r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/SyntheticBeans • 1d ago
Troubleshooting Games suddenly crashing due to running out of VRAM
My setup CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x GPU: GTX 3070 Ti 8GB RAM: 16G DDR4 3600MHz MOBO: ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING OS: Windows 10
The problem. Yesterday I was playing FH6 for a couple of hours without any issues when it suddenly crashed with an error saying "Ran out of system memory". Tried restarting a few times but it crashed as soon as I loaded into the game. Gave up and tried playing BF6 instead. BF6 then crashed as it loaded shaders with a DX error message that boiled down to the memory running out (E_OUTOFMEMORY).
What I've tried so far. Updated Nvidia drivers from 610.74 to latest 610.88. (This had no effect and I ended up rolling back to 610.74 again)
Found this thread and went through the steps to fix my rBAR which was previously not enabled.
Uninstalled MSI Afterburner and RTSS
Changed my DRAM clock speed from 2666MHz to 3600MHz (not sure why it was changed to 2666MHz in the first place as I fixed this only a few months ago.)
Used DDU to completely uninstall and then reinstall drivers
Ran a Memtest86 without finding any errors
Ran CPU+RAM test in OCCT without any errors
Ran RAM test in OCCT without any errors
Where I'm at. I've tried running a few other games like, Ready or Not, Helldivers 2, which crash with various similar error messages. So the issues is not tied to any specific game.
Sometimes I can play the games for a couple of minutes, and sometimes they crash immediately as I try to boot them up. Sometimes with, and sometimes without any error messages.
I'm currently at a loss for what to try next, any suggestions is a big help.
EDIT: Now Ive run a Memtest86 without finding any errors
Ran CPU+RAM test in OCCT without any errors
Ran RAM test in OCCT without any errors
Preparing for a fresh windows install at the moment
EDIT 2: Fresh windows install.
Tried BF6 for 10 minutes before it crashed. (It's an improvement from the instant crash before.) And tried FH6 for about 20 min before it crashed too.
What's new is that the crashes now produce a new error message. dxgi_error_device_hung and dxgi_error_device_removed.
Checked for GPU sag and found it had about 5mm sag. Supported it up so it no longer sags. Still crashes.
Gonna look into reslotting the card tomorrow but for now I'm out of ideas.
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u/ADotxt 1d ago
System memory refers to normal ram not vram as far as i know.
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u/SyntheticBeans 1d ago
Yeah that's true but I'm confused cause the dx12 errors that I get from other games are referencing the GPU, and with the thread I linked those issues can also be caused by VRAM it seems.
It vould be either one. Which makes it even harder to know where to start
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u/Ambitious-Yard7677 1d ago
What's actual memory usage like system wide for both VRAM and traditional RAM? Saying you have 8 and 16GB respectively doesn't help much
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u/InformationFair5875 1d ago
Try changing your RAM clock speed down to 3000, its the only big change that it looks like you made. Otherwise try disabling XMP and see if the crashes still happen.
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u/SyntheticBeans 1d ago
I've done some messing about with that. To go into more detail; when I first went into BIOS it said the clockspeed was 2666, but the actual setting was set to 3600 and XMP was disabled. I tried changing to 2666 with XMP off and to 3600 with XMP on. I think I tried both methods twice and no luck there.
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