Critical: Major VRAM memory leak/performance degradation after 1–3 matches
This seems to have been reported in the past but remains unadressed in the recent patch notes and the sections concerning future investigations.
This is very concerning as there is a clear problem experienced by many PC players which makes it so the game must be restarted (closed and started again) after playing just a few matches as the performance degrades so significantly as to make the game almost unplayable.
What's observed:
1) Start the game and join a match. Then join another match.
Notice FPS count go down as much as 80 frames (120 -> 38). It feels unstable at it too.
2) Go to Settings - > Graphics
Notice that Video Memory is filled and over the limit of the graphics card
3) quit the game / close the application
4) start the game again, play a new match -> notice the performance is optimal again
Reproducibility: 100% every play session
Screenshots attached: video memory at a start + after playing a match
Request: Can we please have the team look into this and acknowledge the issue?
Context:
- this problem did not exist in Beta
- I'm on updated drivers and this happened across all version since the game's release
- No apps running in the background
PC Config:
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.5.420
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 581.80 - Tue Nov 4, 2025
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz
RAM: 48.0 GB
Storage (2): SSD - 1.8 TB,SSD - 953.9 GB
Graphics card
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 8704
Graphics clock: 1740 MHz
Resizable BAR: No
Memory data rate: 19.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 320-bit
Memory bandwidth: 760.08 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 34764 MB
System video memory: N/A
Shared system memory: 24524 MB
Dedicated video memory: 10240 MB GDDR6X
Video BIOS version: 94.02.71.40.6c
Device ID: 10DE 2216 38961462
Part number: G132 0031
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen4
Display (1): Dell S2716DG
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (recommended)
Refresh rate: 144 Hz
Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: G-SYNC
HDCP: Supported
