insane vram usage

[Raysler]

I have 3070, r53600 and 32Gb ram but this game has a not normal vram usage. Atm my vram usage is 130% and frame is around 30fps. this is ridicolous.

[Silverhaze]

Publicado originalmente por derSanitoeter:

There is no such thing as ABOVE 100% vram usage.

In the graphics settings it shows how much it WOULD use and not how much it uses. My god. People should really have understood this years ago. This is nothing new in games.

Dude! There is a freaking memory leak in this game, how hard is that to understand? You start out with 55% vram on a fresh start on gow. After a while it starts to creep up and up and up. 70%, 90%, 120%, 150% etc...
And than the trouble starts until you reboot the game.

Because this game maximimise your vram. It wants to use more than the 100% vram you got so it bottlenecks. No, there is no such thing as above vram. Yes, it wants to use more than the 100% vram you got hence the stutters and lagging.

Memory leak.

[ Axecution ]

I can confirm with another voice, there is memory leak as well. I was live stream today, and got 130 fps for most ultra setting on my RTX 3060ti. after live stream went around 2 hour or more, I can feel the game went down terribly bad, to around 60-70 fps. I decided to quit the main menu (but accidentally press continue to the game again, lol) and my fps went up to 100+ once again.

so yeah, similar like Ghost of Tsushima when I playing for too long (I did live stream that game too) restart will only be an option to regain the fps back.

[Thoma]

Same here, RTX 2070 - at the beginning it's fine but the more you play the less FPS you get, restart is a workaround solution.

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post a screenshot liar

[SpectreWulf]

Publicado originalmente por Silverhaze:

Publicado originalmente por derSanitoeter:

There is no such thing as ABOVE 100% vram usage.

In the graphics settings it shows how much it WOULD use and not how much it uses. My god. People should really have understood this years ago. This is nothing new in games.

Dude! There is a freaking memory leak in this game, how hard is that to understand? You start out with 55% vram on a fresh start on gow. After a while it starts to creep up and up and up. 70%, 90%, 120%, 150% etc...
And than the trouble starts until you reboot the game.

Because this game maximimise your vram. It wants to use more than the 100% vram you got so it bottlenecks. No, there is no such thing as above vram. Yes, it wants to use more than the 100% vram you got hence the stutters and lagging.

Memory leak.

Yep and it's quite frustrating on the lower end of VRAM you have for your GPU

On my 3070 everything runs perfect @4K with DLSS Balanced @90-100+ FPS

Then as more texture is streamed it soon starts lagging and sound starts cracking and major button input delay

[stylar]

Lol noobs, WDDM 2.x includes more advanced memory management, so when VRAM runs out, RAM is used as video memory. This prevents the game from crashing, but performance drops significantly.

[Garghina]

I confirm on 3080 VRAM leak. Ultra Preset 1440p Even with DLSS quality after less than an hour you will saturate VRAM, (I saw it too. 130%) and there is a chance that the game will Crash or stutter. After many hours of gameplay I can say that the best way to play is HIGH preset, with DLAA. This problem is similar to what happened with The Last of US PART I first month.

Here is the list of vram consumption at various resolutions but are totally wrong or valid only for the first minutes of play (or only performed in the first area in the snow)
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/god-of-war-ragnarok-fps-performance-benchmark/5.html

[Websteroni]

Publicado originalmente por Thoma:

Same here, RTX 2070 - at the beginning it's fine but the more you play the less FPS you get, restart is a workaround solution.

Instead of restarting, I've found that I can just switch the graphics preset from high to medium then back to high and that works for some reason. At least in my case, that stopped it from crashing, increased my framerate back to normal, and decreased the VRAM usage in the bottom right corner. Hope that helps.

[Stévann]

Publicado originalmente por Garghina:

I confirm on 3080 VRAM leak. Ultra Preset 1440p Even with DLSS quality after less than an hour you will saturate VRAM, (I saw it too. 130%) and there is a chance that the game will Crash or stutter. After many hours of gameplay I can say that the best way to play is HIGH preset, with DLAA. This problem is similar to what happened with The Last of US PART I first month.

Here is the list of vram consumption at various resolutions but are totally wrong or valid only for the first minutes of play (or only performed in the first area in the snow)
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/god-of-war-ragnarok-fps-performance-benchmark/5.html

lol i start with 9gb Vram at 4k dlaa ultra like on the graph but 1 hours later 19gb Vram .....

[SpectreWulf]

Publicado originalmente por Garghina:

I confirm on 3080 VRAM leak. Ultra Preset 1440p Even with DLSS quality after less than an hour you will saturate VRAM, (I saw it too. 130%) and there is a chance that the game will Crash or stutter. After many hours of gameplay I can say that the best way to play is HIGH preset, with DLAA. This problem is similar to what happened with The Last of US PART I first month.

Here is the list of vram consumption at various resolutions but are totally wrong or valid only for the first minutes of play (or only performed in the first area in the snow)
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/god-of-war-ragnarok-fps-performance-benchmark/5.html

I was experimenting with all the Upscaler settings and looks like the implementation of DLSS is bugged, although I was getting smooth 100+ FPS @4k with it, it was causing rapid VRAM issue and soon caused lagging and sound issues.

If you just keep at Temporal Anti Aliasing and switch Quality / Balanced the VRAM issue is totally gone!

[BimboGooch]

vram 130% sounds like youre lying, because it literally doesnt go past 100% as it cannot use more than you have lol

[RodroG]

The VRAM utilization/usage indicator can show 100 or above percentage values. Of course, physically you cannot use more than your maximum available dedicated physical VRAM, but the Windows memory management system can use/share system RAM & virtual pagefile memory as dedicated VRAM if required for a current application, hence it is the 100 or higher % of VRAM usage you can eventually see displayed/recorded in some circumstances.

[Níðhöggr]

A game has 3 physical locations to store its data
VRAM
RAM
Pagefile (disk)

If VRAM indicates a usage above 100% it means RAM is used as extra space. If RAM is full, the system will use the pagefile as extra space. By default the pagefile is managed by windows and is located as a hidden system file in C:\pagefile.sys. If your disk is full, the system or the game will crash and alerts you with a system dialog message.

[Fallout]

The game at 4K on Ultra Settings consumes about 12 VRAM, at least for me with DLSS Quality/NVIDIA Frame Generation.
Starts at 9GB ish VRAM, and slowly increases till reach 11/12 GB VRAM usage and stops there.
Other games consumes +/- the same like ex. Horizon Forbidden West 10/11GB, Ratchet & Clank about 13GB with Raytracing, and have much other games that have huge VRAM usage.
Soo like I said it's not only on this game.

[Godbert Manderville]

Publicado originalmente por BimboGooch (GluckGluckMaster69):

vram 130% sounds like youre lying, because it literally doesnt go past 100% as it cannot use more than you have lol

See the previous comment by stylar.
When you run out of VRAM, it uses your main RAM as shared memory. See this screenshot for example: https://i.imgur.com/pINIFlT.jpeg

4GB of VRAM on the card plus 0.88GB of system RAM gives the 122% VRAM shown.