Is your Discord stream lagging and stuttering?

Is it streaming in poor quality?

The reason for that could be that other processes are overloading your system.

Man in black using smartphone while on Discord

This article will explain how to make the Discord streams run smoothly and clearly.

It’s super easy to check that.

Does your game lag or stutter even when you aren’t streaming it?

Run Discord as an Administrator Using Windows Search

However, if the game runs smoothly alone but lags while streaming, Discord is probably the culprit.

Therefore, you should begin applying the remaining fixes.

To do this, simply disable hardware acceleration in Discord.

Go to Settings in Discord

The hardware acceleration feature helps graphics-intensive applications to offload their processing needs to the GPU.

Change the Screen Sharing options

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Therefore, if no fix has helped improve your Discord stream quality, you should clear its cache.

Disable Certain Options in Voice and Video Settings in Discord

Also, do a quick double-check that you don’t have any RAM-devouring apps open.

If stream quality improves after this change, your internet is to blame.

So, either keep using the new internet connection or fix the existing issues to stabilize the internet.

Disable the Hardware Acceleration in Discord Settings

To fix app-specific problems, uninstall Discord and reinstall it.

If you aren’t familiar with the process, check out our guide onhow to uninstall Windows apps.

After uninstalling it, go to the Discord website and clickDownload for Windows.

Select Smoother Video in Screen Sharing Settings in Discord

Once the download process completes, load the app as you did the first time.

Hopefully, the above fixes will help improve the stream quality and make the experience more enjoyable.

If nothing seems to work, try reinstalling the app.

Open the AppData Folder in Windows File Explorer

Delete All Files in the Discord Cache Folder in Windows File Explorer