Im getting a video memory error with a RTX 3060 Ti

Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running. Exiting…

that’s the error im getting I have an RTX 3060Ti, 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-12600K, 3700 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s), and 32 GB of ram…

now I never used to get this error until I updated to unreal engine 5.2 any ideas?

Shader model 6 uses a lot of space compared to 5.

If you’re one of those people who fills very large levels with many materials ( hence textures ), and grass and trees and… And you were already using a healthy amount of VRAM, I think moving to SM6 would push you over.

It’s no good, can’t find anything that really nails it. All I know, is the DX12/SM6 switch had a major effect on shader instructions and complexity, and I’m assuming that is getting translated to VRAM.

Perhaps this

so any ideas on what i can do to fix this? im trying to add water to my level with the water plugin and getting that error ?

To be clear, you have an empty level, and you can’t put water in it?

well i have a terrain 9,181 x 9,181 and cannot add water cuz its giving me that error

before I was able to do a 14k x 14k map and add water without any error

You had 5.1 before?

yessir

Then I don’t know. I assume it’s not what I was talking about earlier, you would have had it with 5.1

I noticed there were a lot of landscape updates in the 5.2 release notes. I guess it’s possible one fix introduced another error. But that’s just guessing…

Possibly, guess ill have to downgrade to 5.1 and see if the error persists

Didn’t work. Still getting the same error. I don’t understand how I went from being able to upload a 14k by 14k map with water to not being able to upload anything but a 9k by 9k map with no water or else I crash and get that error I tell you one thing it’s irritating my soul LOL

Weird. It used to work?

What is different? Is anything different?

Yep it used to work only thing different is I reinstalled windows and the engine after that I start getting the error

Ah…

Two things I’m thinking:

  1. Windows is not totally patched

  2. There’s a project option in the engine you forgot to set?