Valve Contractor Just Made Gaming On 8 GB GPUs Viable Again

A Valve contractor working on AMD’s RADV Vulkan driver has proposed a new VRAM management approach for Linux gaming.

The fix uses cgroups and the dmem controller to better protect game memory from being evicted by background apps.

In testing with Cyberpunk 2077, the patches reduced VRAM pressure and kept the game out of slower system memory.

The result could mean smoother play on 8 GB and lower-VRAM GPUs without needing new hardware.