According to Dexerto, the upcoming feature was spotted by Discord Previews on X, which shared a screenshot of a new toggle currently being developed for the desktop app. Discord Previews tracks upcoming and experimental Discord features, and its post only says the company is “working on” the setting. Rather than sacrificing Discord’s full visual experience permanently, users could leave Game Mode switched on and have the client automatically scale itself back whenever it detects that they’re playing something.
Engadget also reports that the description shown for the Game Mode toggle states that it will "Reduce 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.
KitGuru adds that the aim is to leave more headroom for the game itself without requiring users to adjust Discord’s performance options each time. The addition follows a year of optimisation work on Discord’s desktop client. More recently, Discord updated its Windows client to Electron 42, reporting a roughly 17% drop in median CPU usage, alongside further rendering tweaks that shaved off an additional few percent.
Sources: Engadget KitGuru Dexerto
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