Cold War beta uses up to 14gb of VRAM

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I have an RTX 3090 and here are my stats for Cold War beta:

  • 1440p monitor
  • Average of 170 or 180fps with peaks of 210 fps. This is without raytracing.
  • 77C
  • Up to 1920MHz from overclocking
  • 5 or 4ms GPU and CPU time
  • Up to 14gb of VRAM used and a minimum of 11gb

So it looks like games in the future are already going to be using more VRAM. Probably will include VR games. So it’s good I have 24gb of VRAM.

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Yeah, 10GB of vram isn’t enough for my next card. My 2080 has 8GB and I hit the limit in Elite Dangerous in VR and had to lower my settings. I want a card which can handle future games with ultra settings.

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It might just be allocated and not actually in use but still. If it’s allocated there’s a chance it will/can be used (if not today, then maybe tomorrow)… :+1::upside_down_face:

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I enabled the VRAM usage indicator in Cold war beta settings menu. And it was fluctuating between 10 to 14gb so it is most likely memory in use and not allocated. But who knows.

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Allocating vram isn’t the same as needing vram. This myth needs to go away.

Reminds me when people panic over windows “eating up their memory.”

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In my case, I’m sure about the 8GB being in use. With my current ED settings, vram usage is 7.6-7.8 GB (according to fpsVR) and if I increase super sampling any more, my framerate drops to single digits (from ~50-70 fps). ED has bad aliasing and really benefits from super sampling (because it uses a forward renderer and therefor can’t use “real” antialiasing).

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