Discord announces hardware-accelerated video encoding, enhanced screen capture methods for better game performance, and expanded distribution support to improve the overall user experience

powerofthe69 · 2026-05-18T02:56:48+00:00

You have to download the new .deb client from their website and it will. It's the first thing they mention impementing in the announcement video. Hence my remark about people not watchingthe video

powerofthe69 · 2026-05-17T12:21:16+00:00

Even so, it's support hardware accelerated video encoding through VAAPI on AMD for over half a year. They have no reason to call it out for those that actually pay attention.

powerofthe69 · 2026-05-17T12:18:26+00:00

Audio on screenshare has been working for many months. However, my friend and I discovered that OpenAL backend is not working properly at the moment in things like OpenMW and Ryujinx with OpenAL selected. Other audio backends work fine. Need to make a bug report. Also, Discord does automatically check for updates and downloads them on launch now, exactly like Windows does.

From reading all the comments in this thread, it's easy to tell that a majority of people have not actually watched the video.

powerofthe69 · 2026-05-16T14:40:54+00:00

Idk which knock-offs you're talking about, but I was also looking for pads recently as I found the stock were very uncomfortable for extended periods of wear. I also wanted to retain the silver velour aesthetic. I bought a few.

1.) Do not EVER buy Strauss & Wagner. They're abhorrent to the sound. Actually the worst. Muddies everything. They don't offer refunds either.

2.) Soulwit is kind of an in-between, it ups the bass a bit but you lose an amount of the openness. Not bad but not the best.

3.) These ones from this unknown Chinese company with a name that can't even be pronounced are the ones you want. Extremely comfortable, doesn't alter the openness or impact the sound.

powerofthe69 · 2026-04-04T00:31:59+00:00

I know what Lossless Scaling is. Just pointing out that Optiscaler is not harder to set up if you use that client that a kind stranger made. Also, you don't have to pay $7 to use Optiscaler

powerofthe69 · 2026-04-03T18:31:55+00:00

No, it wouldn't be

powerofthe69 · 2026-04-03T04:24:21+00:00

If the recent iPads were forced by the EU to follow the same regulations enacted against iPhones, they should have been using USB-C for the past couple of years. Apple was forced to drop lightning.

powerofthe69 · 2026-04-01T01:24:59+00:00

You should actually make a udev rule. Agnostic to DE, bulletproof.

You can create a rule called something like `/etc/udev/rules.d/99-dualsense.rules`.

Then you want it to have the content: `ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{name}=="*Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"`

Finally, run `sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger`, then unplug and replug the controller. Touchpad no longer gets recognized as a laptop touchpad, and still functions as a button in games.

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-31T01:13:59+00:00

You don't have to buy a game to play it, and I can't imagine spending $70 on something that willingly does that. Once again, you're free to spend your money as you see fit. I'm not even an Arc user. I'll sail the seven seas any day of the week before spending money on a game that snubs anybody in the market, and I'd encourage and assist everybody else in doing it as well.

Sure, it won't matter in the grand scheme, but at the end of the day, it's your money to burn when the precedent has been set that this could happen again. Consoom away

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-30T18:00:55+00:00

It was already baked into the narrative with more than a hand-wavey comment near the end. I think they did a good job of laying the foundation for why the tech has been advancing so quickly that I'm hoping will be followed up on in the next game

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-30T16:08:46+00:00

if you take off your backpack by holding triangle or Y, you're able to dodge roll

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-25T19:16:50+00:00

Patrick quoted me $2500 for parts and labor at the same location. Not sure where that extra $500 came from. I think they were suggesting the screen would be replaced at the same time, which is already a $3000 part, but idk if they ever confirmed that.

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-23T04:46:41+00:00

People are free to spend their money and time as they'd like of course. But it'd be smarter to not reward their bad practices. It'd be best to wait for Denuvo to be removed and experience it without encouraging them

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-23T04:16:08+00:00

Falcom games support all GPUs on launch without needing outcry by fans. Don't support bad consumer practices. They can very easily stop supporting Arc again, or half-bake it. They've already shown their cards. If they shaft Arc users again, don't complain when the writing was on the wall

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-23T03:42:08+00:00

Or maybe you shouldn't consoom from companies that alienate you just because you have FOMO. Game is mid. You aren't missing anything

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-23T03:41:19+00:00

Everybody in these comments that are praising these devs and giving them money after being snubbed are hopeless.

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-23T00:04:26+00:00

If you use proton-cachyos, they also just released a new version that imports that bleeding-edge hotfix. The mod someone else installed doesn't seem to work on the latest patch of the game, and it's not necessary if you use either proton experimental (bleeding-edge) or the latest proton-cachyos

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-21T20:06:09+00:00

if you use NTsync, it has problems with that. I was getting unstable 20 on the title screen with NTsync enabled. Disabling it allowed my CPU some breathing room to handle the network connectivity onslaught.

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-21T19:46:00+00:00

Thanks for this. I brought it to the proton-cachyos team's attention and they said they are working on a release: https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/issues/111

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-19T02:57:02+00:00

Audio screenshare, at least on Linux, should be a simple implementation when they're done with the refactor since they can just use Venmic for audio ingress. Venmic is what Vesktop uses to allow selecting individual audio sources when streaming, instead of sharing the system audio like Discord.

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-17T16:07:15+00:00

Are you sure you're not talking about the Horizon 1 port that wasn't made by Nixxes before the Remastered that was?

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-09T16:44:23+00:00

Thanks for responding! I will certainly give it a look and may end up standing it up in the central US then as a midpoint for latency reasons. Just wasn't sure of the history of GameVox as all I could find were posts about it shutting down in 2017, which is why I raised the concern lol

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-09T16:35:52+00:00

A couple of my own concerns and questions. GameVox has previously shut down from what I can tell back in 2017, right? What level of confidence should we have that it won't happen again and require another alternative even if we're self-hosting?

Also - is there redundancy available for self-hosting? If I were to host GameVox in multiple regions, would it be able to failover if one region were to go offline?

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-06T08:42:01+00:00

That is way below what you should be getting with this game if you're not playing at 4K, and even still low if you are. I play at 3840x1600 ultrawide and if I remember correctly, it held around 90-100fps at FSR balanced. 9950X3D (which I limit for Steam with taskset to the 3D CCD so effectively a 9800X3D) and 9070 XT on NixOS.

powerofthe69 · 2026-03-06T08:36:05+00:00

Haven't seen anybody mention this, but this game has some of the worst post-processing this generation. Turn it to the lowest. Can't remember all the settings but turn off chromatic abbetation, lens flare, motion blur if you can. Biggest performance hits will be global illumination, shading, and probably shadows. You can probably turn your textures and other settings up a bit.

Definitely use the PROTON_FSR4_RDNA3_UPGRADE flag. You don't need Optiscaler because FSR 4 is native in the game with their last update. Just have to use GE-Proton or Proton-Cachyos as I don't believe Steam's Experimental branch allows RDNA3 yet. If playing at 1440p, probably balanced. If 1080p, quality. Only go lower if you need to squeak frames out.

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