High VRAM usage after 2.1 update rtx 4070

[darkosis]

Has anyone been noticing high VRAM usage with RT? I had been using some customized video settings for my particular with DLSS on auto and RT for reflections/shadow and at best I would get 8-9GB VRAM usage, but now after the update it constantly stays up at 10-11GB.
There are also constant FPS drops, anyone else?

I have updated nvidia drivers too.

[Danopsi]

yes. on 2080Ti 1440p with upscaling at balanced or performance.
used to get 7-8GB vram usage in 2.0 and now its reaching 11gb which is my maximum vram

[envirovore]

Is that allocated or dedicated VRAM?
Allocated is the total VRAM pool set aside to use *if needed* and not the actual amount of VRAM actually in use.
Dedicated is actual amount of VRAM in use.

Afterburner by default only shows allocated VRAM, so you're getting an inaccurate figure from there unless you enable the 'show video memory by process' option - which will give you your dedicated (actual) VRAM usage.

With my 3080 in PT mode I've had a few instances of having the full 10GB buffer allocated, but have never yet exceeded more than 9.3GB of dedicated (actual usage) at once.

Edit: as an example:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3098674648

In that screenshot if you look at stats. A VRAM (allocated) is ~9.4 GB, that's total buffer reserved for game usage if it needs it.
What's actually being used (D VRAM) in that screenshot is ~8.6GB of VRAM though.

Your system will always reserve more VRAM than it actually needs in order to allow a buffer to prevent swapping to DRAM or disk.

Really though, as long as your dedicated usage is below your total VRAM buffer it doesn't matter how much VRAM the game chooses to allocate. It's what VRAM is there for, to be used.

[nusho]

I'm using Special K to monitor VRAM usage, which displays in real-time ACTUAL in-use VRAM, and after 2.0 (but got worse in 2.1) Cyberpunk has a bug where if you enter into and exit out of menus, the map, your inventory, etc. the longer you spend in those menus, the more your VRAM usage will increase, to the point that there's literally none left and your FPS will begin to tank because of it.

I went into my inventory for about 5 minutes while I messed around in the wardrobe, and came back out to find that I was then running at half the FPS I was before I went in, and that the game was using 11.8GB of VRAM (up from the 8.4GB it started at).

This is a commonly known issue with this update now. This game is in SERIOUS need of a patch for this VRAM leak.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/16twueh/no_youre_not_alone_cp2077_20_introduced_wild/

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/fps-drop-after-opening-closing-a-menu-or-talking-to-a-npc.11120296/

[darkosis]

Originally posted by nusho:

I'm using Special K to monitor VRAM usage, which displays in real-time ACTUAL in-use VRAM, and after 2.0 (but got worse in 2.1) Cyberpunk has a bug where if you enter into and exit out of menus, the map, your inventory, etc. the longer you spend in those menus, the more your VRAM usage will increase, to the point that there's literally none left and your FPS will begin to tank because of it.

I went into my inventory for about 5 minutes while I messed around in the wardrobe, and came back out to find that I was then running at half the FPS I was before I went in, and that the game was using 11.8GB of VRAM (up from the 8.4GB it started at).

This is a commonly known issue with this update now. This game is in SERIOUS need of a patch for this VRAM leak.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/16twueh/no_youre_not_alone_cp2077_20_introduced_wild/

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/fps-drop-after-opening-closing-a-menu-or-talking-to-a-npc.11120296/

and it is also the main cause of crashes. If you go in there to save or change a setting, there is bound to be a crash one of the times.