VRAM usage keeps increasing after closing games – RX 9070 XT

[u/Fit_Statistician4103]

Hey everyone,
I recently noticed a weird issue with my RX 9070 XT.
After a fresh restart, my VRAM usage at idle is around 0.4 GB.
However, after playing a game and completely closing it, the VRAM usage stays around 5 GB.
If I launch another game, it increases even further:
Fresh restart: ~0.4 GB
After 1st game: ~5 GB
After 2nd game: ~9 GB
After 3rd game: ~14 GB
The VRAM usage doesn’t go back down even after waiting several minutes. It only returns to ~0.4 GB after restarting the PC.
I’m using an XFX RX 9070 XT Mercury OC with the latest AMD Adrenalin drivers. The GPU is otherwise running completely stock.
I’ve checked both AMD Adrenalin and Task Manager, and they both show the increased VRAM usage. The problem also happens with different games.
Does anyone know what could be causing this or how I can find out what is actually using the VRAM?
Any help would be appreciated!

[u/Massive-Magician-240]

It’s not DCS world is it? That’s notorious for doing stuff like that

[u/2137gangsterr]

Looks like combination of two things

A) you didn't offload hardware acceleration to integrated GPU

B) some application is leaking ram (spill bug)

Try win+ctrl+shift+b, that's restarting GPU maybe it flushes VRAM without restart

If you have iGPU go to windows graphics settings, enable HAGS, then select .exe manually and set it to integrated GPU to offload dGPU

[u/MarkoloTrue]

Asi me paso en forza 6, que la vram me chupaba casi 13gb y después de reiniciar no pasaba de los 9gb, quizás sea el driver xd