I finally committed to Linux at the end of last year. Enough is working to make it preferable to Windows now. I’m still having a lot of bugs, and it’s costing quite some time. But at least my computer is mine again. No more telemetry, ads, and UIs that treat me like a toddler. No more updates forced onto me instead of being done whenever I want it.
I know that 8GB is too little. NVIDIA is really stingy when it comes to VRAM unfortunately. Beack when I made the decision this 3070Ti was the most expensive I could buy and I needed CUDA for some projects I was working on. Back then AMD’s ROCm had bad support on consumer GPUs and also in libraries, so I didn’t have a choice. I’m hearing better noises now though, so maybe my next card will be AMD.
Either way, I’d expect at most the game to crash. That would be acceptable, though annoying. Preferably it’d use the RAM as a sort of swap, which would grind everything to a halt but wouldn’t outright kill the game or my desktop. I really shouldn’t be losing all open windows
Ah that would explain the issues and the difference with Windows. I’m on NVIDIA yeah. Going over the VRAM limit and writing into RAM surely isn’t ideal either, but it would beat crashing out entirely. It also seems that Unreal engine 5 games just consume all VRAM they can. Like they’re almost claiming everything they can get away with, but somehow usually work fine. But once I alt+tab or switch workspace there is no VRAM left and Wayland commits sudoku (for good reasons).
Oh yeah I found something similar just now which might work? Using DXVK_CONFIG=“dxgi.maxDeviceMemory = 6144:” %command% to try and limit the game to 6GB VRAM. It hasn’t crashed since, but I’m unsure whether that’s because of this. I could try the other parameter as well and see if that works, though reading the comments I’m unsure about that. Worth a try
EDIT: I also found a comment on the NVIDIA forums detailing this solution. Apparently you can configure this system-wide, which would limit the VRAM on all DXVK games
Ironically my laptop, which has been Linux-only since 2015 or something, has finally stopped working properly. The dedicated GPU (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) no longer has working drivers with the kernel from Ubuntu 24.04. Then again, it wouldn’t run windows 11 either probably.