Open stellarhopper opened 4 years ago
This seems surprising for it to be happening on a 4GB GPU since we should be using < 2GB. Can you run with -con_logfile when this happens and upload game/dota/console.log? Also, can you have nvidia-smi running and see how much GPU memory is consumed overall on the system? I'm thinking it may be something else on your machine using up GPU memory causing us to start evicting textures to try to make up for it.
@danginsburg I tried to reproduce this in a quick bot game but wasn't able to. I did notice that even before starting the game, I was using over 2G of the available 4G GPU memory:
Thu Nov 7 10:45:38 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 435.21 Driver Version: 435.21 CUDA Version: 10.1 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 980 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 5% 60C P0 46W / 185W | 2186MiB / 4043MiB | 5% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1599 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 72MiB |
| 0 1748 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 49MiB |
| 0 2168 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 784MiB |
| 0 2296 G gnome-shell 417MiB |
| 0 2781 G /usr/bin/nextcloud 2MiB |
| 0 3870 G ...quest-channel-token=9562361383393835526 8MiB |
| 0 7808 G ...uest-channel-token=11486817017048631444 37MiB |
| 0 10768 G ...t_PrusaSZfm4ou/usr/bin/bin/prusa-slicer 100MiB |
| 0 15395 G ./Simplify3D 67MiB |
| 0 17317 G ...er/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 31MiB |
| 0 17346 G ./steamwebhelper 2MiB |
| 0 17361 G ...quest-channel-token=3910522723913327640 142MiB |
| 0 23757 G openscad 66MiB |
| 0 31617 G ...quest-channel-token=8220175961307235026 353MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
During my test game, Underlords never rose to above 1325M or so (maxed out all graphics settings):
Thu Nov 7 12:04:17 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 435.21 Driver Version: 435.21 CUDA Version: 10.1 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 980 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 40% 73C P0 79W / 185W | 3658MiB / 4043MiB | 12% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1599 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 72MiB |
| 0 1748 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 49MiB |
| 0 2168 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 920MiB |
| 0 2296 G gnome-shell 441MiB |
| 0 2781 G /usr/bin/nextcloud 2MiB |
| 0 3870 G ...quest-channel-token=9562361383393835526 8MiB |
| 0 4220 C+G ...ords/game/bin/linuxsteamrt64/underlords 1325MiB |
| 0 7808 G ...uest-channel-token=11486817017048631444 41MiB |
| 0 10768 G ...t_PrusaSZfm4ou/usr/bin/bin/prusa-slicer 100MiB |
| 0 15395 G ./Simplify3D 67MiB |
| 0 17317 G ...er/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 31MiB |
| 0 17346 G ./steamwebhelper 2MiB |
| 0 17361 G ...quest-channel-token=3910522723913327640 151MiB |
| 0 23757 G openscad 66MiB |
| 0 31617 G ...quest-channel-token=8220175961307235026 319MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
So it seems reasonable that if the 2G limit was approached, or if I had say other chrome tabs or something using up some more space, that I would hit the 4G mark.
I'll keep an eye on things, and if it happens again I'll report back. We can otherwise close this issue for now. Thanks for the pointer on nvidia-smi, that looks like a useful tool!
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) in a gist: https://gist.github.com/stellarhopper/341bd08f8389a2b24ff773b62ce7be01Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
This is similar to #27, the symptoms are exactly the same as the youtube clip linked there. This would happen infrequently before the Big Update, but has been much more consistent since then.
Dropping the video settings way down seems to temporarily fix it, but slowly turning things on didn't find an immediate culprit.
The video card is an Nvidia GTX 980.
Steps for reproducing this issue: