[Solved] GPU out of memory

[mossy tiger]

Hello guys, am trying to render a scene in cycles.. but it says GPU out of memory.. I have 4Gb Nvidia graphics card.. what’s the solution.. even when I reduce samples to 100.. it still doesn’t render

[zealous tusk]

samples wont change how much memory its using. its due to the number or objects/verts/textures etc.

try render CPU instead

or remove detail from your scene (decimate/remesh etc)

[runic pumice]

i just restart blender and render again, it works

or if i have anything in the viewport selected i deselect it and then render again

that works too for me

[mossy tiger]

CPU is not an option because it will take forever to render.. I will try remedy instead..

[mossy tiger]

Alright.. let me try

[quasi grail]

I had this issue, for some reason it went away after lowering the cache limit...

[restive vigil]

What blackout said, render with your CPU unless you want to spend hours optimizing your scene. From the looks of your screenshot, it doesn't even look like there's much to optimize.

[zealous tusk]

With a 4gb card I'm curious why it's getting stuck at 1138.5. I'd also try a system reboot in case something else is hogging it. For example if you've loaded an ai model into memory for image generation or upscaling

[merry mountain]

Change the tiling from auto to 1 and render with a small bucket size. Try smth like 64 and if you can go higher, do so because it'll speed up the rendering

[mossy tiger]

You all . Thanks a lot

[mossy tiger]

This worked just fine… Thanks a million

This can be marked as solved

[zealous tusk]

[Solved] GPU out of memory

[restive vigil]

oh yeah i've completely forgotten tiling saves memory

[merry mountain]

Yes sir. I was surprised that no one suggested it 👨‍💻

[sage condor]

@mossy tiger Make sure you're not in render view while rendering also if you're using textures I'd limit it to 1k textures at most. Also if you go to preferences you can turn on statistics at the bottom of your screen to stay aware of resource usage