"Running out of video memory" with an RTX 3090?

[eXimius]

I've had multiple random crashes stating that I've run out of video memory. I kept my resource monitor on to check and see how much is being used by the game, and to see where it is when the game crashes. The game tops out at around 8gb out of my 24gb on-board, so I'm really confused as to why this would be happening.

[DiViOS]

Enable Vsync or Limit your frame rate. Right click your desktop and go to display settings>advanced display settings. Whatever your monitor default is, set your frame limits in game to the same. Or do both. Use DX11 instead of DX12 (on launch), it's more stable, less resource demanding and honestly DX12 doesn't improve the quality that much.

[eXimius]

Originally posted by DiViOS:

Enable Vsync or Limit your frame rate. Right click your desktop and go to display settings>advanced display settings. Whatever your monitor default is, set your frame limits in game to the same. Or do both. Use DX11 instead of DX12 (on launch), it's more stable, less resource demanding and honestly DX12 doesn't improve the quality that much.

The first thing I tried was frame limiting, and that did not work. For anyone with a similar issue, the solution was switching to DX11. Thanks a bunch for the suggestion!

[Rogue]

intel cpu?

[Lucifer]

Had the same issues. After the hotfix last Friday, started getting crashed in DX11. One of the crashes corrupted something with GeForce Experience and it decided to crash while installing drivers now my card doesn’t work for any Unity type game (getting Out of Memory issues with Grounded now and it won’t launch).

[Xerastraza]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Had the same issues. After the hotfix last Friday, started getting crashed in DX11. One of the crashes corrupted something with GeForce Experience and it decided to crash while installing drivers now my card doesn’t work for any Unity type game (getting Out of Memory issues with Grounded now and it won’t launch).

Have you tried just grabbing drivers form the website manually and not using the horrid geforce Go app? This is also a UE4 game so weird its affecting Unity.

[Lucifer]

So is Grounded. So it’s UE not Unity that’s affected the most. Yes, I tried uninstalling all drivers and GeForce experience. Manual installation of older drivers without including GeForce Experience… still can’t launch most 3D games. Says my card is unrecognizable or I am out of memory.

[eXimius]

Originally posted by Rogue:

intel cpu?

Yes, an i7 12700K

Update: I crashed last night in DX11. There was no error this time, it just crashed straight to desktop. Otherwise, I've been playing for multiple hours straight since switching to DX11.

[Lord Rak]

Originally posted by eXimius:

I've had multiple random crashes stating that I've run out of video memory. I kept my resource monitor on to check and see how much is being used by the game, and to see where it is when the game crashes. The game tops out at around 8gb out of my 24gb on-board, so I'm really confused as to why this would be happening.

did you customized your v-ram at any point ? or virtual memory ?
if yes, then that is your problem, set it to system managed.
and if you play Star Citizen and you listen to those idiots in Spectrum Help-desk there to tell you to raise your v-memory then they causing your problem.