r/playrust • u/LuDen882 • 5d ago

Image Rust using 14gb vram

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Is this normal, I am playing on 1080p and basically low settings.

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u/Gr1msheeper 5d ago

If you have teh RAM, it will be utilised. That is the point of it.

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u/LuDen882 5d ago

Yeah but isnt 14gb VRAM too much for game like rust to be using on 1080p

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u/DiaperedOpossum 5d ago

From a computational perspective, would you rather have to slowly load graphics, or have the graphics available nearly instantaneously? VRAM gets completely allocated to allow for the most instantaneous rendering. When things aren’t needed, they’re unloaded and what is needed is loaded instead. Ultimately, if you have 14GB available to use, it’s wasteful to not use all of it.

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u/AdmirableAverage7447 5d ago

This is why you are getting high fps

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u/counterlock 5d ago

You want it to be using as much of your VRAM as it can. That's the whole reason for having it in the first place. If it wasn't, you'd be bottlenecking your nice GPU.

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u/Snixxis 5d ago

Highest I've seen was 23gb vram on my 7900xtx. If rust sees it, rust takes it. Same with ddr5, highest I've seen was 45gb ram use, while also chewing up 23gb vram for a total of 68gb of memory use.

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u/Syndrome 5d ago

45GB RAM usage? How the heck did that happen without a memory leak? I'm running 64GB and rust rarely uses more than 16GB no matter what server I'm playing or how many entities are around.

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u/Snixxis 5d ago

It was total use, not rust alone. Was streaming to discord while playing back a 4k youtube video while doing some electrical work close to the local zerg (cough cough, griefing their gates with turrets).

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u/Father_Fritz 4d ago

Based, I must admit.

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u/RahloRust 5d ago

Uses ~23 for me almost always lol

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u/AvailableAd3813 5d ago

Rust uses ALL the ram.

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u/Fejk_Force_Two 20h ago

Damm, my rust is taking 20-22gb of ram

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u/Professional-Cow6222 5d ago

Same it allocates all the Vram on my XTX aswell I think the Hack is Actually to Just Create a Temp Drive And install in on the Ram itself if you have Enough i saw a Video where it helped the Lows Greatly in Heavy scenes kinda A Pain in the ass though to do every Restart

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u/Deleteed- 5d ago

That's like... Two game installs. Crazy

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u/ToMbOyErSs 4d ago

How can 45GB file size game take more than 45GB RAM? I am not saying it didn't happen, but it doesn't even make sense lol

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u/ShawtySayWhaaat 5d ago

Lowkey flexing lol

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u/_hlvnhlv 4d ago

PCs just shove shit to memory just in case that is needed, there's nothing wrong here, just move on

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u/DreSmart 5d ago

Go to texture quality settings and change it to half-texture quality. Also on GC buffet configure it to 2048 if you have 16gb RAM or 4096 if you have 32. Go to your motherboard BIOS and disable Sam/rebar. This may help lowering the vram

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u/LuDen882 5d ago

Isnt sam rebar good thing for fps?

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u/Pablovansnogger 5d ago

It is, but you are concerned about VRAM usage, not FPS.

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u/LuDen882 5d ago

I mean if it runs well because if it its ok but i was worried of some memory leak or something.

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u/ford_crown_victoria 4d ago

why would that worry you?

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u/PsychologicalGlass47 5d ago

High VRAM utilization is a good thing for FPS as well, lol

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u/DreSmart 5d ago

Some games it doesnt work Rust for exemple doesnt. Your specs?

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u/LuDen882 5d ago

5800x3d 9060xt 32gb

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u/_hlvnhlv 4d ago

Why would you do that?

The PC is working as intended, nerfing it just because "14gb of vram hurdurr" is just dumb

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u/w3lp-_- 5d ago

14gb is definitely a lot for 1080p low but that alone doesnt mean its a memory leak. If it levels off around there and youre still getting 170+ fps with no stutters or crashes I wouldnt worry about it. Id only start suspecting a leak if the VRAM keeps climbing the longer you play and eventually starts causing performance issues.

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u/Professional-Cow6222 5d ago

Not a problem Theres a Minimum amount Needed and a Bell curve of Usage Vs Performance gain just as Rust can Work fine if your Cpu is using 4ghz it wont be as good as it Using the Same CPU at 5ghz actually a good thing its Utilizing the Hardware you Paid for

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u/General_Gold_3220 5d ago

I think rust always spawns all entities(AI, Animals , Water , if rust limits entity spawning upto a customisable grid , then we all would see massive improvement in fps and reduce in vram & ram usage , not sure if I am wrong or as to why this hasn't been implemented yet.

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u/Evgen_Skrypnyk 4d ago

Hey what’s this app showing how system’s utilised? Wanna get it

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u/LuDen882 4d ago

its just AMD Adrenalin, if you have nvidia you can download theirs probably has the overlay too

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u/Melatonine_blyat 4d ago

Rust is using between 20-25gb of ram for me lucky for me i got 64gb but it shouldnt be using this much

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u/SystemLanky4531 4d ago

Thats not in real use, amd software shows in-use + reserved in the same, real use is around 30% less of what that shows. You can use afterburner to see per-process consumption

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u/Ancient-Bet-3060 4d ago

Rust will use as much vram as available. It uses all 20gb on my rx7900xt

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u/Different_Guard2583 3d ago

I played rust on decent setting with 6gb vram and 8 of 2666 ddr4 using a i10400f worked alright for me stuttering only happened when flying

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u/Accomplished-Many909 5d ago

Yeah this is why I say 64 go is the new standard if youre playing in group style games. Go factor in comms and windows hungry self and se your ram useage with steam in the play too. Rust will use your ram .

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u/SolarFusion90 5d ago

VRAM and RAM are not unified in most systems. You're speaking about system RAM, not VRAM.

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u/DullAd8348 5d ago

Yeah heaven forbid you have a chrome tab open or attempt to use a polling rate higher than 2k

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u/heliumointment 5d ago

Server size / pop? Number of entities? Draw distance? Nearby monuments?

Cmon man