I am playing the Epic Games Store version of Train Sim World 2. One part of the game (video attached) always crashes either saying "out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource" or an Unreal Engine crash report. I am playing on Intel Iris Xe graphics (Core i7 1165G7) with 16 GB RAM. The video memory would always be nearly maxed out regardless of what graphics settings I use. I believe the RAM configuration I have is enough to run this game as per the requirements listed. Even when playing at the lowest possible settings (640x480, low graphics) it still uses high amounts of RAM and I find it hard to believe it needs this much. Here is a recording of the game crashing, every single time at this point it will crash, regardless of graphics settings. Here's an example of the RAM usage with the lowest settings:
This graphic card (actually it's no card but integrated in the cpu) has no own VRAM but shares the RAM with your system. You have 16 GB RAM, 8 GB are used by TSW2 already, 8 GB are reserved for the GFX. No headroom. Try to lower the reserved RAM for your GFX via BIOS/UEFI to 4 GB and try again if the game performons bette rnow.
I don't think I can do that in my BIOS. But setting the graphics settings to the lowest resolution possible surely can't use this amount of video memory can it?
Not sure what advice is gonna help here beyond "if you plan on gaming, only buy laptops with discrete graphics cards" - maybe pop in another 16GB?
I haven't bought this laptop with the intent of gaming other than the free Epic Store games. All the other games I play on it run fine except for this one (it plays most of the time, but some parts of it will max out the memory). If I were to buy this game I would have bought it on PS4. My laptop has soldered RAM though it has Thunderbolt 4 ports where I can attach an eGPU to it.
YEOWCH. I don't know how I'd ever have gotten by the last 20 years with the expense of having to replace laptops twice as often because of gradually increasing memory requirements, or not being able to replace SODIMMs that fail.
I do however totally get going for a cheaper option, there are after all only three main types of people who need the thread counts and memory clout of proper gaming laptops. Artists, Software Engineers, and lastly hardcore Gamers. It's just usually, for reasons such as this, a good idea when going for something that meets your basic work requirements now, to pick an option with a good bit of room for upgrading it, as it saves you far more in the long run.
It's actually a fault with the graphics driver. After installing the latest Intel generic driver the memory usage has significantly dropped. The problem is with the OEM driver I normally use. With latest Intel generic driver: With OEM driver:
