100% Ram usage, memory leak?

[Kapten]

I'm noticing performance drops related to my RAM being used at 100% in any given situation during gameplay..

My GPU and CPU are at anticipated levels, not 100% but around 70-80% on both.
Is there any info or fixes to this massive ram usage? Gameplay feels sluggish. Otherwise the my rig handles it well with Nvidias own optimization, and yes i've tweaked the settings in all possible ways to make it run better.

TL;DR

Why Ram at 100%? Someone suggested that system pagefile might be the culprit.

Specs:
Ryzen 7 5800x
3070 8GB
32GB DDR 4 ram at 3000mhz.

[Tom Horn]

Is this normal?

Been having some crashes lately.....monitor goes black, PC stays on but that's it, have to power off then back on......noticed tonight that the system RAM utilisation was 31GB of 32GB total. Memory useage was at 99% in task manager with a huge amount allocated to the game.

Is this normal? Could it be causing the instability??

Cheers

[Badakhlagh]

I am having same issue with event Cache Hierarchy Error, I have 16gig though. Just update GPU driver too

[Badakhlagh]

CPU is 99% on deployment!!!

[Tr3m0r]

There is no reason ram should be consuming 31 of 32gb which is why utilization is at 99%. You aren't doing some super intensive work in the back? I'm sure you aren't but that's all I can think as it would be like running a few games simultaneously or doing some rendering in the background. Sadly I'm out of my depth here.

[Tom Horn]

Thanks fellas.....I think I'm out of my depth also! No.....nothing, apart from the usual Windows stuff, going on in the background. I'm pretty sure (unless someone with more experience comes along and informs otherwise) that this is the likely cause of my crashing.

On the one hand, the AMD Adrenalin reporting more than 31 GB system memory being utilised and task manager memory tab showing 99% could be construed as everything flying along at full steam ahead without bottlenecks.

My feeling is it's pushing things right to the very limit....and when it goes over I get the crash, no warnings, no throttling.....just unresponsive black screen.

Very close to pressing the order button on a further 32 GB of ram!

[Warmech]

Can you post some numerical values of how much RAM is being used just by GZW when you say the whole system is at 99%? What percentage of memory is used when you restart your computer and then only open up Steam?

Can you check if you have the pagefile in Windows enabled and set to system managed on a drive with ample space (50-100G)? Try option 2 here on your main drive, or maybe switch to a different drive with more space and test https://www.elevenforum.com/t/manage-virtual-memory-paging-file-in-windows-11.8618/

Are you running any game streaming/recording software in the background? Keep in mind almost everything from nvidia/amd driver software, to Steam, to xbox game bar, to software for your keyboard/mouse/headset may have some sort of clip capturing feature that can run and needs to be forced off.

Just as a reference with 32G I'm sitting at 18% at default in Windows with just Steam running. When GZW first loads into a server from a fresh restart it uses 9.7G for me. After flying/walking around most of MS/FN/TB in one session, GZW will hit ~19.5G which puts me at about 80% total memory usage and will start reducing from that as I fly back to base. I can't test going around to every area right now, but it's definitely not to the point where it's ballooning non-stop until crashing for me.

[Tom Horn]

As usual, many thanks Warmech. I'm sitting at 20% (6.5/31.2GB) default in Windows with just Steam running.

AMD Adrenalin was reporting 31GB+ of memory utilised while running GZW.......task manager reported 99% memory utilisation with a high proportion of that attributable to GZW (can't remember exact figure).

Nothing of real significance running in background, recording, streaming etc. Just discord and a few regular Windows stuff.

Pagefile is set to 1.5x memory (initial) and 3x memory (max) on a M.2 with 269GB free space (same drive as game and Windows). I have a further M.2 with 1.81TB of free space.....any value in nominating that for the pagefile?

I'll jot down some exact figures later. Just pressed that button on a further 32GB ram.

Regards

[bitstab]

I have the similar problem, simlar setup - not unplayable but with unexpexted heavy frame-drops.
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32 DDR5 GB Ram 2400 MHz
Radeon RX 7900XT

System ist running normally with many ♥♥♥♥ open (ca. 20 Firefox Tabs, some smaller apps like bitwarden or signal, Steam, Epic, Discord, iCue in the background) on around 13 GB RAM.

As soon as i start GZW, RAM begins to fill up and keeps continuesly using 10+ GB Ram. On the frame-drops which happen occassionly without clear structure, GZW is on a memory usage of over 15GB Ram and is using heavy the M.2 SSD.

[It's a Mind Game]

Page file is used when you no longer have free system RAM, but an application needs it. Then your system will use your HDD/SDD as a last resort, so that application runs, even if slowly. It shouldn't cause high RAM usage.

When you no longer have free VRAM, then your GPU will start using system RAM as a last resort (or some games will load low resolution textures). While OP has only 8GB, RX 7900XT has 20GB, so I doubt that you are running out of that.

I wasn't monitoring my RAM usage, because I didn't run into any performance issues, but I'll check it next time I'm in the game.

[Warmech]

Originally posted by Tom Horn:

As usual, many thanks Warmech. I'm sitting at 20% (6.5/31.2GB) default in Windows with just Steam running.

AMD Adrenalin was reporting 31GB+ of memory utilised while running GZW.......task manager reported 99% memory utilisation with a high proportion of that attributable to GZW (can't remember exact figure).

Nothing of real significance running in background, recording, streaming etc. Just discord and a few regular Windows stuff.

Pagefile is set to 1.5x memory (initial) and 3x memory (max) on a M.2 with 269GB free space (same drive as game and Windows). I have a further M.2 with 1.81TB of free space.....any value in nominating that for the pagefile?

I'll jot down some exact figures later. Just pressed that button on a further 32GB ram.

Regards

I'm not sure where Adrenalin is pulling that info from, and I don't have an AMD GPU to test with. Is there a specific area or situation where you're going up to 99% usage and it's giving you issues?

I tested with a VM taking up 4GB RAM, ~8GB of Firefox tabs in the background, texture resolution set to Epic with RT effects and FG on, and played around FN a bit. Behavior for me was as expected, GZW shed memory load when needed (down to like 7GB) and stuff was getting offloaded to the pagefile and no crashing. Honestly having your screen go black makes me more skeptical of AMD drivers than anything, I always had issues with them.

You can always check with the Discord tech support channels as well, they can be more thorough for looking into issues https://discord.com/invite/grayzonewarfare

[Warmech]

Originally posted by bitstab:

I have the similar problem, simlar setup - not unplayable but with unexpexted heavy frame-drops.
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32 DDR5 GB Ram 2400 MHz
Radeon RX 7900XT

System ist running normally with many ♥♥♥♥ open (ca. 20 Firefox Tabs, some smaller apps like bitwarden or signal, Steam, Epic, Discord, iCue in the background) on around 13 GB RAM.

As soon as i start GZW, RAM begins to fill up and keeps continuesly using 10+ GB Ram. On the frame-drops which happen occassionly without clear structure, GZW is on a memory usage of over 15GB Ram and is using heavy the M.2 SSD.

Are you having crashing, or just frame drops?

[bitstab]

Originally posted by Warmech:

Originally posted by bitstab:

I have the similar problem, simlar setup - not unplayable but with unexpexted heavy frame-drops.
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32 DDR5 GB Ram 2400 MHz
Radeon RX 7900XT

System ist running normally with many ♥♥♥♥ open (ca. 20 Firefox Tabs, some smaller apps like bitwarden or signal, Steam, Epic, Discord, iCue in the background) on around 13 GB RAM.

As soon as i start GZW, RAM begins to fill up and keeps continuesly using 10+ GB Ram. On the frame-drops which happen occassionly without clear structure, GZW is on a memory usage of over 15GB Ram and is using heavy the M.2 SSD.

Are you having crashing, or just frame drops?

I'm having only frame drops with stuttering. In my sessions today i tried to focus more on the performance problem. It seems to happen espescially if you play more then one whole day-night cycle. First and second day work like a charm, but on the morning of third day, and change of location (f.e. beeing the night on FN and then going to MS, TB or BL the ram gets boosted up to 95-99%, already on the chopper flight. Near to LZ (1 min marker) it starts to load shaders and the stuttering and frame-dropping begins. from normally around 100-140 frames it drops to 45-60. After around 30-40 secs in the LZ the game seems to recover itself, but the high RAM usage remains.

[Warmech]

Originally posted by bitstab:

Originally posted by Warmech:

Are you having crashing, or just frame drops?

I'm having only frame drops with stuttering. In my sessions today i tried to focus more on the performance problem. It seems to happen espescially if you play more then one whole day-night cycle. First and second day work like a charm, but on the morning of third day, and change of location (f.e. beeing the night on FN and then going to MS, TB or BL the ram gets boosted up to 95-99%, already on the chopper flight. Near to LZ (1 min marker) it starts to load shaders and the stuttering and frame-dropping begins. from normally around 100-140 frames it drops to 45-60. After around 30-40 secs in the LZ the game seems to recover itself, but the high RAM usage remains.

I'd say open up and ticket and report it to the devs. I'm not really able to test going out for that long in a single session, but it's possible extended deployments might be something they need to look into for optimizing. https://support.madfingergames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[ZirQueefwa]

Any update on this? having the exact same issue.

[Tom Horn]

Crashed again tonight (2nd time playing after above post) and Windows Task Manager is reporting GZW is using 22GB of ram. Left that and sitting in base watched my AMD driver report 'System Memory Utilisation' (I imagine this is total use, system wide) climb constantly till I safely ended deployment when it hit 32GB ram :(