Vram Usage over time?

[ForensicRug]

Hey all,

 

I just have a curiosity I would like satiated; does Vram usage grow the longer you play a game? I have been playing gears of war 5, running at ultra 1440p and for the most part it looks and runs great. I understand at a base level how vram works and that vram usage recordings aren't necessarily how much it's actually "using" and needs as much as it is what it's usually to cache things just because it has the memory available. However, when I first boot into a missing in GoW5 it records using around 7.1gb of Vram; after about an hour and a half the game started having minor stutters and the game was using around 7.7gb of vram which I believe is around the actual vram available from the card and I'm assuming this is what's causing the stuttering. When I close the game and open it back up it goes right back too 7.1gb and does the same build up again, is this normal?

[Mark Kaine]

it depends on the game , usually vram gets swapped out quickly while loading levels or even dynamically, what you are describing sounds like a memory leak however (sloppy programming basically) not necessarily the fault of the GPU