Massive bug in Epic Games Launcher VRAM Usage

SGGhostRider
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:50:14 +0000
Feedback & Requests

It has been a month since i noticed it and i can’t believe nobody have reported it yet, since a month or so(it might be more) the epic games launcher started using 4Gb of VRAM after launch, NOT system RAM, VIDEO RAM, GPU RAM, whatever you want to call it, the dedicated memory storage for the graphics card.

I have tested it on my Tower pc, an old laptop and my new laptop and also a completely fresh install of windows with just drivers and the Launcher, ALL present the same issue, after opening the launcher it just starts eating the VRAM, and does not even respect the iGPU vs dGPU priorities, all my other programs go to the iGPU shared memory, but the Epic Games Launcher goes DIRECTLY to dGPU VRAM, it goes from 0 to 4Gb by ONLY opening the launcher.

After some investigations and tests i have discovered that it happens on logged in accounts, if i SignOut it frees most of the VRAM(still uses around 300-500Mb of VRAM just in the login screen), and if i login again it starts to eat the VRAM for breakfast again…

Task Manager “Details” tab after fully loaded Launcher

Task Manager “GPU” tab after fully loaded Launcher

After Signing Out with Launcher open but at the Login Screen

After Logging in again

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