VRAM not reclaimed after switching airframes

[FoxTwo]

Sometimes in multiplayer I may select a few different aircraft for a different part of a mission. After the switching to the second or sometimes third aircraft, performance tanks and VRAM usage skyrockets (up to 20GB reported by the ctrl + pause overlay). According to MSI Afterburner, system RAM skyrockets to over 29GB consumed, the video card is pegged at 11GB, and the game slows to a crawl even menus don't open. CPU is running warm at 50-60% but not pegged on any single core.

 

It doesn't seem like the old textures/assets are being unloaded when you switch aircraft.

 

For reference I have a 1080ti with 11GB VRAM and 32GB of physical system RAM.

 

Here's a track of me hoping around different aircraft, by the time I make it to the JF-17 I have to go to task manager to kill the DCS task because the game becomes unresponsive. This is an extreme example, I've had it happen on my second aircraft.

Aerobatics Online Caucasus OpenBeta-20200128-184302.trk

Edited January 28, 2020 by FoxTwo

[BitMaster]

Mustang @ 104th says this has cured some of their problems. might give it a shot.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=262158