Insurgency: Sandstorm

Insurgency: Sandstorm

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tonyvador67 Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:33pm
Memory leak / insane RAM usage / help needed
hey guy
just wanted to ask if any of you encountered memory leak/high amount of RAM usage in the final release of the game and if there are any fixes yet
when i start playing its fine for 5-10 mins (4-4.5 GB of RAM used for the game)
then the game starts to use more and more RAM until about 8-10 GB at this moment important stuttering start to appear and make the game unplayable
finally when its starts to come close to 12-13GB the game just crash to desktop with an UE4 error message
i use task manager on my 2nd screen to check RAM usage while the game is running on my main one

specs :
16GB of DDR4 RAM @2133MHz
i7 6700k
MSI GTX 970
samsung SSD (game and system installed on it)
Win10

pretty much all settings are on low in the game (textures on med and some anti-aliasing on)

i verified the game files already didnt solve the issue
didnt try to reinstall the game tho

any help/support would be greatly appreciate
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tonyvador67 Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:35pm 
so i can basically play for 20-30 mins before the stutterings appear and about 1h untill it crashes
Intel Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:50pm 
Can you post your ingame settings in here?

EDIT: nvm, turn off "Keep Loaded Textures" & set "Texture Streaming Pool" to low.

This works for me.
Last edited by Intel; Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:52pm
sunToxx Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:54pm 
You should run some tests that verify your ram. Also, on graphics options, the last one, something with "remember mipmaps" or so, you should have turned off. And reduce the setting above, for video texture use. That's both video mem though.

I'm also on 16Gb Ram and the game plus the rest takes up about 12Gb while playing. Does not cause stutter or crashing though. Been playing like 5 hours straight.

Other things you could try, are making sure your mainboard drivers are up to date (not using the Microsoft provided ones). Downclocking the RAM, if you got it OCed. Making sure the Ram timing settings in your bios match the ram (google the model number, the ram should have a sticker on it). Or setting your mainboard to "safe defaults" (might want to save your current settings, before doing that. If your mainboard has a save profile feature).
Last edited by sunToxx; Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:58pm
tonyvador67 Dec 15, 2018 @ 6:55pm 
well every other game is running fine so why should tweak ram settings ?
tonyvador67 Dec 15, 2018 @ 7:01pm 
and btw wtf 12GB of RAM ?
is there a way to lower that usage ?
Intel Dec 15, 2018 @ 7:03pm 
Originally posted by sunToxx:
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I'm also on 16Gb Ram and the game plus the rest takes up about 12Gb while playing.

Its only using 5gb for me.
Arc Dec 16, 2018 @ 12:56am 
Restore video defaults or use Low global preset, then configure your settings as you like.

If you do not have large amount of RAM then leave "Keep Loaded Textures" turned OFF as suggested by mason_420.
BENGA Dec 16, 2018 @ 1:46am 
Originally posted by mason_420:
Originally posted by sunToxx:
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I'm also on 16Gb Ram and the game plus the rest takes up about 12Gb while playing.

Its only using 5gb for me.
https://imgur.com/a/FUrOK3S
LOL nope upto 9.5gb is used along side super under utilization
Tupactheon Dec 16, 2018 @ 1:48am 
This solved the stutters for me:

1. Manually clear your settings cache: Open the start menu and type: %Localappdata% and hit enter, find the "Insurgency" folder in the window that pops up and simply delete it. This will wipe all config settings for the game such as keybinds and video settings so you will have to configure them again.
2. Right click the game icon inside your steam library, select properties, select launch command, copy-paste the command below, hit ok.
-USEALLAVAILABLECORES
3. Open the game.
4. Turn OFF texture streaming.
5. Turn OFF Vsync in game.
6. Turn OFF limit FPS
7. Turn OFF framerate smoothing
8. Restart the game and play!

After those simple steps im playing 80-90 FPS on High-Very High with tesselation and TAA on, motion blur completely off (Cause i dont like that effect on FPS games) and the game looks gorgeous plus no stutters at all.

My PC specs:
FX 8350 8 cores 4.4 ghz
16GB ram DDR3
AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
HDD 500GB
ASUS pro gaming aura 970 motherboard.
tonyvador67 Dec 16, 2018 @ 3:20am 
ok i applied your solution doesnt work for me
i still have stutters
Tupactheon Dec 16, 2018 @ 9:52am 
Originally posted by =F|A=tonyvador67:
ok i applied your solution doesnt work for me
i still have stutters
that's bad for you dude, idk any other solution for in-game stuttering,hope you fix it soon. Also test texture streaming at low, for some players setting it to low fix stuttering.
Is the GTX 970 stock or is it OC version?
tonyvador67 Dec 16, 2018 @ 10:58am 
its a MSI gaming version so y OC btw i had the same issue during beta one, then the game ran perfectly during the second beta but since the full release it appears again
rly suck i'd like to play the damn game
tonyvador67 Dec 16, 2018 @ 10:59am 
doesnt seems to be a GPU problem i think its the RAM coz stutters only appear when the game starts to use more than 8-10 GB or RAM after 10-15min of playtime
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Date Posted: Dec 15, 2018 @ 5:33pm
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