"Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running."

[Tribemember 123]

Since I updated my drivers I have had this message which leads to my game inevitably crashing in high FPS locations. I have a 4070Ti, 64GB RAM, Intel i9 13900KF. One of my friends told me to download and run CCleaner to clear out my Disk Space- I did this but the same issue persists. Any ideas on the reason for this new issue?

[Derivat949]

The game says you're running out of VRAM, that's the issue. Your 4070 Ti has 12 GB of VRAM, the game takes up 12 GB of VRAM just loading into my save on my 7900 XT. You need to lower settings/resolution or enable DLSS until you're using less than 12 GB.

[Schildkroeti]

Originally posted by Derivat949:

The game says you're running out of VRAM, that's the issue. Your 4070 Ti has 12 GB of VRAM, the game takes up 12 GB of VRAM just loading into my save on my 7900 XT. You need to lower settings/resolution or enable DLSS until you're using less than 12 GB.

BS. VRAM usage on AMD cards is always higher than Nvidia. I don't know the exact reason, but I read it quite often. If that would be the problem, my 3070 with 8GB wouldn't be able to start the game lol.
And he also said after the new driver version.

I guess you need to roll back. I also got the latest version yesterday and my FPS went down from 40-70 to 40-50 FPS with heavy frametime lag.

[Derivat949]

Originally posted by Schildkröti:

Originally posted by Derivat949:

The game says you're running out of VRAM, that's the issue. Your 4070 Ti has 12 GB of VRAM, the game takes up 12 GB of VRAM just loading into my save on my 7900 XT. You need to lower settings/resolution or enable DLSS until you're using less than 12 GB.

BS. VRAM usage on AMD cards is always higher than Nvidia. I don't know the exact reason, but I read it quite often. If that would be the problem, my 3070 with 8GB wouldn't be able to start the game lol.
And he also said after the new driver version.

I guess you need to roll back. I also got the latest version yesterday and my FPS went down from 40-70 to 40-50 FPS with heavy frametime lag.

AMD allocates and maybe uses more VRAM, yes.
But settings and resolution play a massive role in VRAM usage (obviously), I'm sure you're not playing on all epic settings @ native 1440p while he very well might be. Frame generation also takes up VRAM if he uses that (maybe would fit together with him saying it happens in "high fps locations")

[Karnage]

Originally posted by SpankinGoose:

Since I updated my drivers I have had this message which leads to my game inevitably crashing in high FPS locations. I have a 4070Ti, 64GB RAM, Intel i9 13900KF. One of my friends told me to download and run CCleaner to clear out my Disk Space- I did this but the same issue persists. Any ideas on the reason for this new issue?

I9 13900K series seems to have an issue with the P-Core at 55x or higher. Download Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and set the P-Cores to 53x or 54x. I did for my 13900K and it stopped all my out of memory crashes.

[Schildkroeti]

Originally posted by Derivat949:

AMD allocates and maybe uses more VRAM, yes.
But settings and resolution play a massive role in VRAM usage (obviously), I'm sure you're not playing on all epic settings @ native 1440p while he very well might be. Frame generation also takes up VRAM if he uses that (maybe would fit together with him saying it happens in "high fps locations")

Its not a direct VRAM problem as I said. Doesn't make any sense, because he updated drivers and than the problem occured. That means he could play before without a problem.
The part with FG could be a thing. Most likely broken with the newest driver. Or something else is broken with the newest driver, because I lost around 10 FPS.

EDIT: Even a 4070 is able to run the game 4K Epic settings with FG. Regarding FPS it doesn't look that great but it works.

[Iron Chief]

I FOUND THE ISSUE. For me whenever the game goes well over about 8500 MB of RAM use for example on map start, it will crash. (I have 64GB total system memory btw)

So every time I saw 10500MB or 9500MB ram use for ark alone in task manager, I would get a crash. Whenever the game started and stayed at or below roughly 8500MB, it was fine.

I added a few game launch option parameters in steam. But the game doesn't always follow them. They are more like guidelines on game start. But it made my game with 30+ mods go from always crashing to now surviving about 6 or 7 out 10 map starts.

I also have the game running for over an hour now with a crash yet to happen. Fingers crossed.

Here is what I used for the start parameters.

-high -maxMem=7999 -malloc=system

That game start setting above made the biggest difference.

But I did not stop there.

I have a 6 core 12 thread CPU (Ryzen 5600x)
so I also added this launch parameter which you can adapt to your CPU, just change the core/thread number to match what you want.

-force-feature-level-1 1-0 -cpuCount=6-exThreads=12

And if you don't mind running the game in DX11
You can also try

-force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -+fps_max 0 -high -nojoy -dxlevel 95

however that made the smallest difference to me>

Once in game I turn volumetric fog and volumetric clouds off by bringing up the console with ~ tilde key that is under the ESC button.

Then I type in:

r.VolumetricCloud 0
and press enter

and then

r.VolumetricFog 0
and press enter

you can go back by changing the 0 to a 1

I hope this helps, good luck everyone. I hope ark DEVs see my post about the RAM issue.

[Schildkroeti]

when people start reading OP's posts