192 Set Priority \u2192 NormalOne change. Instant smoother gameplay. pic.twitter.com\/aopxzcmGXd<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2024510000119324709\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>AQ &#8216;process priority&#8217; is a value given to programs that lets the operating system know how much of the CPU&#8217;s time and resources should be dedicated to the task, compared to all the other processes it&#8217;s juggling. A default value of &#8216;Normal&#8217; means that it doesn&#8217;t get priority over anything else, and the OS can just do what it needs to do to manage everything.<\/p>\n<p>In Windows, process priority can be set higher than this: Above Normal, High and Realtime force the system to push a program ahead of everything else. In the case of the Windows Discord app, it actually has eight processes running when it&#8217;s active, and although five of them have Normal priorities, one defaults to Above Normal, and two labelled as &#8216;DiscordSystemHelper&#8217; run with High priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this is what some folks are complaining about, I decided to check it all out for myself, running <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/initial-impressions-of-counter-strike-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Counter-Strike 2<\/a> at 1080p, with Low graphics, FSR Performance upscaling, and Nvidia Reflex enabled on a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/processors\/amd-ryzen-9-9900x-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryzen 9 9900X<\/a> rig with an <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-fe-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5090<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jwplayer__widthsetter\">\n<div class=\"jwplayer__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"futr_botr_aREjHWdE_NJExfM5n_div\" class=\"future__jwplayer\" data-player-id=\"NJExfM5n\" data-playlist-id=\"aREjHWdE\">\n<div id=\"botr_aREjHWdE_NJExfM5n_div\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other than the fact that I truly suck at CS2 (I mean, <em>seriously bad<\/em>), there&#8217;s pretty much nothing untoward that I saw in my testing. The above video clip compares three bot matches: Without Discord running, with Discord open in the background but with default priorities, and then one more where I forced every Discord process priority to Normal.<\/p>\n<p>If you look closely at the frame time graph underneath the D3D11 performance figures (average fps and 1% low fps), you&#8217;ll see that they run pretty much identically. The frame times are <em>fractionally<\/em> higher when Discord is running, but we&#8217;re talking a millisecond here, a millisecond there.<\/p>\n<p>That might matter in a professional esports competition, but the rigs every combatant will be using will be the same (or <em>should<\/em> be the same), so nobody would be at a loss. If it&#8217;s just yourself playing with friends, albeit competitively so, then it&#8217;s still not really enough of a performance impact to warrant concern.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"8tVmoK9jzeTU7ZpbHq74WC\" name=\"task_manager_details_view_process_priority\" alt=\"A screenshot of Windows 11's Task Manager, showing the Details page and the default priority for one of Discord's multiple processes\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/some-users-are-claiming-discords-default-process-priorities-are-causing-performance-problems-in-esports-games-so-ive-tested-it-myself-to-see-whats-going-on.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/some-users-are-claiming-discords-default-process-priorities-are-causing-performance-problems-in-esports-games-so-ive-tested-it-myself-to-see-whats-going-on.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Microsoft)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, this is just <em>one<\/em> test, on <em>one <\/em>PC, in <em>one<\/em> game. In other words, it&#8217;s nowhere near enough evidence to comprehensively state that Discord&#8217;s default priorities are a problem. But if you are worried about it all, then it&#8217;s easy enough to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>Just get Discord going, then fire up Task Manager (right-click on the Taskbar or Start Menu button). Then head to the Details page, scroll to the relevant process, and right-click on that. Scoot down to Set Priority, choose Normal, and then confirm the selection.<\/p>\n<p>You might find that on <em>your<\/em> PC, it gives your games a little more CPU breathing space, but if I&#8217;m to be honest, Discord is pretty light in terms of processor demand, and if that app&#8217;s giving your PC grief, then games are never going to be running super smoothly anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and don&#8217;t be tempted to try and force more performance by setting a game&#8217;s priority to High or, heaven help you, Realtime. It&#8217;s unlikely to make a blind bit of difference, and in the case of Realtime mode, it&#8217;ll just make things <em>very<\/em> unstable. So don&#8217;t do it, alright?<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/some-users-are-claiming-discords-default-process-priorities-are-causing-performance-problems-in-esports-games-so-ive-tested-it-myself-to-see-whats-going-on\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re serious about your competitive shooters, you&#8217;ll know that every single frame per second counts, so anything that gets in the way of that is something to be avoided. But what if the software you&#8217;re using to chat with teammates is actually making things worse? According to some folks, that&#8217;s precisely what Discord is doing, and it&#8217;s because of process priorities. First, let me just say that this doesn&#8217;t seem to be a particularly widely reported issue, but we have noticed various claims cropping up on social media that Discord&#8217;s default process priorities are too high. This, in turn, takes up too much of your CPU&#8217;s time, resulting in lower frame rates, spikes in frame times, and whatnot. Discord is secretly running at Real&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/some-users-are-claiming-discords-default-process-priorities-are-causing-performance-problems-in-esports-games-so-ive-tested-it-myself-to-see-whats-going-on\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1506222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some users are claiming Discord&#039;s default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I&#039;ve tested it myself to see what&#039;s 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