VRAM Memory Leak?

[JaimeF]

Hey,

 

I've recently been having some issues in GTA V as of recent. I notice after a while, I start to drop frames, typically when moving through GPU-intensive areas, as you would expect. Though this isn't really common for me. Up until recently GTA V has run fine maintaining 50-60 FPS, with most things set to their highest setting, the only real thing set much lower is the texture quality (Normal)

 

As I get into these GPU-intensive areas, textures will stop loading, and will just be an ugly, extremely low-resolution texture. Once I go further into these areas my game will simply crash, usually taking my GPU with it, forcing me to restart (blank screen). I get low memory warnings from Windows, and programs will often crash (MalwareBytes, Chrome, etc) even though I'm only at ~85% RAM usage in the worst cases, with GTA V using up about 2.5GB, which is perfectly normal. 

 

I've been monitoring my GPU and the VRAM is at nearly 100% usage for some reason, even though I've played the game fine on higher settings.

I've ran multiple different tools to see if my GPU is having a hissy fit, such as FurMark, 3DMark, PerformanceTest and compared benchmark scores to those with the same GPU, with normal scores. I've also tried stressing the VRAM and checking for errors using Video Memory Stress Test and memtestG80 (or memtestCL, I forgot which one). All my benchmark scores appear pretty normal and I've also tested my system memory (memtest86) to no avail.

 

What I suspect is perhaps my GPU is failing to flush old resources from the VRAM and load new resources in. I guess it could also be GTA V, but I have yet to see someone with the same issue.

I am running GTA V unmodded, completely Vanilla and up to date (v1.0.231.0), I have the most recent driver updates for my GPU and my temperatures are normal

 

My specs are

 

CPU: AMD FX 8350

Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0

RAM: 4 x 2GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz (2 x Kingston, 2 x G.Skill)

GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 270

PSU: Corsair CX600M

Game is running off a Samsung 1TB HDD

Windows is running of a 120GB Samsung 840 Evo

[Tedster]

What programs are you running in the background?

Chrome is both a RAM and VRAM hog in my experience.

[JaimeF]

What programs are you running in the background?

Chrome is both a RAM and VRAM hog in my experience.

MalwareBytes, Chrome, Dropbox, Steam, and DisplayFusion are probably the only ones that would make a huge difference I guess.

Nothing different to what I'd run normally prior to the crashes. Normally I'd only have 1 chrome tab open

[Tedster]

MalwareBytes, Chrome, Dropbox, Steam, and DisplayFusion are probably the only ones that would make a huge difference I guess.

Nothing different to what I'd run normally prior to the crashes. Normally I'd only have 1 chrome tab open

Right. I've sometimes had problems with a hundred tabs open eating all my VRAM, to the point where I couldn't play Minecraft at all...

[JaimeF]

Right. I've sometimes had problems with a hundred tabs open eating all my VRAM, to the point where I couldn't play Minecraft at all...

I've also tried shutting a lot of my background processes down before launching the game

[Tedster]

I've also tried shutting a lot of my background processes down before launching the game

Right. How long ago was it that you weren't having trouble? It could be the small update that I think they rolled out that could be making a difference?

[JaimeF]

Right. How long ago was it that you weren't having trouble? It could be the small update that I think they rolled out that could be making a difference?

 

~4 days ago

[Tedster]

~4 days ago

So it might've been Title Update 1.28?

https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/206137368

[JaimeF]

Its the Ill Gotten Gains pt.2 patch. I am also experiencing framerate drops in some areas.

 

Well known issue.

 

Any suggestions to fix? Lower the graphics settings more?