Discord client laggy for the past few updates

For the past couple of months, the Discord client (from the AUR package) has been behaving uncharacteristically poorly. Specifically, things like scrolling, typing, gifs rendering, all that nice stuff in the main window renders at very low framerates. I've tried a few things, and I'm hitting a brick wall.

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One thing I noticed is that it gets better when I make the client much smaller. This suggest to me its purely a rendering issue, but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. Notably, the web client has no issues.

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System specs:AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 16x 3.7GHz

16GB DDR4 RAM

512GB NVME M.2 SSD

AMD RX 480 (8GB)

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Software:

Awesome Window Manager

amdgpu as my gpu driver, /etc/X11/20-amdgpu.conf looks like:

Section "Device"

Identifier "AMD"

Driver "amdgpu"

EndSection

Kernel parameters:

quiet amd_iommu=on iommu=pt sysrq_always_enabled=1 default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8

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I run a Windows VM occasionally for gaming through libvirt and PCI passthrough for a second graphics card, though I think it's perhaps not relevant to this, as the VM is off most of the time including when this happens.

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This has happened between two separate Arch installs on this PC, not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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Any further information available on request. Any assistance in troubleshooting is greatly appreciated. If there's a better place to post this, I'm open to that as well. Just trying to get to the bottom of this.

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Edit: I tried a live CD of Manjaro with the same issue. (I'm running Arch on my system, but since it would be 'pre set up' as a live CD, I tested that) and it was still laggy.

Edit: I tried an Ubuntu live CD using the snap package and that didn't lag. Hmm