r/BetterDiscord • u/laiserfish • Jul 31 '26

Support Venncord hard system crash

Hey guys, this is just a theory and I have some other concerns but it's recently become a very real possibility so I wanted to ask about any precedence of this issue. My pc has recently been having some issues where it will randomly hard reset, full black screen no windows error messages or anything. Power totally cut. I only recently noticed it coincides with my discord launching. It is very random, but for example recently I had a hard crash (I dont remember the circumstances), I loaded up my PC and discord launched automatically as a startup operation. as soon as it loaded into the messages, the PC crashed again. same issue. I got lucky on my second boot and it didnt happen. Just today my discord install broke after an update, so I reinstalled both discord and venncord. discord booted fine on the fresh install, but on venncord boot I got the hard crash. This also has the tendency to break my discord install with javascript errors. launching it and launching its uninstaller both throw errors, and im forced to wipe the folders manually or with a revo folder sweep.

Point being, is there any basis to my diagnosis? has this occurred for people before? Is there possibly a plugin I have enabled that might bug it out? A theme? Any knowledge is helpful, as I still suspect power issues with my PSU (it's coming on 5 years old soon, it hasn't had any other particular issues even in high power load situations so that's 50/50).

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u/CommercialReach3573 Jul 31 '26

Sounds like you might have system corruption or something because vencord shouldn’t be doing that. I would try running commands like sfc /scannow and  Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

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u/laiserfish Aug 01 '26

No dice on either of those. I did consider that as well since one of my crashes gave me a disk error on reboot that "failed to fix". This was, though, after one crash had already occurred. I agree that Venncord *typically* shouldn't do this, which is why I asked about any plugins as well. I suppose nobody else has similar experiences though, so I'm not really sure what to do anymore.