Discord was born as an application so that users of multiplayer video games could communicate with each other, when practically no games included voice chat and those that did offered very low quality and with many connection interruptions. Nowadays, most video games include support for voice chat, however, this has not been an obstacle for Discord to remain one of the most used applications.
Many gamers use Discord to bring together all the contacts they usually play with in one place and, thus, know in what capacity they play, ask them if they are going to play, as well as bring a group together in the same room. friends even if everyone plays a different video game.
The number of options that Discord offers is very high, so the number of possibilities that it stops working, closes, does not open or restarts continuously is very high since, in addition, it has to face equipment completely different from the others.
If you’re having issues with Discord, especially if you can’t get the app to stay open long enough to investigate the reason, below we show you different options to fix this horrible problem and get back to using it again. application as on the first day.
Discord issues
The number of problems that can affect the operation of Discord is very wide and varied and generally, most of the problems it presents have a very simple solution, following the steps that we show you below.
Start Windows in Safe Mode
When we start Windows in Safe mode, Windows only loads the drivers necessary to be able to use the different components of our PC. This makes it easy for us to know if the issue affecting our team with Discord is a driver issue or if the problem is in the app or Windows.
If we can start Discord without any problem, this means that the problem is with the drivers used by the application, in particular the drivers that manage the sound card and the webcam, devices that Discord uses to function. In this case, the best we can do is update drivers
Disable hardware acceleration
Hardware acceleration does not work well with all computers, being one of the main problems that affect the operation of applications that include this function. If we can’t keep the app open long enough to disable this feature, we can try start Windows in safe mode.
This option is found in Discord’s advanced options, and can be accessed from the gear icon. Once we have disabled hardware acceleration, it is advisable to restart the PC and test again if the problem has been resolved.
Install pending Windows updates
Like many other apps, the first thing Discord does as soon as you launch it is check if a new version has been released to install before allowing the user to use the app. Due to how it works, we do not have the possibility to check if there is a new update since this one is responsible for carrying out the process.
What we should do is check if Windows has any updates waiting to be installed. Windows updates not only provide security improvements to your computer and add new features, but they troubleshoot operating problems or incompatibility that the Microsoft operating system may have with third-party applications, and therefore it is always advisable to install them as and when they become available.
Use the web version as a last resort
If our friends can’t wait for us to fix the problem by restarting the computer, we can use the web version of Discord. The web version of Discord offers us the functions of the desktop application but with the advantage of not having to install any applications, so unless we are using a very old browser we will not have any problems using it. to use.
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