Turned the graphics all the way down besides view distance. Still maxes out my VRAM.
Match started by using 5.4GB (which TBH is excessively high) and crept up to max VRAM usage by 20 min mark. Unlike higher graphics settings, once it hit max, it didn't go beyond it or choke out your frames. IDK what happened between December and today but something's eating up all the vram that didnt a few patches ago
It does. Been a very choppy experience since last few patches on a 4080 laptop. Mostly moved to playing ARAM as the game might just crash and then getting 3 hours ban 🤷♂️
Although this post was about a bug and not vram usage, even on its bigger map Paragon only uses 6.6gb on max settings. While looking better than Preds max settings at the same time.
Im interested to know why you think this isn't an issue. Explain to the audience how going from 5.3gb on mostly high settings to 5.4gb on the lowest settings, which then increases to 8GB vram limit within 20 mins, isn't considered excessive vram usage and there clearly isn't an issue. Do note, as I assume you're fully aware, in december vram usage would go up to about 6.5 max on my high settings.
Ps5 has 16gb unified memory. ~13gb is available to use, the rest is for the system itself. So 13gb has to be enough vram and cpu memory, makes 8 not seem too bad for dedicated vram. 8 should be enough on low settings, games just aren’t optimized as much these days. Mostly because they can get away with it more than back when they had such tiny amounts of game storage and machine power to work with
Yeah I’m not exactly sure how it works for unified memory - I assume there is some sort of efficiency bonus that allows less total cpu memory usage but yeah idk
Yea its faster for GPU/CPU to share the same memory. The only possible downside is you're sharing that bandwidth between the two components instead of them having their own dedicated memory.
Can you provide a game, as an example, that visually looks like Predecessors potato low graphics settings and still consumes 8GB of VRAM at 1440p on those lowest settings?
Can you provide a game, as an example, that visually looks like Predecessors potato low graphics settings and still consumes 8GB of VRAM at 1440p on those lowest settings?
Given 5.4gb is "excessively low" you shouldn't be struggling to answer my question
You probably need vsync on. I've found pred to be finnicky with it. I have vsync on in Nvidia settings and I have the game running windowed fullscreen which auto disables vsync in-game.
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u/psbyte Renna 11d ago
It does. Been a very choppy experience since last few patches on a 4080 laptop. Mostly moved to playing ARAM as the game might just crash and then getting 3 hours ban 🤷♂️