Discord: Change game display - how it works
If you don't want to show your friends at Discord that you are playing every game, you can simply change the game display. We'll show you how it's done.
Instructions: Change or hide the game display on Discord
In an older version of Discord you could change the display as you like. A change is now only possible to a limited extent.
- Start Discord and click the gear icon in the lower left corner. Then the settings open.
- Go to the "Game Activity" category on the left and you will find a list of installed games.
- To the right of each game, you can choose whether the game appears in your Discord status when it is being used.
- With the option "Show currently running game as status message", you can deactivate all games immediately.
- To trick the game display, click on the "Add it" option above.
- Select a program that often runs on your computer. In our example, Google Chrome is currently running, so we select it from the list.
- "Google Chrome" now always appears in our game display. You can also add any other name or saying for Google Chrome in the list of games.
- Note: You can select almost all running programs for this trick. Programs that are minimized in the taskbar do not work in most cases.
In the next practical tip we will show you how to correctly format text in Discord.