Clears up unused assets after raid start timer finishes
Have you ever wanted to play SPT at 12k resolution but your VRAM keeps maxing out?
Well, now you can! No not really, but this mod should help clear up about 1-2GB of VRAM. There will be a small lag spike right after the start raid countdown finishes, this only happens once at the start of each raid.
If it isn’t obvious, this is different than - Ram Cleaner Fix - No they will not conflict, you should be able to run both without issue. My mod unloads unused assets such as textures, meshes, and audio and as a result, clears up a chunk of VRAM. Ram cleaner fix runs BSG’s code to “clean” RAM (not VRAM) on an interval, in reality what BSG’s code does is actually just allocate the RAM to your paging file.
After testing, I haven’t noticed any negative side effects from this, I also can’t confirm if it’ll cause issues for other mods that load any assets like textures/models. If anyone does notice any negative side effects let me know what it breaks and I’ll add a list here for what it’s not compatible with. It should definitely work with base SPT and other just general non-asset related mods.
I’ve made this mainly for the SPT VR mod I’m working on because VRAM usage can get pretty insane on there, figured it’d be better as a mod on its own though because I tested it on flat screen and found it clears up a good amount of VRAM even on there. Check out SPTVR - SPT-VR
Warning:
I’ve heard from 2 testers of the sptvr mod that after installing this, they got an issue where their gun would shoot once then stop firing. I personally haven’t been able to reproduce this and I’m also unsure if it’s a mix of using it with sptvr or if it’s just an issue with this mod in general. If anyone does notice this happening on flatscreen too, please let me know.
Compatibility:
This may have compatibility issues with the declutter mod
Install instructions:
- Move Bepinex folder into your SPT folder
- Don’t install onto a fika headless client
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Hotfix:
- Added a check to see if the cleaner ran at the start of the raid and avoid any calls to run it again during raid (this is just for compatibility sake with other mods if there’s any UI mods that call EFT.UI.PreloaderUI.ShowRaidStartInfo regularly)
Also, just want to explain something about this. I know someone in the comments mentioned that EFT allocates VRAM so this mod could functionally be doing nothing. I’m not so sure about that though, something weird is going on. When you use the fps 3 command to view VRAM usage, you’ll notice, none of the VRAM usage numbers in there change with this mod installed vs not installed. Despite that, VRAM usage still shows a considerable drop in windows task manager. I have no idea what’s going on here but it doesn’t seem to break anything so it could be BSG not handling VRAM allocation right or something weird is going on with the fps 3 command monitor.
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Hotfix:
- Much cleaner initiating of the cleaner, I noticed it didn’t always work with Fika because the countdown timer doesn’t always reach 0 when you run a headless client. No more delay involved, found a different method to connect it to and it’ll happen as soon as the raid start countdown finishes
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Just to give an idea on how this can help, if you’re like me and you were ripped off by Nvidia with their low VRAM graphics card models like the 3080 10GB model… This can help quite a bit with avoiding VRAM maxing out and reducing VRAM induced stutters.
It is especially helpful in the SPTVR mod I am also working on. In flatscreen tarkov I usually get around 8GB VRAM usage, using this reduces it down to 6-7. In SPTVR I end up capping it out often at 9.7GB and it starts spilling over to RAM causing stutters and just overall bad performance. With this mod, it goes from 9.7GB to 7-8GB.
I have no idea what it’s clearing out and I also have no idea why this is NEVER ran in BSG’s code took a closer look and it looks like BSG does run it occasionally but it seems like only after a raid. From what I can tell when searching about the method I’m running in here, it is common practice in Unity games to run this when loading new scenes.
is no options in f12 menu ?
i have a 3070 and tarkov was maxing my vram every raid
this mod saved me and i have way better fps now, thank you so much
Thanks for this mod, I want to test if it save the nvlddmkm.sys crashing bug for 50xx gpu.
gread work. It frees up 1GB to 3GB of my graphics card memory.
is it possible that this mod can increase power usage? i was having a problem where my circuit would trip and it only stopped when i deleted this mod. To be clear this wouldn’t be the mods fault, more that I’m playing on a 3050 laptop w/ 4gb vram in case any others encounter tripped circuits and cant work out why.
edit: i was having a separate issue where my game would freeze mid raid and seemed to be a vram max out issue and this mod definitely helped stop that so it works, just in my case for some reason the power would trip the circuit
Your mod definitely works. Im hosting a FIKA server for me and 3 friends and your mod was the only way to getting off my stutters. I use a 3070TI and a 7800X3D with 32GB ram.
so thx for your mod. literally game changer.
v1.0.1 didnt get flagged as malware but 1.0.2 did whats up with that?
Does garbage collector actually clear VRAM?
I’m experiencing screen freezing with LS Frame Generation due to VRAM exhaustion and was hoping this mod would remedy this, but it didn’t help much unfortunately.
Also would be nice to have an option to limit video memory allocation and leave some headroom, kinda like how recent COD games have a memory target (85%, 90%, 95%). Not sure where to even begin with about making such a mod.
Hello, I come with a problem that when I installed the spt mod (I also use the fika mod), when I play it freezes, when I’m in a raid it freezes all the time, I repeat it and it wasn’t like that before that it freezes, I have a weak computer but it wasn’t like that if I didn’t install spt fika, what should I do in such a situation? 😕