Memory leak when streaming in Discord leading to a crash

[indigo latch]

Seems like anytime I stream the game in a discord call, my GPU VRAM goes completely full, and it spills over into system memory until its 90% full in task manager (after like 1-2 mins) and then the game will crash.

Specs
9800x3D
RTX 3080 (latest driver)
32GB DDR5-6000

This is the only game where this happens. Furthermore if you look in task manager it will say that Balatro is only using ~400MB of RAM but the system memory keeps crawling upwards.

Also seems like I'm not the only one. None of the suggestions recommended by other people have worked. 😦

https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1hrilik/i_seem_to_be_getting_memory_leaks_both_ram_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1hs0sis/game_has_a_memory_leak_when_streaming_on_discord/
https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1gs7wkj/why_does_the_game_crash_when_i_stream/
https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1hpa52f/game_seems_to_hog_ram_until_it_crashes_any_ideas/

^ most of these posts are less than a month old. Let me know if theres anything else I can try

[fair drum]

Pretty sure ive got the same problem, my pc runs just fine on everything else and aswell on the game, but as soon as i show my friends the gameplay through discord, it suddenly starts lagging, loses frames and then eventually crashes.

Kinda silly that such a specific yet broad bug hasnt been fixed yet imo but okay🤷

Let me know if you find a fix for it!

[indigo latch]

Out of curiosity what resolution are you on?

[fair drum]

Ah, i cant check it right now but i think im on 1920x1080

[tired atlas]

i have the same problem

1920x1080

this wasnt a problem until i updated to windows 11 just today

[haughty cedar]

well garbage collection does not seem to be collecting the garbage

[oak jay]

I wonder if this also happens on phones. Sure hope not though.

[tired atlas]

not for me

i can screenshare the game no problem on my phone

[halcyon ridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/779287876877025282/1340954013012852788/image.png?ex=67b43c3e&is=67b2eabe&hm=619ade2edec2074f0d97475af5084a1d02951b24223ce561070b52bbecdb1ab4&

[fair drum]

btw a fix i found was if u just stream while in windowed mode then it doesnt leak

tbh im not even sure if they just fixed the bug or if thats a working workaround

[tired atlas]

its been a working workaround yeah

but i think the game feels bad in windowed

[tired atlas]

it also fixes itself when i turn off my secondary monitor

this problem also happened to me in slay the spire

so its not limited to balatro

[wheat grove]

I have a similar issue if not exactly the same. My game doesn’t crash though, my whole pc does. It doesn’t even bluescreen.

Play for 2-5 minutes, starts lagging, screens freeze, then audio, then screens go black and I have to manually restart my pc with the power button.

I’ve only had it in this game.