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[QUESTION] Is DXVK limited to 24 GB RAM only?

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doitsujin/dxvk#2917 · opened 2022-09-14 by rado84-github · updated 2022-09-14 · 3 comments · github
Rrado84-github 2022-09-14 github

Ever since the first version of DXVK was released I've noticed that in logs it reports "Memory heap 24018 MiB" which I suppose is the RAM. But I have 32 GB (31,3 GiB). So is DXVK limited to 24 GB RAM only or is that memory heap something else?

KK0bin maintainer 2022-09-14 github

What you're seeing there is the size of the Vulkan system memory heap. DXVK gets the value straight from the driver.

No game even gets remotely close to 24GB, let alone 32. Just to put this into perspective, if a game uses one gigabyte of HOST_VISIBLE Vulkan memory, that's a lot.

Rrado84-github 2022-09-14 github

I see. I was wondering if that difference between memory heap and my real quantity of RAM could be the reason for the poor performance on some games or maps of these games, like Fjords on WOT (https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/2909#issuecomment-1245902919), but I guess it's something else.

KK0bin maintainer 2022-09-14 github

It's not.

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