Memory leak

[Medusa]

Game starts out using only 50 % of available memory, then after a while it's 90 % and rising constantly, doesn't seem logical.

[Migz - DH]

system memory or vram?

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Originally posted by Medusa:

Game starts out using only 50 % of available memory, then after a while it's 90 % and rising constantly, doesn't seem logical.

What video card do you have and how much system ram is in your computer?

[Medusa]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Medusa:

Game starts out using only 50 % of available memory, then after a while it's 90 % and rising constantly, doesn't seem logical.

What video card do you have and how much system ram is in your computer?

I have an RTX 2080 Super am running low settings and i have 32 GB of system RAM.
It appears to be rising in the videomemory constantly.

[Migz - DH]

Some of the later maps use more vram than the early ones, because they seem to be larger and/or more complicated. That'll happen regardless of whether one plays from the beginning to that point or loads right in. Are you noticing something different than that?

[Medusa]

Originally posted by Migz - DH:

Some of the later maps use more vram than the early ones, because they seem to be larger and/or more complicated. That'll happen regardless of whether one plays from the beginning to that point or loads right in. Are you noticing something different than that?

Well upon reloading the same map memory usage was lower than before, so definitely the memory is not getting cleaned well enough when transitioning to new area's.
So this may not really be a memory leak, at least the memory management is not good.
You are not telling me you need more than 8 GB of videomemory for 1440p DLSS performance at low settings, that doesn't make sense...

[Migz - DH]

I played throughout using DLSS Performance, Ultra settings, at 3440x1440 and never hit my vram cap of 10GB, so I didn't look much beyond that.

What I did notice was that if I used Native in the first couple of maps, I could do it.... painfully. But, in the later maps, I would run out of VRAM immediately.

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Originally posted by Medusa:

Well upon reloading the same map memory usage was lower than before, so definitely the memory is not getting cleaned well enough when transitioning to new area's.
So this may not really be a memory leak, at least the memory management is not good.
You are not telling me you need more than 8 GB of videomemory for 1440p DLSS performance at low settings, that doesn't make sense...

Welcome to 2022 and playing games. 8GB vram is pathetic these days and I seriously regret buying a 3070 Ti with this low of VRAM. I definitely plan to buy a 20+ GB card next time. I see this game max out my card at 8GB VRAM too all the time and then it starts sucking up more system ram as I play the game. So this seems to be normal for this game. I wouldn't be too concerned unless you're actually running out of ram playing the game some how. Also close down a bunch of background processes in your computer maybe. Something else might be causing it to climb in ram usage.

[Medusa]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Medusa:

Well upon reloading the same map memory usage was lower than before, so definitely the memory is not getting cleaned well enough when transitioning to new area's.
So this may not really be a memory leak, at least the memory management is not good.
You are not telling me you need more than 8 GB of videomemory for 1440p DLSS performance at low settings, that doesn't make sense...

Welcome to 2022 and playing games. 8GB vram is pathetic these days and I seriously regret buying a 3070 Ti with this low of VRAM. I definitely plan to buy a 20+ GB card next time. I see this game max out my card at 8GB VRAM too all the time and then it starts sucking up more system ram as I play the game. So this seems to be normal for this game. I wouldn't be too concerned unless you're actually running out of ram playing the game some how. Also close down a bunch of background processes in your computer maybe. Something else might be causing it to climb in ram usage.

idk, i think it shouldn't be using this much, it's probably just another attempt at trying to get you to buy a bigger GPU, same with Witcher 3 Nextgen which basically only runs acceptable on RTX4000 series and i saw someone running it on a 4090 where it was using 17 GB of VRAM at the max settings, sorry but even with RT you are not telling me Witcher 3 nextgen needs 17 GB of VRAM.
I understand at some point you need to upgrade, but the kind of VRAM requirements you see in some games are just off the charts and make no sense.
Here in Portal RTX even low settings at basically 720p (DLSS performance) gets you over 8 GB.
From what i can tell this means the path tracing only would require like 6 GB of VRAM and i highly doubt that is a rational number.

[Migz - DH]

Ray tracing and path tracing are resource intensive. I can't say I'm surprised that a lot of VRAM is required.

I'm just bummed that the original 3080s came with only 10GB.

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Originally posted by Medusa:

idk, i think it shouldn't be using this much, it's probably just another attempt at trying to get you to buy a bigger GPU, same with Witcher 3 Nextgen which basically only runs acceptable on RTX4000 series and i saw someone running it on a 4090 where it was using 17 GB of VRAM at the max settings, sorry but even with RT you are not telling me Witcher 3 nextgen needs 17 GB of VRAM.
I understand at some point you need to upgrade, but the kind of VRAM requirements you see in some games are just off the charts and make no sense.
Here in Portal RTX even low settings at basically 720p (DLSS performance) gets you over 8 GB.
From what i can tell this means the path tracing only would require like 6 GB of VRAM and i highly doubt that is a rational number.

It's almost as if you're trying to say it's a bad thing that the developers are using higher quality textures. They did tell us in the preview that Portal RTX is using 4K textures for all objects now. That's going to lead to higher vram usage. But most people have bigger video cards now with high VRAM in 2022 so ... yeah. I upgraded from my 1080 Ti (12GB VRAM) -> 3070 Ti and in games where the VRAM isn't maxed out yeah the new video card is tons faster but I see lots of games (Portal RTX, ARK: Survival Evolved, No Man's Sky) where my GPU gets maxed out at 8GB/8GB VRAM and the FPS drops to like 60 FPS or so (from the normal 144 for my 1080p/144 monitor). It sucks and makes me wish I had bought a better GPU with more VRAM. Next time I will definitely do that even if it means spending $1500. Personally I think it sucks and it's stupid that GPU makers restrict the higher VRAM cards to the stupidly expensive ones. I wish they would give us mid-range cards with 16~20 GB VRAM.