Vram usage at idle is very high

[SandwichesANDMilk]

my GTX 1060 3gb and GTX 670 both run at 1.5gb vram usage with no game or any other graphically intensive apps running. I don't use the 1060 and the 670 at the same time, just one or the other. im getting horrible FPS in games I should be able to run on both cards. I wanna play VR (and test it on the 670) but I don't have enough vram. the 670 is a decent card that should be able to still run many games but with 3/4 of its vram (2gb) used it cant run crap. it was fine day before yesterday.

im running latest windows 10 that was reinstalled not long ago and latest drivers

other specs:
I5-9600K @5.1ghz

16gb DDR4
GTX 1060 3gb (or GTX 670 if i'm testing stuff)

[Moonzy]

12 minutes ago, SandwichesANDMilk said:

the 670 is a decent card that should be able to still run many games but with 3/4 of its vram (2gb) used it cant run crap.

not for VR afaik

GTX 970 and 1060 seems to be the minimum for it...?

[SandwichesANDMilk]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

not for VR afaik

GTX 970 and 1060 seems to be the minimum for it...?

the 1060 3gb does it well but for the games I play minimum says 960 which the 670 is close to but thats not really what im concerned about, I wanna atleast play non VR which I cant with vram being dumb

[Moonzy]

Just now, SandwichesANDMilk said:

the 1060 3gb does it well but for the games I play minimum says 960 which the 670 is close to but thats not really what im concerned about, I wanna atleast play non VR which I cant with vram being dumb

did you try DDU and reinstall the latest drivers?

[SandwichesANDMilk]

Just now, Moonzy said:

did you try DDU and reinstall the latest drivers?

I'll try that

[SandwichesANDMilk]

16 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

did you try DDU and reinstall the latest drivers?

did it and the vram usage is climbing up like before but is lower, about 0.7gb

[SandwichesANDMilk]

opened steam and it went past a gigabyte

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, SandwichesANDMilk said:

did it and the vram usage is climbing up like before but is lower, about 0.7gb

 

well this is what im getting on my 970, with chrome open and 2 screens

[SandwichesANDMilk]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

 

well this is what im getting on my 970, with chrome open and 2 screens

I closed firefox and it dropped so I guess for some reason that's doing it????

it went up to 986 when I reopened to post and is slowly climbing up past 1gb
performance is better but not as good as I had it before

[Moonzy]

Just now, SandwichesANDMilk said:

I closed firefox and it dropped so I guess for some reason that's doing it????

it went up to 986 when I reopened to post and is slowly climbing up past 1gb
performance is better but not as good as I had it before

did you enable hardware acceleration for browser? that might be it?

[SandwichesANDMilk]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

did you enable hardware acceleration for browser? that might be it?

turning hardware acceleration seems to have fixed it, thanks!