Can't stream game on discord, FPS dies

[boshaw]

It is odd, and it's the only thing i've ever noticed it on. Also, it's actually not at least in the constrained jvm heap itself after just checking. That seems to be within reasonable sizes after looking at the dumps, the process itself tho as a whole just is consuming and requesting more and more memory. Guessing it's just some bug in the runtime or something it has loaded outside of your control. Just from testing my process went from under 500mb to basically trying to consume all the RAM available over the course of a minute, but the heap itself was still normal sized.

Unfortunate. That makes it even more difficult for me to debug. Does it make a difference what browser Discord is running in ("native" app, Chrome, Firefox, &c)?

It does actually. I usually only use the native app, which has the problem, but it seems from in the browser (firefox & chrome in this case) it works fine.

Also here's one more little detail that seems to maybe pin down what's wrong with the native app at least. If you stream with "Also share application audio" it consumes memory at an insane rate, but if you turn that off it's just fine it appears. So it's something with the native app + audio being shared. Once you do make the mistake of doing that even when you stop the stream the java process still spirals out of control with consuming memory.

[loftar]

Interesting. Could perhaps just be that the "native" app uses an older bundled version of Chromium that had a bug or something, then, and that it will be fixed when they upgrade to a later version. Just speculating, of course.

[Ozzy123]

Interesting. Could perhaps just be that the "native" app uses an older bundled version of Chromium that had a bug or something, then, and that it will be fixed when they upgrade to a later version. Just speculating, of course.

Its been this way for years, I highly doubt that its the case here

[LemonNades]

I have had that issue too, but my budget solution is to just share your entire screen and there is no lag, hope that helps.

[derkami]

Just a question, since I couldn't replicate this myself yesterday.
What client's are you using for your tests?
Like yesterday I tested it with my own. I got no FPS drops. Could observe Memory peaking to 2GB, no crash however.
Interestingly enough while having VisualVM running, the graphs where clearly going up but as soon as I hit memory dump button, it shat itself and lost 50% memory (still running but stabilized).
It's like quantum physics... Once you want to observe it, your results change.

A very interesting technical topic indeed.

[thebacon]

Just a question, since I couldn't replicate this myself yesterday.
What client's are you using for your tests?
Like yesterday I tested it with my own. I got no FPS drops. Could observe Memory peaking to 2GB, no crash however.
Interestingly enough while having VisualVM running, the graphs where clearly going up but as soon as I hit memory dump button, it shat itself and lost 50% memory (still running but stabilized).
It's like quantum physics... Once you want to observe it, your results change.

A very interesting technical topic indeed.

To me be it a custom like ender or pure vanilla same thing happens.

[sMartins]

Always had the same problem, or at least from Hafen, default client.
Even capturing the full screen gave me problems after a while, lag, FPS drop and eventually crashing.

I remember it was the same with OBS as well.

[boshaw]

Just a question, since I couldn't replicate this myself yesterday.
What client's are you using for your tests?

I used default

[Pills]

Not just discord, adding the game to OBS as game capture cripples the games performance too

[thebacon]

Not just discord, adding the game to OBS as game capture cripples the games performance too

Any idea of something I could stream picking via its capture device that is not freezing the game?