How much VRAM is your system using?

[MeGa]

thats a new one for me and im curious about it. It says im using, my "OS + apps" 1.6gb vram, which is a big chunk of my 8 vram.

also its not the first game to have a vram bar or number and I never seen it like this, sometimes maybe I seen a game say "7.8vram available" instead of 8. but 1.6vram, if true, makes me wanna troubleshoot it, as im not running video apps or anything else besides the game.

[Just Chill]

4853 MB OS & Apps, 9957 MB the game.

Originally posted by Phobos:

Of course; the best thing to do.

Yeah that number seems to be pretty inaccurate. ^^

It doesn't even increase when I record with ShadowPlay, while it's hardware accelerated.

[The doctor is in]

on amd 5700x using 10gb out of 12 gb 1080p high profile

[StuartAce]

Its best to use Rivatuner as it shows only what the game is actually using.
For me, on a 11gb 1080ti, the game uses around 7gb vram at 1080p High settings, including High textures.

[MeGa]

Originally posted by Corveck:

Game says 1606, but Windows Taskmanager says 0,3/8,0 GB?!?

Thats the thing. Checked with process explorer as well. Os + apps (steam mostly) is 400mb, or 1.6gb according to the games meter. Thats the issue.

Other games also say how much free vram you have, and none says you have so much vram used by os and apps.

Effectively its making less use of your available ram.

Also seems to scale. The guy with 4090 is really using 5gb vram for os and apps? Hmmmm xd

[PunisheR]

14gb

[琴操]

4gb vram, 8gb ram

[mw00]

PS5 uses RAM as VRAM. Whoever ported this game to PC probably didn't consider this.

[gaav]

6700xt 1080p ultra 10.5gb 1440p 11.9gb 6800xt 1440p 12.5gb

[Joaquim]

I don't get that either, berfore opening the game my OS and other apps use only 285 MB of VRAM, then I open the game and it says 1606MB ?!?! Really don't get it, for me it sounds like the game itself is taking that much of vram for something.

[MeGa]

Originally posted by J. Rose:

I don't get that either, berfore opening the game my OS and other apps use only 285 MB of VRAM, then I open the game and it says 1606MB ?!?! Really don't get it, for me it sounds like the game itself is taking that much of vram for something.

But you are like one of the 25% of people that is getting it. Rest talk about total vram usage, or say silly stuff like its normal blabla.

No, the issue as you perfectly understood, is that one.

No game eats 1.6gb vram in the menu. And many other games do also measure free and used vram. Its always 90% or more free.

Here, tlou, with an already high vram usage, is ripping me off / stealing some of my vram. Not literally but maybe this way people understands it.

I dont have 6.4gb of free vram to devote to the game, no. I have 8 total, 400 used and 7.6 free.

Buuut the game says nah, you spent 1.6gb on os and apps, and just left me 6gb! And ofc the bar ends up in yellow with a 130% of vram usage and exclamation marks.

[twiggy]

Originally posted by Dark Thoughts:

If you're referring to the thingy in the display settings, it's just an estimation and not your real vram usage. Based on Mangohud I'm at 7.4 of 8 GB usage just being in the menu, while the options screen says I'd be at 6.3G B. I'm not sure if the shader building process actually takes up any of that though.

Edit: Okay. Down to 5.7 GB in the menu now.

it is real, if you run out of vram then your game will use system memory which causes performance loss

[Dark Thoughts]

Originally posted by twiggy:

Originally posted by Dark Thoughts:

If you're referring to the thingy in the display settings, it's just an estimation and not your real vram usage. Based on Mangohud I'm at 7.4 of 8 GB usage just being in the menu, while the options screen says I'd be at 6.3G B. I'm not sure if the shader building process actually takes up any of that though.

Edit: Okay. Down to 5.7 GB in the menu now.

it is real, if you run out of vram then your game will use system memory which causes performance loss

It's not. I have a literal readout of my vram usage through Mangohud.

[Mexicola9302]

According to the game it's 2013 MB, but in reality it's a bit less, something like 1,7 or 1,8 GB or something.

[Joaquim]

Originally posted by MeGa:

Originally posted by J. Rose:

I don't get that either, berfore opening the game my OS and other apps use only 285 MB of VRAM, then I open the game and it says 1606MB ?!?! Really don't get it, for me it sounds like the game itself is taking that much of vram for something.

But you are like one of the 25% of people that is getting it. Rest talk about total vram usage, or say silly stuff like its normal blabla.

No, the issue as you perfectly understood, is that one.

No game eats 1.6gb vram in the menu. And many other games do also measure free and used vram. Its always 90% or more free.

Here, tlou, with an already high vram usage, is ripping me off / stealing some of my vram. Not literally but maybe this way people understands it.

I dont have 6.4gb of free vram to devote to the game, no. I have 8 total, 400 used and 7.6 free.

Buuut the game says nah, you spent 1.6gb on os and apps, and just left me 6gb! And ofc the bar ends up in yellow with a 130% of vram usage and exclamation marks.

That's it, just don't think that's right, since when running other games it doesn't happen. And what's more curious is that if you open the own game metrics, it'll show like it's using about 6,6gb of vram, but when using other that isn't the case. :')

[azogthedefiler25]

Originally posted by upuaut2:

Originally posted by azogthedefiler25:

It's using 99% of my rtx 3080 12 of vram. At 1440p. I haven't actually played the game yet since I'm still waiting on shaders.

yes this is odd. i have the same system and it says i don't have enough. i ended up putting settings back to default

I just saw your reply. I saw on another topic that you refunded the game. I'm curious, how much system memory do you have?