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From my understanding, with Nvidia there's no shared memory on Linux, so when your VRAM maxes out, you get a crash or your game will run in single digit frames.
There is nothing to be done except lowering textures and other VRAM intensive settings, and hoping that one day Nvidia fixes the no shared memory issue.
(I'm assuming you have a Nvidia GPU solely based on those low VRAM numbers)
It shouldn't. You can even use vram as swap and max it out.
because it crashes when maxed out instead of just killing the game I assume you're on nvidia? It should just kill the game, I know nvidia had some issues releasing vram with stuff running in wine for years.
Lower settings. Sorry, thats all there is to it. 8GB is not a lot these days (i have two older cards in my PC and they're both 12). Textures, screen resolution, there's a bunch you can do.
Crashes are unavoidable, given that everyone wants max performance everywhere, things get shipped with all the debugging and checking stripped.
Kinda, I have this issue with Diablo 4. It might with work other games that use dxvk, but you van try creating a config file in the same directory as the executable:
"dxvk.conf" with the following lines: dxgi.maxDeviceMemory=8192 dxgi.maxSharedMemory=8192
Worth a shot.
As far as I know, there's no shared memory with Nvidia on Linux so that last flag might not do anything
Maybe, but it definitely helped keep it playable.
Never had this happen on my setup. Have a nv3080 optimus with integrated AMD GPU though.
I don't think I can help per say but it might help others if they knew a bit more about your setup.
nivida-smiuname -aplasmashell --versionKf5-config --versionThose bits might help.