Gaming FPS drops getting fixed by screen sharing on Discord, confused why?

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I'm asking on behalf of somebody else. Their gaming laptop seems to have pretty frequent FPS drops in various games, however the FPS seems to stabilize (e.g. dropping to 40, then stabilizing up to a good 100 or such in FPS games) whenever we do a screen share via Discord, showing their game on the screen? The part that confuses me here is that technically I'd presume that would use more resources and drop the FPS even more in a more logical sense. Hoping somebody is gonna have some kind of answer to this strange thing though. Thank you in advance! :)
 
Are they accidentally using the on-board graphics card, and then when screen sharing its kicking in the GPU?
 
Thank you :P checked into all of that and there wasn't any option between integrated graphics or anything in the part described in the guides in the Nvidia Control Panel so I'm guessing the choice of graphics (between integrated and GPU) is a bit of a bust as the solution xD the only thing I noticed from there was that the OpenGL was set to automatic (although it probably doesn't change anything when there's only one GPU) and, in an experimental sense, set the power mode in the Nvidia Control Panel to performance (instead of adaptive or power) to see if it has any kind of effect.
 
Further tested with the settings and it didn't really seem to take any effect towards fixing the problem via the Nvidia settings that were changed :/
 
What version of Windows is the laptop running - Win7, WIn10 etc?

I can't help with Win7 but Win10 has a simple "tool" built-in you can use to check which GPU is being used - Run the "Task Manager" (either right click on the bottom task bar and select "Task Manager" or type in into the search bar) - Then select the Performance Tab (you may need to click on the "more details" button at the bottom to see all the tabs - the last two icons on the left side are the 2 GPU's (called GPU0 and GPU1) and you can see which one is currently being used.

Only the Integrated GPU (GPU0 called Intel HD....... etc) should be showing any activity, as you are only using windows. Then start a game which gives a low FPS and use the Windws button on the keyboard (or ALT-TAB) to get back to the desktop and check out if the Nvidia card (GPU1) was being used at all during the game. If it wasn't then thats the problem.
 
Ah :) thank you for that. The laptop's running on Windows 10 so we'll take a look at that now :p and I'm guessing if there's only 1 GPU then there's potentially no integrated graphics or they're otherwise somehow disabled entirely :p but I'll mention back on that.
 
The laptop is running on Windows 10. I'll definitely check that out when possible about the GPU in task manager though and I'll mention how it goes :)
 
Just figured out that hardware acceleration was on, so we just turned that off in Discord. Not sure if it'll have an effect or not though :p but hopefully, and also figured, for the integrated GPU thing, that there's only 1 GPU which is the actual Nvidia graphics card coming under GPU0 so there probably won't be any issues relating to that side of things like integrated graphics and all.
 
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its not something to do with a win10 update - one of them seems to enable some windows game bar which could impact on some games?

Something like settings -> gaming and turn the game bar off
 
Hmm :P it would be a surprising thing if it turned out to be the game bar stuff, since it seems to cancel out when Discord screen share is running. However, I do appreciate the suggestion and I'll definitely forward it along to give a try :p
 
try resetting 3D settings in Nvidia control panel to default. I have to do it from time to time when 7 Days to Die decides to lock itself at 24fps. After resetting to default and changing settings back to what I had before the game runs fine for ages then all of a sudden it does it again.
 
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