The latest stable NVIDIA 470.57.02 drivers are causing high RAM consumption leading to system freeze when playing DX12 games through steam proton. DX12 games like Horizon : Zero Dawn and Forza Horizon 4 all crash at the loading screen and freeze the system since the NV process eats up all the avail…

This is occurring for me as well with Cyberpunk 2077. Noticing that when I increased my RAM from 16GB to 32GB the RAM usage was still pretty high. Using roughly 20.3GB of Memory and 1.8GB of Swap. As the game was closed and reopened the RAM kept getting higher until the game couldnt start from a sav…

I’m also having this problem with Horizon: Zero Dawn, played on Steam with Proton Experimental. The game boots fine but crashes about 80% of the way through the loading screen. After increasing my swap file to 8 GB (I have 16GB RAM) I was able to load a game and play for a few minutes before crashin…

Since I have only 8GB of RAM it simply crashes during save load. Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.84.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.13.6-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz …

It is not Arch specific. I have the same issue on Mint with 470 driver. Issue has been reported to Nvidia when 470 was in beta phase and they are aware of it. I can repro this issue with Cyberpunk 2077 on my system with 16 gb ram. It fills my entire system memory in a couple of minutes. Also ; Ste…

I am running into the same issue on the 470.57.02 drivers. I am using an RTX 3070 on Linux Mint 20.2 and the 5.13 kernel. Resident Evil Village keeps using more and more memory until it eventually crashes.

same here with an RTX 3060 on 470.57.02 with kernel 5.12.14

Same issue on 470.57.02. Running Solus and having this issue with CP2077.

I am running into the same issue on the 470.57.02 drivers. I am using a RTX 2060 on Manjaro and I’m using the 5.13 kernel. This issue is happening on any dx12 game I try to run. Assassins Creed Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077. On the loading screen, the game will take up 12gb of ram then when I start to t…

So why is there no response to this, we literally can not play any games that use dx12 (vkd3d) because of the memory leak. This should be priority

This is also still happening with the latest 470 driver. (470.63.01 )

High RAM consumption when playing DX12 games - NVIDIA 470.57.02 drivers

Graphics / Linux Linux

amrits August 17, 2021, 6:54am 12

Hi All,
This is to keep everyone updated that we are aware of the issue and working on it.
Bug 3341865 has been filed internally for tracking purpose.
I will keep everyone updated with the progress.

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