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Can you provide more info? I am assuming you mean Video RAM and not Virtual Memory, right? My GTX 1080 has 8 GB of Video RAM, so it seems odd that it'd be a limitation/problem. Do you know of anyway to address it?
Correct, video memory. This message appears when the total size of all loaded textures exceeds the capacity of your graphics card's memory.
Reduce texture quality to 0. This will lower the total size (in MB) of the loaded textures and free up VRAM.
EDIT: This explanation makes no sense if you have an 8GB card though. At which point I would just point the finger at the 32-bit TERA process and its 4GB memory limit (2GB if you're running a 32-bit OS as well). Another potential problem could be lack of hard drive space for the Windows pagefile.
The solution is still the same though, reduce texture quality.
Perhaps also try setting "Real-time optimization" to 3 so it does not automatically reduce quality.
I think its a bug in the game because I use MSI afterburner/rivatuner overlay all the time and never see my ram usage go over 1gb-1.5gb for tera. The message likes to appear in really laggy areas like Highwatch. It says its lowering the details or whatever but visually it looks the same so its like it thinks it lowered the details but really it didn't.... and the fact the game is stupid enough to think my gpu is too weak it has to lower the details is so funny since it rarely hits above 50% gpu usage. I can even run this game at 4k and still have about 10-25% gpu usage free, even though my main resolution i stick with is 2560x1080.
If your just getting this message and the games not crashing, its probably nothing to worry about because i've been seeing it for years. It seems the more advanced and powerful your hardware becomes the more strange tera bugs that can happen. Almost seems like the game never thought video cards would have over 2gb of vram.
Yeah. I've noted that. >.<
As for vram, it doesn't matter much if you have 366GB on your system... Well, it des matter but, for textures and stuff, what matters most if vram. Now, cards like a 1080 should have well above the vram Tera needs to work properly. I have played this game without issues on a GTX 460M (as in, laptop), with only 1.5GB VRAM. I didn't play with maxed textures though, (nor maxed anything because of derp) but the game was playable while not looking like WoW 1.0. On my desktop PC (RIP after hurricane) I had only 2GB VRAM from a GTX 680. Never had a constant crashing issue. In that rig I used max textures, though.
So TL:DR if you have something like a 1080, you SHOULDN'T have vram problems unless something is causing a leak.
thats bs though, i have a gtx 1080 with 8gb of VRAM and i get thats messeage all day everyday.
You're right, that makes no sense. Blame the 32-bit TERA process. But for whatever reason, the game is deciding that the texture resolution is too high.
I wonder if this might relate to the game resolution. I play in 1440p and I saw Liverneck said they play in Ultra-Wide. Perhaps the texture resolution bugs out when played in higher than 1080p?
If your PC can run Battlefield 1, or any other game that looks 100x bettre than tera, on max settings with frames staying 60 ~ 140 and never crashing due to "insufficient memory", I'm 100% sure it's TERA's [filtered] optimization and not my pc. Your comment is ignorant, get out of here kid
While his comment may have rubbed you the wrong way, there's some truth to it. I mean, why then can I play Tera without crashes, on three different computers, all much lesser in power than yours? By your logic I should be having far more issues.
Windows 7 (then updated to 10 1703) Asus G73SW laptop with GTX 460M 1.5 GB Vram 8GB Main ram. No crashes. No freezing. Hours of gameplay sessions.
Windows 7 (also updated later to 10 1703 because of free) Self built desktop with GTX 680 2GB Vram, 16gb main ram. No crashes. No freezing. Hours of gameplay sessions too.
Windows 10 1703 Asus Strix GTX 1060 3GB Vram laptop with 16gb main ram. Also, no crashes. No freez.... you know the drill..
So no. It's not just Tera, but may also not be directly your computer (or at least not the parts you believe are involved in playing games). Thing is, there are so many hardware and software configurations for PCs out there, that your issue could be coming from the least expected thing. And so long as the computer is near or above system specs, it should be qualified to run the game, so extra power is not relevant if something else is causing the crashes. It's up to you to do your homework and investigate. Could be some obscure driver causing the issue for no other reason than just being there and coupled with that other software thing on the side, or something with your OS version.
It would be nice if rather than redoing the gear system again or reworking all of the classes again, they could just take some time to optimize their game better.