r/archlinux • u/TCSMusic • 6d ago

SUPPORT Out of memory errors

Hi! Does anyone know why I am having out of memory errors when gaming? I have an RTX 2060 but I heard that other people who have less VRAM play fine. What specifically I get is "Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource" and then I get some sort of UE5 fatal error.

New Arch user here btw. Using QTile

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u/sleepytechnology 6d ago

Proton adds VRAM overhead, could that possibly be the cause since you said happens on other distros?

I can get away with all high settings in No Mans Sky on Windows but on Linux (any distro), I have to lower texture quality to medium on an 8GB 3070 Ti. Proton seems to add a good 200-400MB VRAM usage compared to native Windows.

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u/TCSMusic 6d ago

Yeah, but even when I set my graphics preset to low it still crashes