Question Game reporting low max vram

[AwAurora]

Modding Skyrim and the Community Shaders mod is reporting that I only have ~10gb of vram available and I am inclined to believe it is only utilizing that based on the occasional stuttering I get from draw calls while turning etc

Problem is I have a 6700xt with 12gb of vram available, and every other tool/monitoring software I can think of reports the full 12gb of vram with only about ~1gb (10gb total) in use by other various apps on my machine

https://imgur.com/a/H1boMYc

The official support for CS was pretty stumped by this and the only answer I got was that the remaining ~2gb was reserved by some phantom process holding onto the vram and not reporting it in any way which I am extremely doubtful of, but maybe someone can clarify if/how that could be possible

I am not even sure what I can do to begin troubleshooting this but so far ive ensured my drivers are up to date, tried different versions of the shader mod, tried dxvk all of which had no impact. Though interestingly I have noticed less draw call stuttering on vulkan, could be placebo though.

Any thoughts?

 

[AwAurora]

https://imgur.com/ZHAPEzO

Overall app vram usage incase its at all helpful

 

[RUSerious]

https://imgur.com/ZHAPEzO

Overall app vram usage incase its at all helpful

That's system ram, not vram. The only way I've been able to avoid running out of VRAM (same 12GB limit), is by reducing graphics settings in game. Only some settings affect VRAM use, texture size is probably the most important.

 

[AwAurora]

That's system ram, not vram. The only way I've been able to avoid running out of VRAM (same 12GB limit), is by reducing graphics settings in game. Only some settings affect VRAM use, texture size is probably the most important.

While that list does show system memory, I posted it sorted by the column "dedicated GPU memory" which is vram and what matters in the screenshot. ty

 

[RUSerious]

While that list does show system memory, I posted it sorted by the column "dedicated GPU memory" which is vram and what matters in the screenshot. ty

Okay, my bad. Maybe I need new reading glasses 🙄