Discord creating CS2 Jitters

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Coldplayer
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Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by Coldplayer » 10 Jul 2025, 13:37

Hi guys, so I've got an issue where in cs2 when I have discord open i'll get these console errors. At the same time my jitter will spike from 3ms to 30ms and i'll get a stutter in game.

SteamNetworkingSockets lock held for 10.6ms. (Performance warning.)
This is usually a symptom of a general performance problem such as thread starvation.

I've narrowed it down to discord when I play without it the game is 100% fine. Now I've turned off hardware accel in discord and don't have discord overlay running or anything like that but no dice. What I've found helps get rid of most of the errors but not all is if I change the priority of discord from high to below normal. For some reason discord keeps elevating itself to high priority by itself. Is there anyway I can stop this?

I'm using a 5800x3d/32gb ram so I'm more than capable of running it.

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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by inputlagfixerplz » 18 Jul 2025, 13:59

i have this issue too! without discord no lag gameplay, 5 guys in lobby playable, 10 guys 5vs5 jitter and input lag unplayable its driving me crazy. i tried discord with browser same issue

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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by dsavovic25 » 04 Aug 2025, 19:52

I just had the same issue, have no idea how to fix this.. I only get 50ms jitter spikes on download when looking at the network graph in CS2.. Random teleports occur while fighting etc.. Discord is such a bs app that I can't even understand why it even exists.. Have you found a fix by any chance?

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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by kriegsnake » 05 Aug 2025, 01:03

Try to disable overlay and krisp.
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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by dsavovic25 » 05 Aug 2025, 12:48

kriegsnake wrote:
05 Aug 2025, 01:03
Try to disable overlay and krisp.
Yes, I've tried disabling pretty much every single feature that discord has.. I've also tried Vencord which is like debloated discord with some extra features but same thing.. Very weird..

Coldplayer
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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by Coldplayer » 07 Aug 2025, 08:53

No fix yet, sometimes discord changes itself to high priority so i change all the processes down to low that helps a bit but not a full fix.

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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by dsavovic25 » 07 Aug 2025, 13:13

I think I fixed it by going back to old Realtek windows driver from 2015. I've disabled Interrupt Modulation, Flow Control and Priority & VLAN which were on by default, and for a half an hour of playing DM i haven't noticed any spikes while discord was connected to the voice chat.. Could be worth a shot if you have REALTEK nic..

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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by Chief Blur Buster » 07 Aug 2025, 14:26

Process Lasso FTW

With some fiddling around, it can make Discord behave; even prevent it from raising priority.

In addition, Process Lasso lets you isolate processes to specific CPU cores too (great for Threadrippers where half of the cores are high latency from the other half of the cores, or to force/to avoid using the efficiency cores for certain stuff). Can be helpful for speeding up AMD CPUs used in esports too.

The ProBalance mode in Process Lasso is another tool too.
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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by Coldplayer » 08 Aug 2025, 11:00

dsavovic25 wrote:
07 Aug 2025, 13:13
I think I fixed it by going back to old Realtek windows driver from 2015. I've disabled Interrupt Modulation, Flow Control and Priority & VLAN which were on by default, and for a half an hour of playing DM i haven't noticed any spikes while discord was connected to the voice chat.. Could be worth a shot if you have REALTEK nic..
Where did you get the realtek driver from? I just had stock windows high definition audio driver because the realtek ones i download from realtek/my motherboard are bloated with realtek crap.

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Re: Discord creating CS2 Jitters

Post by Kipperii » 08 Aug 2025, 13:34

Yes, using TeamSpeak for gaming has better hitreg than using Discord.

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