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Discord's new resource-light 'Game Mode' doesn't mention anything about reducing memory usage
Discord has introduced a new 'Game Mode' designed to reduce CPU and GPU usage while a game is running. However, the feature notably does not address the application's significant memory footprint, which remains a concern for users, especially given the underlying Electron framework. Discord has indicated plans to implement more resource-saving features in the future.
Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered — a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU…
Discord is developing a new 'Game Mode' feature aimed at reducing its CPU and GPU consumption while users are gaming. This feature appears to be an automatic toggle for the existing 'Reduced Motion' setting, intended to disable animations and effects when a game is detected, potentially improving in-game performance. However, it remains unclear if this will address Discord's significant RAM usage or improve resource consumption during screen sharing.
Touch grass? Not when AMD has whittled down ray tracing memory usage by 98% for these hardware-sapping bushes and trees
AMD has developed a new technique using 'tetrahedral cages' to significantly reduce ray tracing memory usage for rendering dense foliage in games. This innovation cuts potential memory requirements by 98%, from 80 GB to 1.7 GB, and drastically improves frame rendering times from 300 ms to 3.3 ms per frame. While still a research demonstration, the technology shows promise for improving performance in graphically demanding scenes.
Evening Tech Bits
A long-standing Windows feature has been identified as a persistent cause of excessive RAM consumption for users. Despite being a known issue for years, Microsoft has not yet implemented a fix for this problem.