[REPORTED]High Memory Consumption

DCS 1.5 seems to be very memory hungry. My server is currently using 18GB RAM after about 2.5 hours and is still increasing! :shocking:

Since this is a server, the game is only sitting in the spectator menu and is doing nothing else.

Thanks for the reply c0ff! :)

An hour later it was up to 23GB.

ive noticed high vram usage too im using over 4.5 in multiplayer which is no big deal for a 8gb vram card but others might run into problems

That means your VRAM is used as a Cache as well, the more the better.

BTW, memory usage on browsing Encyclopedia :

Thanks for reporting this, I experience the same, some random crashes at the same time my web browser crashes too.

Yeah, causes the sim to crash for me. Seemed to start after the most recent update. No problem prior to that.

Yeah, causes the sim to crash for me. Seemed to start after the most recent update. No problem prior to that.

Same here

5Gb of RAM usage upon entering a simple free flight mission with about 8 players. Isn't that a bit too much?

This is double post of - http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=148714

But anyway, yes we got to 30GB ram on DCS ISRAEL server, there is definitely a leak.

Got issues here too. Often resulsts in complete freezup or crash of DCS.

I'm having trouble with this as we, not sure if there is a correlation but its worse on MP servers with many players. A lot of the time I can't even get off the ground before a crash. I have 8gb ram and am running on a mix of med and high settings.

definitely a leak. thanks for the report

This guy from the ED team has already said there's a leak.

High memory usage and Chrash

High memory usage message and Chrash.

Ingame memory consumption display

DCS start ~ 500 MiB

Encyclopaedia start ~ 760 MiB

Encyclopaedia browsed ~ 10800 MiB

many missions started ~ 14500 MiB

Task Manager processes tap

DCS start ~ 660 MiB

Encyclopaedia start ~ 785 MiB

Encyclopaedia closed ~ 2900 MiB

many missions started ~ 4500 MiB (before crash)

Task Manger Perfomance tap

DCS start ~ 1500 MiB

many missions started ~ 7500 MiB (before crash)

My system has 8 GiB RAM.

High-memory-usage-Error-Logs.zip

Same thing here.

Game starts off using 5 gigs of memory and then crashes my computer.

we are talking about two different RAMs here, VRAM and system ram.

Apperently, the leak is in the Ssstem RAM and is not related to the VRAM climbing up&up the longer you play.

Thing is, it WON'T stop when it has filled your physical VRAM ! It climbs beyond VRAM, most likely shuffling that part of the memory over to system ram, if that is good or not, I dont know, I still had same marvellous FPS when my VRAM usage showed 5.12GB...and I only have a 980GTX with 4GB, where were those 1.12GB ???

Got pics with MSI AFterburner in place that show how it slowly climbs and climbs ( I dont know if this is intented, good or bad )

regarding System RAM; yes, if it runs long enough it forces my system to occupy 8GB+ swapfile ( which should be disabled actually, but Win enables it again, no matter what you say or wish !), but DCS usually stays at around 3.8GB System RAM usage. I have no clue why there is a 8GB swapfile need when DCS 1.5 usually hogs just roughly 4GB...before it crashes etc...

Right now, servers crash so often and offline too that it doesnt really hinder me now for testing, in the long run it's gotta be tuned and looked at I guess.

hope this helps

we are talking about two different RAMs here, VRAM and system ram.

 

Apperently, the leak is in the Ssstem RAM and is not related to the VRAM climbing up&up the longer you play.

 

Thing is, it WON'T stop when it has filled your physical VRAM ! It climbs beyond VRAM, most likely shuffling that part of the memory over to system ram, if that is good or not, I dont know, I still had same marvellous FPS when my VRAM usage showed 5.12GB...and I only have a 980GTX with 4GB, where were those 1.12GB ???

 

Got pics with MSI AFterburner in place that show how it slowly climbs and climbs ( I dont know if this is intented, good or bad )

It happens to me also and I have just a gtx 970 :)... Seriously, running DCS with a single monitor (1900x1200) the 970 works wonder, I'm having 120 fps (playing the hip campaign) but yet again, I'm also capped at 120 because I don't feel more fps are needed.

But, I did notice that, upon mission start, VRAM usage is around 3.8 Gigs; on mission end tends to be higher than 5 gigs, and when that happen, fps go back to 60ish. Using mirrors seems to worsen this issue.

Also, I apologize in advance for going a little OT but, I'd like to add that the 970 is performing equally well when using 3 or 4 gigs of vram, which makes me believe that all the hype about the card going shambles when using more than 3.5 gigs, last year, really were some commercial bs.

It also may be true that systems with DDR4 RAM may perform significantly better that DDR3 ones, when the GPU has to start using system memory (RAM on video cards is DDR5).

I'm having problems too, (not yet, but it comes very close :P)

Same problem here and with 6gb of RAM it doesnt take long before its clogged up :(

Same problem here and with 6gb of RAM it doesnt take long before its clogged up :(

Me too :cry:

I`m having the same problem. 7.5Gb RAM memory taken at the entering into the cockpit, then game crashes after 5 to 10 minutes. Thats for p51. Its worst with K4, game crashes after 2 minutes.

I'm having problems too, (not yet, but it comes very close )

Heyyyy

Nederlander

But... Yeah I can't play multiplayer, keeps running out of ram and crashing.

eventually they 'll fix it. I must say that with 1.5 I'm having a blast just by fooling around with missionettes in the editor.

Also, single player campaigns seem to work, I had to restart the hip one because of lost content after update, but so far works fine

one quick question,

I encounter the same problem when I exit the mission.

where can I find the save folder?

thanks

G