u/FacadeVA

Okay... I am coming on here as a last resort after many years of trying to solve this. And as some of you will check, I just made my Reddit account for this. As far as anything I've googled and searched for through support forums and other Reddit posts, do not fix my continuous circumstance.

This has been an issue since I first acquired my computer; my pc essentially breaks when I stream on Discord. I have tried many solutions for many problems that my computer may have. I have done the classic Discord settings of hardware acceleration all the way to thinking my power supply may be inadequate.

To be specific, my computer will be fine before streaming. It starts clipping when I press the stream button, and the prompt pops up to choose what to stream. If I get lucky, then it clips or crackles when I get far enough to press go live. After a couple of seconds, my audio cuts out, and it does not register my mouse or keyboard. If I am super unlucky, this disconnect lasts for at least a minute. Then the audio reconnects alongside the mouse and keyboard before repeating the cycle once more. (This does not happen when I actually stream on a social, only when I stream on Discord.)

I will put my specs here if they may be relevant. It is a Corsair prebuilt (Vengeance a2700) from the COVID era, which did have work done to it. Price was really good with what it had at the time, which now are:

Ryzen 9 5950X (Which had to be replaced from the original, I believe, to be 5900, which had broken due to some inherent fault which was brought up by a worker when I had it fixed).

32 GB

Force MP600 SSD

RTX 3080

Solutions I've tried over the years:

1. As previously stated, I have tried messing with Discord settings, and none of the surface-level problems have been fixed. I even tried PBT, and doing it through a browser.
2. Messed with sound settings for sample rates.
3. Updated many and all drivers that I could. For the GPU, Audio drivers, etc.
4. (Power supply) Thought it might've been an issue of too many things connected to my pc. I thought maybe my DAC, audio interface, two monitors, and whatever else connected were overloading my pc. But I disconnected them all, tried through my AirPods. And instead of my audio coming back, it would actually give me a blue screen of death. Saying DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION for those who may ask.

There probably have been more, but I do not remember the specifics.

Now, as a last resort, I've been assuming because it's a prebuilt and Corsair subjugates its motherboards to their own BIOS, and has not sent out any updates, that this is my final guess. But if it's not, then I really need help to fix this because I cannot find a solution to my problem. Please send anything that may be of help.

Edit additional context: When I figured out Bluetooth during this problem essentially blue screen instead. I tried using headphones through only my audio interface instead of DAC it would actually have clipping on its own, and give me the same experience without trying to stream on Discord. Which sometimes happened on my pc but wasn’t often even without the interface. It’s from experience that when there’s too much noise it clips and does the same thing of disconnecting everything. I think awhile ago it used to just be audio, just keyboard and mouse, or both. It had like a threshold at times. Where I could be in a vc and listen to music, but the second I enter a game too, it clips more often and disconnects. When I would try disconnecting the DAC cause that’s what I would use and reconnect it would work. But now it was also happening with the interface and Bluetooth so I feel like it doesn’t make it the inherent problem.

Okay... I am coming on here as a last resort after many years of trying to solve this. And as some of you will check, I just made my Reddit account for this. As far as anything I've googled and searched for through support forums and other Reddit posts, do not fix my continuous circumstance.

This has been an issue since I first acquired my computer; my pc essentially breaks when I stream on Discord. I have tried many solutions for many problems that my computer may have. I have done the classic Discord settings of hardware acceleration all the way to thinking my power supply may be inadequate.

To be specific, my computer will be fine before streaming. It starts clipping when I press the stream button, and the prompt pops up to choose what to stream. If I get lucky, then it clips or crackles when I get far enough to press go live. After a couple of seconds, my audio cuts out, and it does not register my mouse or keyboard. If I am super unlucky, this disconnect lasts for at least a minute. Then the audio reconnects alongside the mouse and keyboard before repeating the cycle once more. (This does not happen when I actually stream on a social, only when I stream on Discord.)

I will put my specs here if they may be relevant. It is a Corsair prebuilt (Vengeance a2700) from the COVID era, which did have work done to it. Price was really good with what it had at the time, which now are:

Ryzen 9 5950X (Which had to be replaced from the original, I believe, to be 5900, which had broken due to some inherent fault which was brought up by a worker when I had it fixed).

32 GB

Force MP600 SSD

RTX 3080

Solutions I've tried over the years:

1. As previously stated, I have tried messing with Discord settings, and none of the surface-level problems have been fixed. I even tried PBT, and doing it through a browser.
2. Messed with sound settings for sample rates.
3. Updated many and all drivers that I could. For the GPU, Audio drivers, etc.
4. (Power supply) Thought it might've been an issue of too many things connected to my pc. I thought maybe my DAC, audio interface, two monitors, and whatever else connected were overloading my pc. But I disconnected them all, tried through my AirPods. And instead of my audio coming back, it would actually give me a blue screen of death. Saying DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION for those who may ask.

There probably have been more, but I do not remember the specifics.

Now, as a last resort, I've been assuming because it's a prebuilt and Corsair subjugates its motherboards to their own BIOS, and has not sent out any updates, that this is my final guess. But if it's not, then I really need help to fix this because I cannot find a solution to my problem. Please send anything that may be of help.

Edit additional context: When I figured out Bluetooth during this problem essentially blue screen instead. I tried using headphones through only my audio interface instead of DAC it would actually have clipping on its own, and give me the same experience without trying to stream on Discord. Which sometimes happened on my pc but wasn’t often even without the interface. It’s from experience that when there’s too much noise it clips and does the same thing of disconnecting everything. I think awhile ago it used to just be audio, just keyboard and mouse, or both. It had like a threshold at times. Where I could be in a vc and listen to music, but the second I enter a game too, it clips more often and disconnects. When I would try disconnecting the DAC cause that’s what I would use and reconnect it would work. But now it was also happening with the interface and Bluetooth so I feel like it doesn’t make it the inherent problem.