new GPU and a memory leak in steamVR

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Recently got a new GPU, plugged vr in for the first time today. Ram usage goes up and up and up and does not stop until it crashes itself, has this happened to anyone before?

[JaguarPirate]

This is happening to me as well. I upgraded from an NVIDIA 3060 to AMD 9070xt using a PSVR2 with the PC adapter. vrcompositor in resource monitor shows the working set and shareable climb until I close out of SteamVR or it crashes. I've used DDU to uninstall all my nvidia drivers in safe mode, restarted and then installed the latest AMD drivers. I've tried reinstalling steamvr, playstation vr2 app, all of steam, and drivers. Only thing I haven't done is reinstall Windows but I'm trying to avoid that if possible. The memory starts climbing as soon as VRHome opens up. I've tried disabling VRHome but then whenever I open Beat Saber I get the same results memory climbs for vrcompositor.exe.

The beta version and previous version of steamvr gave the same results.

Any help will be appreciative. I can also upload the vrcompositor.txt log somewhere if that will help troubleshoot.

https://ibb.co/sJMkjnTL - screenshot of resource monitor

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Originally posted by JaguarPirate:

This is happening to me as well. I upgraded from an NVIDIA 3060 to AMD 9070xt using a PSVR2 with the PC adapter. vrcompositor in resource monitor shows the working set and shareable climb until I close out of SteamVR or it crashes. I've used DDU to uninstall all my nvidia drivers in safe mode, restarted and then installed the latest AMD drivers. I've tried reinstalling steamvr, playstation vr2 app, all of steam, and drivers. Only thing I haven't done is reinstall Windows but I'm trying to avoid that if possible. The memory starts climbing as soon as VRHome opens up. I've tried disabling VRHome but then whenever I open Beat Saber I get the same results memory climbs for vrcompositor.exe.

The beta version and previous version of steamvr gave the same results.

Any help will be appreciative. I can also upload the vrcompositor.txt log somewhere if that will help troubleshoot.

https://ibb.co/sJMkjnTL - screenshot of resource monitor

I gave in and reset my entire PC, i'll let you know if this fixed it for me

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Sadly not even a complete fresh install fixed it, but I have a similar story to you

I went from a 1080ti, uninstalled the drivers, set up in a 9070 non XT version. Maybe it's a driver issue? I have no clue

[Rectus]

It's usually the headset driver that does the major memory allocations in vrcompositor.exe. If you are using a third-party headset, it might be worth trying a different driver version if there are any available, as well as reporting the issue to the vendor.

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Originally posted by Rectus:

It's usually the headset driver that does the major memory allocations in vrcompositor.exe. If you are using a third-party headset, it might be worth trying a different driver version if there are any available, as well as reporting the issue to the vendor.

For me it's a valve index

[Rectus]

It might be worth trying older GPU drivers in case the lateat ones have issues (if there are ones available for so new cards). Otherwise it's going to be up to Valve or AMD to fix it.

[Stalker The English Dragon]

I've sent off a steam support request but I guess there's really not much else that can be done for now

[Denuviate]

Same here. New pc, fresh install. It's been working perfectly the past several days but now vrcompositor.exe eats up all RAM and then starts dropping frames, even in VRhome.
Im on a 7900xtx, 9800x3d & 64GB ram using a valve index.

[Ozzyx]

Same here, just switched my RTX 2070 for 9070 XT and vrcompositor.exe is eating all available RAM (25/32GB) using Valve Index.

[Denuviate]

After downgrading the AMD driver from 25.3.1 (2025-03-06) to 25.2.1 (2025-02-11) it works again.

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Thanks for the reply, which gpu do you have if you don't mind me asking?

[Ralley-sama!]

This seems to happen to me after updating several drivers (Quest, Video card, chipset). I've only been able to reproduce it while using Quest Link, Steam VR, and VRChat. Steam VR and Virtual Desktop streamer apps don't seem to have a problem. I'm going to try downgrading the Radeon driver first.

I also use the link cable connection since there's too many devices on my wifi.

My stats:
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
64 GB 3000 MHz DDR RAM
Quest 3 512

EDIT: Can confirm, it looks like downgrading the AMD driver to 25.2.1 fixed the problem.

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Originally posted by J'Dierne:

Downgrading my drivers worked perfectly, btw. Definitely a latest driver issue. 25.3.1 was marked as "optional" on the website, but was prompted as a standard update in the software. Heavily suggest downgrading to the previous version before anything else, if you've updated in the last few weeks.

Thanks for the info. looks like rx 9700 users are kind of screwed for now though as I don't think there are any previous drivers :(

[Stalker The English Dragon]

Originally posted by J'Dierne:

Originally posted by Stalker The English Dragon:

Thanks for the info. looks like rx 9700 users are kind of screwed for now though as I don't think there are any previous drivers :(

find the amd site then path to |en|support|download|drivers.html

Enter your hardware specs for the graphics card, select it, and afterwards, MAKE SURE you click the black button that says "previous versions" to see the full list.

Sadly there are no previous drivers right now, so I guess I'm stuck waiting

[Techen]

Came here to say 7800x3d and 9070XT, Real bad memory leak for me too. Looks like new AMD drivers bricked steam VR