Hi, This issue is present since all driver versions. It seems like that the VRAM handling on linux does not work well, as soon it gets more full. As soon it reaches the near 8 GB VRAM using on the second monitor Discord or other applications, will result into that the drawing and performance does …

545.xx Failed to allocate NVKMS memory for GEM object when playing Diablo 4

Fijxu June 7, 2024, 2:22am 2

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