Can anything be done to reduce VRAM usage?

[airbadger]

Maybe an option to turn PBR off? Really struggling on an 8GB card.

[Schlotterknie]

If you 'disable' PBR your are more or less back to EHAM v1. This is not an option in my opinion.

I lowered VRAM usage and raised performance by downsizing the metallic- and normalmaps from EHAM v2. Maybe FlyTampa should consider to provide a light texturepack option for EHAM V2. Just like they did for other products in the past. I guess that would help a lot of users like me that currently stuck with pretty old hardware because of ridiculous high graphics card prices.

[BrianV]

Hopefully something can be done about it, with my NVIDIA 2070 I am out of memory within less than a minute.

[StefanBravo]

Same problem here with an 8 GB GPU. I've disabled most options in the FT configurator but vRAM load remains very high. Hope something can be done about it.

Stefan

[Mikealpha2]

Try to reduce to 2048*2048 in P3D, it still looks good , in HD at least. I'm running EHAM `V2 with FSLabs and AS and get 4.7 GB out of 7.1GB VRAM. That's not more than other big airport sceneries

On a 4k Monitor with 4096*4096 it is quite obvious an 8GB GPU would struggle, not only at EHAM ?

[BrianV]

Thanks Mike, already at 2048, with Orbx TE Netherlands, ActiveSky and P3D 5.2 with EA.

[wingview]

I uninstalled True earth Netherlands and that saved 1,5 GB on the VRAM, also with a 8 GB card. Now no problem with all kind of weather, also at night.

Edit typo: 2,5 to 1,5.

[StefanBravo]

So I'm not using TE NL and I'm at 2048 x 2048. In the FT configurator I've disabled the cars, transparent glass and 3D grass. My general settings aren't extremely high either:

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Still, with the FSLabs, AS and GSX my vRAM usage goes over 6 GB. Just switching from cockpit view to external can cause a vRAM overload.

For comparison I checked the vRAM load at Copenhagen v2, where I'm using higher settings in the FT configurator. There the vRAM usage won't go over 5 GB no matter what I try.

Stefan

[awf1]

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Thanks Mike, already at 2048, with Orbx TE Netherlands, ActiveSky and P3D 5.2 with EA.

Setup following screenshots below :-) and gain VRAM plus FPS ;-)

[BrianV]

Many thanks for your excellent suggestions regarding ORBX TE Netherlands. That indeed lowers the VRAM usage to about 5.1 or so, and a lot more manageable.

[gregoryv]

Thanks a lot Awf1 for your settings.
Unfortunately these make very small effect on my system.
I found that reducing Level of detail radius under Terrain setting from Ultra to High (some users even set it to Medium) bring it to sweet spot for me.

[Jasperr]

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I lowered VRAM usage and raised performance by downsizing the metallic- and normalmaps from EHAM V2?

Hoe did you do this? I want to try this out to reduce my vram problem on eham