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Is running Resolve on 6gb vram possible? (self.davinciresolve)

submitted 7 months ago by TheCheddarCheese to c/davinciresolve

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My computer has a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 with 6gb vram, games run fairly well on it but Resolve seems to struggle a bit. It keeps telling me that the GPU memory is full and video doesn't display in the timeline at all. Is it possible to run the thing on it or should I just give up and move to something more lightweight?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Use software rendering?

[–] TheFonz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have the same card and have no issues (have had the card for a year). I suspect something else is going on.

[–] TheCheddarCheese 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Might be, do you use Windows?

[–] TheFonz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, windows 11 but before that win 10. Are you able to check your gpu in task man while you are running (you can see memory usage).

Are you by any chance doing a lot of compositing in fusion or just straight editing?

Edit: also which version of Resolve are you on?

[–] TheCheddarCheese 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Version 18.6

It jumps between that and 214mb. You're probably right in not being the hardware because the usage almost definitely didn't suddenly spike that high 2 seconds after the program opens. I'll try it on Windows and see if that works. Might also be me installing it from the AUR instad of the official release.

And no I'm not doing any intense editing, I just imported a video file. It's 29 gigabytes but again the memory usage was way lower than I expected.

[–] TheFonz 2 points 7 months ago

Ok. If you're working with 4k or 8k footage you probably want to start working with proxies instead of directly. It's very easy to set up in Resolve.

[–] TheCheddarCheese 1 points 7 months ago

In case someone finds this post somehow, I ended up using Lightworks instead and it works fine for now. Couldn't get Resolve working, on Linux at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I run Davinci Resolve on my surface laptop studio, which runs an RTX 3050 TI which as far as I'm aware only has 4 gigs of dedicated vram, and it runs just fine for me.