Restrict game on VRAM usage.
Hi there, im having some major issues with SC as it loves to eat all my VRAM, can i limit it with Heroic? That would be awesome if i can.
16 Replies
fascinating-indigo•16mo ago
Most games let you control this from within them
Just use lower res textures and stuff like that
conscious-sapphireOP•16mo ago
Sadly with SC, that doesn't work. Still fills up the VRAM usage, plus puts a lot more data on the CPU making the game choppy
fascinating-indigo•16mo ago
Whats sc
conscious-sapphireOP•16mo ago
Star Citizen
fascinating-indigo•16mo ago
Tbh sounds like you should either lower visual fidelity or get a new gpu if you are running out of ram
Lower the texture resolution, render resolution.. Those will impact ram most
"Limiting" both RAM and VRAM use doesn't really work like that; applications will request as much as they need. If there's no more available, unless the app specifically handles this case, it'll just crash
So other than convincing the app to use less resources or somehow making more of that resource available (for example by getting newer hardware), you can't do anything about this
deep-jade•16mo ago
you cannot limit vram like that if the game truely needs it then it will just move everything over to ram
some games are dumb and will unnessessarily eat vram and by reducing reported vram size you can get them to allocate less
conscious-sapphireOP•16mo ago
That's what im trying to do, is to get it not to eat my 12gb VRAM so my system doesn't crash.
deep-jade•16mo ago
oh ur trying to avoid system crashes?
what res are you playing with
12 G of vram is a lot
conscious-sapphireOP•16mo ago
1080p.
deep-jade•16mo ago
wat 💀
conscious-sapphireOP•16mo ago
it should be eating 8gb but no it's eating all 12
deep-jade•16mo ago
what texture quality are you using
conscious-sapphireOP•16mo ago
If you have played Star citizen, you would understand on what im trying to do.
deep-jade•16mo ago
i don't have star citizen lol
fascinating-indigo•16mo ago
like i was saying, to reduce game's use of video memory, you have to lower settings. Literally that is the only way
by reducing texture size, it puts less pressure on vram, by lowering rendering resolution and using an upscaler like dlss or fsr, removing complex shader effects/posprocessing
but if the game has a leak in vram, this wont really help you long run as you'll just keep running out regardless
and that is on the devs to fix
just try flooring every visual setting in the game, see if it still happens, if it does, its a bug in the game and the developers will have to address it. Thankfully SC is still in alpha (somehow :P) so report the bug