VRAM/cache causing stuttering

[Slerian-2102]

This game has got some wicked VRAM issues. The textures used must be just eatting tons of the cache. However, my VRAM usage is at 95% and my game keeps turning into a slide show while playing on 4k resolution. This needs to be looked at because it appears that you’ve had reports of similar problem all the way back in March.

Game is eating all my GCards VRAM!

Surely this isn’t right? I have a 3080 TI with 12GB of VRAM. Using a 4k monitor. I get pretty bad stutters on high resolution texture settings because it is eating all my VRAM. All the rest of my settings are maxed out… But as soon as I put it down to medium texture resolution, the stutters totally go away. All the other settings are still maxed, and suddenly, way less stutters… I noticed it uses about 500MB-1GB less depending where I am in game, so it isn’t quite capping out the VRAM and th…

Game VRAM usage is terrible and causes constant stuttering

Tested and confirmed. The stuttering is about VRAM not being handled well by the game. So essentially - “optimization”. The game uses currently 23GB out of 24GB VRAM on 7900 XTX (4k, maxed settings). By lowering shadows and textures to medium, the VRAM usage dropped from 23GB to 14GB (I was in a dungeon). After walking out from the dungeon, I got a major stutter and noticed as the VRAM usage bumped up by 400MB in an instant. = the stuttering is caused by poor VRAM handling This was present i…

The most likely cause of this is swapping from VRAM to RAM (hence the stutters) so it doesn’t just cause a hard crash. This obviously is an incredibly poor experience. Can this please be looked into…

(Bear in mind that the game works flawlessly 70-80 FPS, until I hit 90-95% VRAM then BAM! 18 fps, then back up to 80, then 10, then back up to 80)…

[Gorgor-1448]

Try this, as it affects the game directly, esp frame rates and all.

Windows Firewall, disable it and try again. IF it works, modify the FW.

[Slerian-2102]

Thanks for responding. I can’t see how my firewall would upset the game other than packets inspection being broke with windows firewall? Which would be a fairly big issues since a firewall is only supposed allow/deny traffic on inbound/oubound ports if rules are declared.

Tbh since turning shadows down (again smaller textures so less VRAM hogging) I’ve had a fairly smooth experience.

My settings so far:

Everything set to highest possible but these are the settings I’ve turned down:

DLAA
Max FPS: 120
Texture quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Reflex: Disabled
VSync: On

Everything else is at maximum possible. Now my VRAM hoovers around 92% and I don’t get ‘as much’ stuttering (though is can happen here-and-there).

[Aspry-21316]

Try to lower your Teture quality for proof of what i figgured out, posted here:

Issue with 4K Textures -> VRAM Overload and Stuttering/Crashing Game + FIX

Hello all, I have found a crazy bug. We all had problems in the beta with the so called “Ram Bug”, where the game used the VRAM of the computer massively. First of all, let me show you how my system looks like: CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X (AM4) VGA: RTX 4090 ROG STRIX MEM: G-Skill Trydent Z 64 GB @3600 (DDR4) I’ve been getting problems, freezes and crashes while streaming with obs on twitch while doing this I noticed via Riva Tuner that the VRAM usage is increasing and probably not being cleaned up …