Running out of video memory on 1060 6gb?

[A]

It exits me from the game in Fortnite, PUBG, Quake, and some other games. Is there any way I could fix this?

[Cathulhu]

Are all your drivers up to date? Not just your video driver.

[Sapph]

Are you getting an error saying that there isn't enough video memory? Or what are you basing your assumption to?

is your framerate in the games normal?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You sure you're using the correct GPU?
NVIDIA and not the AMD or Intel?
What errors are you getting?
You don't run out of VRAM, it will just flush shadercache to make room. Games might stutter at times when this occurs, but you're not going to run out of VRAM and then have games crashing, if that is occurring, something is wrong with the GPU or Drivers.

[A]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Are you getting an error saying that there isn't enough video memory? Or what are you basing your assumption to?

is your framerate in the games normal?

Yeah, they're normal.
I'm getting an error saying something like ''Ran out of video memory while trying to allocate a texture''

[Sapph]

Originally posted by borb:

Yeah, they're normal.
I'm getting an error saying something like ''Ran out of video memory while trying to allocate a texture''

Hmm...how much system RAM do you have?
It normally shouldn't be the issue, but after quick googling, some did get rid of it by upgrading system RAM. My guess is that some of these games do load some of such stuff to system RAM as well. A form of an unoptimization.

Otherwise, try reinstalling/updating Windows.

[A]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Originally posted by borb:

Yeah, they're normal.
I'm getting an error saying something like ''Ran out of video memory while trying to allocate a texture''

Hmm...how much system RAM do you have?
It normally shouldn't be the issue, but after quick googling, some did get rid of it by upgrading system RAM. My guess is that some of these games do load some of such stuff to system RAM as well. A form of an unoptimization.

Otherwise, try reinstalling/updating Windows.

8gb of RAM

[C2Dan88]

Its most likely you are running out of memory and/or your pagefile size is too small.

Try increasing the pagefile by a few gigs or upgrade to 16GB memory.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Is it a knock off from ebay?

[A]

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Is it a knock off from ebay?

im pretty sure it isnt, but is there anyway I could know? (windows+r dxdiag says its a 1060 6gb)

[_I_]

try gpuz
post the screenshots

[fenderjaguar]

Post graphs of RAM and VRAM usage, whilst gaming. You can see them in the performance tab of task manager

[Damian]

Luckly i have also the 1060 6GB.

The PC works like this
Harddrive -> RAM -> vRAM
If there is enough vRAM, all the files will be cached inside the vRAM.
If there is only lets say, 4GB vRAM, the rest will be stored inside the RAM and loaded to the vRAM when needed.

It can also be, that your GPU is broken and a vram chip isn't working.
I have a GTX1060 6GB and i run everything on it for months. No issues.

Lower everything down except the resolution and try it again. If it doesn't run on low, you should RMA your GPU.

[A]

Originally posted by _I_:

try gpuz
post the screenshots

alright, ill try that when I can

[PATENT]

If you have RAM in single channel you will have terrible FPS

[A]

Originally posted by Patent:

If you have RAM in single channel you will have terrible FPS

My FPS is normal.