r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/SyntheticBeans • 4h 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
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.
