Discord's new Party Mode may take a slice of your CPU

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Discord is the current go-to chat app for many PC gamers, and plenty of other online hobbyists. For the uninitiated, Discord allows people to form individual servers with forum-like categories for text based chat, and includes voice chat functionality for group calls during games. 

People make Discord servers for all sorts of things, whether or not they really should. Ideally the app runs in the background, not taking up too many resources so your gaming can take hardware priority. Although, this isn't always the case.

To celebrate the app's seventh anniversary, Discord has released a new Party Mode functionality. This is just a bit of fun that adds visual and audio elements to the usual experience. Confetti and a combo counter appears when you type, along with screen shake and even a cheering crowd. It's a silly cute little celebration, but boy can it eat your CPU.

Thankfully Party Mode is off by default, but some users who have enabled it to take part in the celebrations are finding the party to be a bit of a processor hog. It tends to vary person to person, but some have reported having their CPU spike by 30% just from turning on the new mode. That's really the opposite of what you want this chat app to be doing.

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Personally, enabling Discord's Party Mode didn't cause any initial change to my CPU. However, when typing while the graphics appear it can jump up by about 20% or so and stays up there while I type. My GPU also sees a quick burst when typing commences but then immediately calms back down. Seems at least it