With my current settings it never went over 5.4/6.8. When i fly into the new T.E. region from So.Cal to TE N/Cal to KSFO from KCRQ,  it slowly increases until im on final  to KSFO and i get the dreaded devise Hung error and my Vram goes to 6.4. Does TE use that much more Vram?

 

Thanks

Sure, why wouldn't it? You could try upgrading to W10 2004 and get a bit more VRAM space for V5. Or lower your textures to 1024 and/or turn off EA if you aren't doing those things already.

You have to compensate with an 8 GB GPU.

There are so many objects in TE, plus the ground photo scenery already loading up the GPU.
Adding EA, shadows, AI aircraft, external weather is going to be demanding on VRAM use. And that's before including the complex user aircraft and any payware airport scenery with higher resolution textures.

To get this (QW787 into AS EGLL over TE GB London):


I had to do this:

I have 11 GM VRAM and use Win10 2004, thus there's ~10GB left for usage. VRAM use of NCA on Prepar3d5 is certainly high. Depending on situation it's around 8 but can become 9 GB. I once even had a  DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE-HUNG CTD (i.e. VRAM; exhausted). This was when I looked left and next right an then straight again using the Coolie hat which typically adds ~0.4GB.

To be fair, this is with extremely ("too") high settings (but still acceptable performance), There's enought headroom for lower settings on my system: Texture resolution (4096), LOD (maxed), Autogen distance (maxed, has a high influence), compressed textures... so I wouldn't call it unusable on my system.

Kind regards, Michael

14 hours ago, Chapstick said:

Sure, why wouldn't it? You could try upgrading to W10 2004 and get a bit more VRAM space for V5. Or lower your textures to 1024 and/or turn off EA if you aren't doing those things already.

Dropped my settings to 1024, Dont use EA. Thats has definitely helped. Took a flight today all around the bay area and the highest it got was 5.5/6.6. I honestly could not tell the difference between the 1024 and the higher setting i had it at.

 

Thanks for the advise

You need to adjust the level of detail radius down to no more than High. Sucks but true 

The windows 10 2020 update became available to me yesterday so after updating, I did another flight as before with no setting changes and went from  5.5 / 6.6 max reading during flight around bay area N/Cal T.E. to 5.1 / 7.1 max reading flying the same scenario. Big improvement! Only changes made were going from Ultra to 1024 which gave me the 5.5/6.6 max with no "Hung" error flying around the bay area and into KSFO. Now the max is 5.1/7.1 and no issues so far......

 

 

On 6/15/2020 at 4:42 PM, pmb said:

I have 11 GM VRAM and use Win10 2004, thus there's ~10GB left for usage. VRAM use of NCA on Prepar3d5 is certainly high. Depending on situation it's around 8 but can become 9 GB. I once even had a  DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE-HUNG CTD (i.e. VRAM; exhausted). This was when I looked left and next right an then straight again using the Coolie hat which typically adds ~0.4GB.

To be fair, this is with extremely ("too") high settings (but still acceptable performance), There's enought headroom for lower settings on my system: Texture resolution (4096), LOD (maxed), Autogen distance (maxed, has a high influence), compressed textures... so I wouldn't call it unusable on my system.

Kind regards, Michael

It really is time for affordable 12 - 16 Gb graphics cards...

Only a few years ago I bought a new Titan for € 1299,- ...

Sadly due to pandemic and low resources in stock in some countries, the prices of some computer devices are dramatic increasing. 😞

Change your AA setting a from 8xmsaa to 2xssaa and save yourself almost a 1gb of vram.

 

mike