The game says I don't have enough VRAM even though i already completed the game several months ago

[Giann]

What sort of update makes it so people who could play the game, can't anymore ?!

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

It hasn’t even received an update in 6 months or so, I doubt that is what caused your issue. Try erasing the config file, verifying the files, etc.

[Vox Maximus]

Lower the settings. Game is very VRAM demanding. Long gone the days when 6-8GB VRAM were enough for anything.

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Lower the settings. Game is very VRAM demanding. Long gone the days when 6-8GB VRAM were enough for anything.

That’s not true, you can play part 1 at 1080p low settings with DLSS/FSR on a 4GB card. I posted a whole thread about it back in the summer because I got tired of people saying it wouldn’t work, because they were just guessing from how the game was at launch.

If someone is buying a new GPU, they should of course get as much VRAM as they can afford. This game was heavy on VRAM at launch, they fixed it. Lots of games will work with less than 8, you just have to tweak settings. Some games like Alan Wake 2 will slaughter a 4GB GPU and TLOU would also at launch but since version 1.0.5, the game will work (I tested it on a 3050ti 4GB). OP has some kind of glitch/bug happening most likely.

[Jarrod]

What is saying you don't have enough vram? Is the game unable to launch? Are you talking about the notoriously incorrect settings menu that shows "vram usage" which has never ever been correct in any game that has ever featured it?

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by jedimindtrickonyou:

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Lower the settings. Game is very VRAM demanding. Long gone the days when 6-8GB VRAM were enough for anything.

That’s not true, you can play part 1 at 1080p low settings with DLSS/FSR on a 4GB card. I posted a whole thread about it back in the summer because I got tired of people saying it wouldn’t work, because they were just guessing from how the game was at launch.

If someone is buying a new GPU, they should of course get as much VRAM as they can afford. This game was heavy on VRAM at launch, they fixed it. Lots of games will work with less than 8, you just have to tweak settings. Some games like Alan Wake 2 will slaughter a 4GB GPU and TLOU would also at launch but since version 1.0.5, the game will work (I tested it on a 3050ti 4GB). OP has some kind of glitch/bug happening most likely.

Low settings. As I told: lower the settings.

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by Jarrod:

What is saying you don't have enough vram? Is the game unable to launch? Are you talking about the notoriously incorrect settings menu that shows "vram usage" which has never ever been correct in any game that has ever featured it?

It's not incorrect.

[Jarrod]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Originally posted by Jarrod:

What is saying you don't have enough vram? Is the game unable to launch? Are you talking about the notoriously incorrect settings menu that shows "vram usage" which has never ever been correct in any game that has ever featured it?

It's not incorrect.

I... what?

[Wanda]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Originally posted by jedimindtrickonyou:

That’s not true, you can play part 1 at 1080p low settings with DLSS/FSR on a 4GB card. I posted a whole thread about it back in the summer because I got tired of people saying it wouldn’t work, because they were just guessing from how the game was at launch.

If someone is buying a new GPU, they should of course get as much VRAM as they can afford. This game was heavy on VRAM at launch, they fixed it. Lots of games will work with less than 8, you just have to tweak settings. Some games like Alan Wake 2 will slaughter a 4GB GPU and TLOU would also at launch but since version 1.0.5, the game will work (I tested it on a 3050ti 4GB). OP has some kind of glitch/bug happening most likely.

Low settings. As I told: lower the settings.

Wrong.

That because @Gian have only 16Go RAM i guess ( i know about de VRAM alert box, but's it's an error, you need more RAM not VRAM), so you just need to manage "page file" correctly in windows. By default, page file is not enough for TLOU.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10,36929.html

> (Give Minimum 14 Go / Maximum 15Go). It's very easy to do. You will have no more crash.

And if you want a much better framerate, you can use this "frame gen FSR3 mod" (very easy to instal too, and available in description). https://youtu.be/5PjvohPwmNM?si=NRvx_yrpItyiS7L6

(My Rig : RTX-3080 + AMD 3900X + 16 Go DDR4 (paging file trick) = I can play in 2560x1440p / ULTRA settings / Quality FSR / 110-140 FPS now (50-70 FPS before)

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by Wanda__:

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Low settings. As I told: lower the settings.

Wrong.

That because @Gian have only 16Go RAM i guess ( i know about de VRAM alert box, but's it's an error, you need more RAM not VRAM), so you just need to manage "page file" correctly in windows. By default, page file is not enough for TLOU.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10,36929.html

> (Give Minimum 14 Go / Maximum 15Go). It's very easy to do. You will have no more crash.

And if you want a much better framerate, you can use this "frame gen FSR3 mod" (very easy to instal too, and available in description). https://youtu.be/5PjvohPwmNM?si=NRvx_yrpItyiS7L6

(My Rig : RTX-3080 + AMD 3900X + 16 Go DDR4 (paging file trick) = I can play in 2560x1440p / ULTRA settings / Quality FSR / 110-140 FPS now (50-70 FPS before)

Problem is not RAM. It's VRAM.

[Jarrod]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Originally posted by Wanda__:

Wrong.

That because @Gian have only 16Go RAM i guess ( i know about de VRAM alert box, but's it's an error, you need more RAM not VRAM), so you just need to manage "page file" correctly in windows. By default, page file is not enough for TLOU.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10,36929.html

> (Give Minimum 14 Go / Maximum 15Go). It's very easy to do. You will have no more crash.

And if you want a much better framerate, you can use this "frame gen FSR3 mod" (very easy to instal too, and available in description). https://youtu.be/5PjvohPwmNM?si=NRvx_yrpItyiS7L6

(My Rig : RTX-3080 + AMD 3900X + 16 Go DDR4 (paging file trick) = I can play in 2560x1440p / ULTRA settings / Quality FSR / 110-140 FPS now (50-70 FPS before)

Problem is not RAM. It's VRAM.

And it's still not a problem. The in-game vram measure is inaccurate, just like it is in every game.

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by Jarrod:

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Problem is not RAM. It's VRAM.

And it's still not a problem. The in-game vram measure is inaccurate, just like it is in every game.

The ingame VRAM meter in settings is projected peak VRAM usage and it IS accurate enough. It has nothing to do with RAM. 16GB RAM is enough for this game. It's actually listed in the Recommended specs on the store page.

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Originally posted by Jarrod:

And it's still not a problem. The in-game vram measure is inaccurate, just like it is in every game.

The ingame VRAM meter in settings is projected peak VRAM usage and it IS accurate enough. It has nothing to do with RAM. 16GB RAM is enough for this game. It's actually listed in the Recommended specs on the store page.

I’ve seen this game use up 26GB of system RAM on a PC with a 12GB graphics card (so it wasn’t spillover from not enough vram) at 3840x1600 resolution. This is why so many people talk about the pagefile stuff, because really, they just need to buy more RAM. This game is prone to using a lot of it, The “recommended” is for 1080p and the proper system requirements look like this-

https://x.com/naughty_dog/status/1640368236406398977?s=61&t=-vAIWSDUiL8Ty9WP9idSWw

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by jedimindtrickonyou:

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

The ingame VRAM meter in settings is projected peak VRAM usage and it IS accurate enough. It has nothing to do with RAM. 16GB RAM is enough for this game. It's actually listed in the Recommended specs on the store page.

I’ve seen this game use up 26GB of system RAM on a PC with a 12GB graphics card (so it wasn’t spillover from not enough vram) at 3840x1600 resolution. This is why so many people talk about the pagefile stuff, because really, they just need to buy more RAM. This game is prone to using a lot of it, The “recommended” is for 1080p and the proper system requirements look like this-

https://x.com/naughty_dog/status/1640368236406398977?s=61&t=-vAIWSDUiL8Ty9WP9idSWw

Just because it can use that much doesn't mean it will. There are plenty of benchmarks on YouTube with 16GB showing identical performance to 32GB systems.

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Originally posted by jedimindtrickonyou:

I’ve seen this game use up 26GB of system RAM on a PC with a 12GB graphics card (so it wasn’t spillover from not enough vram) at 3840x1600 resolution. This is why so many people talk about the pagefile stuff, because really, they just need to buy more RAM. This game is prone to using a lot of it, The “recommended” is for 1080p and the proper system requirements look like this-

https://x.com/naughty_dog/status/1640368236406398977?s=61&t=-vAIWSDUiL8Ty9WP9idSWw

Just because it can use that much doesn't mean it will. There are plenty of benchmarks on YouTube with 16GB showing identical performance to 32GB systems.

It all depends on the resolution, graphics settings, system configuration, etc. and we have zero info about that from OP, so it’s all guesswork on our parts without him/her chiming in on the situation.

[Wanda]

Guys, since DAY-1, we know the last of us (and many other titles like Hogwarts legacy) can have RAM management issues, depending of updates. All the crash have been fixed with paging file trick. Playing with Ultra or LOW settings change nothing.