Assetto Corsa filling 16 GB ram
Hi! I've encountered a problem while trying to connect to an Assetto Corsa server through Content Manager. The problem is as the game is loading the assets for the server (the assets being: 1 track, 24 cars textures/shaders and lightingFX stuff) my 16 GB ram is slowly filling up to FULL (and also the Swap space) and then Bazzite force quits and says "Steam was using too much memory".
For info: I know I can load that 24 car server because I did when I was using Windows without problems. The track load completes, then 8-11 cars' loading can be completed before the RAM fills up completely and crashes. That 8-11 is the actual loading limit even in Singleplayer mode. Increasing the Swap didn't help sadly. On Win11 this AC server with the same 24 cars used up about 12 GB ram when everything loaded (and an X amount of swap depending on what was happening while in-game, around 1-3 GB). That AC server is kinda critical to me, because it is a racing league I race in.
Proton version is: "GE-Proton9-2" obtained through ProtonUp-Qt, that is the only version that can run Assetto Corsa stable.
My 2 question is:
- Did anyone (in any other games too) run into this filling up problem?
- Is there any way to optimize RAM usage on Bazzite or Proton or Wine?
Thank you all for any input on this topic in advance!
Solution:Jump to solution
Actually I fixed it! The solution was a bit random, I found it while searching for a fix for this problem: Protontricks > Choose AC > Run winecfg > Libraries > Add new... > "dwrite" > Add > OK 😄
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It's a memory leak
you could try removing some mods and see if the problem goes away
That is a little bit tricky because nearly all the cars are modded in and required for the league and to connect to the server. I have a basic IT degree and never heard (or don't remember) of a "memory leak" what is that?
Solution
Actually I fixed it! The solution was a bit random, I found it while searching for a fix for this problem: Protontricks > Choose AC > Run winecfg > Libraries > Add new... > "dwrite" > Add > OK 😄