Timeline for Blender eats up +8gb of storage on my C Drive when on material preview
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| Aug 24, 2023 at 16:52 | comment | added | Ectho | I believe my laptop has an integrated GPU, but I'm not sure. The project is taking up all of my RAM though. I've replaced some meshes with a seamless texture instead of a baked set, and that's reduced the amount of storage it takes. I'll probably do some more texture optimization to reduce this more. Now that I know what's causing this issue, I can plan around it for future scenes. Thanks for the help. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 20:49 | comment | added | Blunder | If you can't get more disk space & can't upgrade your PC's RAM or get a better graphic card then you need to reduce the texture size. Keep in mind that 2k textures require 4x more space as 1k textures because length and width are doubled. Use low-res textures for objects that is in the background or far away from camera. That's basically what game engines do to improve performance. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 20:43 | comment | added | Blunder | Has your computer a dedicated graphic card or an onboard/integrated GPU? While graphic cards have their on memory (VRAM) the onboard GPUs share the memory (RAM) with the CPU. The pagefile.sys is Window's swap file. It's used when programs require more memory than the PC has RAM. Then Windows begins to write the RAM content to the swap file. Check the RAM usage in the task manager. You can't tell from the size of the textures on disk how much memory you need, because the files are compressed while the data in memory is uncompressed. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 7:47 | comment | converted from answer | Hazrd | The Question Is Similar and has a possible Answer: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/112359/… | |
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| S Aug 22, 2023 at 7:40 | history | asked | Ectho | CC BY-SA 4.0 |