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Diablo IV (steam) - VRAM Leak - Help needed (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been having a couple of troubles playing Diablo IV, though they seem to be a lot worse with the new expansion. After a while of playing for a while, the game seems to leak VRAM and makes my desktop pretty unstable. Alt+tabbing occasionally breaks the game, the image freezes but I still hear the noises of the menus opening and such. If I don't alt-tab the game doesn't break.

I have found this reddit thread about setting a dxvk file to limit the amount of VRAM available to Diablo. I set up the max VRAM to 8gib but mangohud still reports 10gb being used. I tried setting the DXVK_CONFIG_FILE flag but that also doesn't seem to work. Mangohud report 10gb VRAM very fast. DXVK file contents:

dxgi.maxDeviceMemory=8192
dxgi.maxSharedMemory=8192

Decreasing the graphic settings just slows down the problem, it doesn't prevent it.

Launch options: DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/gamedrive/dxvk.conf mangohud %command%

Specs:

Intel i7-12700K @ 4.900GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (driver version: 560.35.03)
64GB DDR4
EndeavourOS Linux
6.11.3-zen1-1-zen
Hyprland
GE-Proton9-16

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe that config needs to be in the working directory context of the game, but maybe I’m misremembering that.

Yep, I tried that as well. I have the exact same file in /gamedrive//SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Diablo IV/

If upon starting your game, it immediately starts using 10GB of vid mem, then that is what is needed by the game to run. Setting this to 8GB is going to magically make it run by using less.

But the game does quickly fill 10GB with both low and ultra settings. It hints to me that the game doesn't need 10GB to run. It just makes use of the available memory. My theory is that using 8GB would at least make my desktop usable. Currently, switching to my browser in the second monitor can break the game. If I never focus out of the game it doesn't break.

Problem occurs in both x11 and wayland
Window vs fullscreen makes no difference
ProtonDB has some additional flags, I tried them all
I tried several proton versions from 8 to 9, GE and no GE. Made no difference

See if you can force a specific renderer that is more stable.

What are the available options? I haven't tried this.

Thanks a bunch!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Looking at ProtonDB, I don't think it's worth the trouble. All users seem to be reporting the same issues as you, so it's probably just the nature of running it in Proton.