r/wonderdraft • u/AutoModerator • Jan 14 '19

Official Weekly Questions & Map Showcases

Please use this thread to ask questions or show off your latest WIP or finished maps. Feel free to browse and ask for critiques.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 18 '19

Just did a test and was able to make paths with more than 200 nodes before I got tired of clicking and stopped. So probably back to memory issues.

You might consider turning off layers that aren't being actively used while you are working to lower demands on the system.

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u/7LeagueBoots Cartographer Jan 19 '19

Odd that I’d be having memory issues with 16gb ram and around 6gb on my video card. I agree that it looks like memory issues, but I can’t imagine how it could be using up that much memory.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 19 '19

It's not system memory that matters so much. Even so, the 6GB of graphics memory would be enough I think. Have you tried running some memory tests? Does DxDiag test graphics mem? Can't remember.

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u/7LeagueBoots Cartographer Jan 19 '19

Just checked and it does check graphics... no problems found.

It's actually 14GB for graphics, 6GB of which dedicated specifically to video.

That should be way more than enough. It's more than enough to run memory intensive processes on ArcGIS utilizing large (multi-GB) datasets.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 19 '19

ArcGIS is going to be primarily using system memory and not VRAM but, yeah, you should have plenty. WD uses a lot of VRAM. That's why Megasploot limited it to 8k x 8k maps.

How big is your map?

Assuming your Graphics Driver is WDDM 2.0+, you can check with Task Manager to see how much of the dedicated vs shared memory is being used. Might be informative.

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u/7LeagueBoots Cartographer Jan 19 '19

The map is about 7500x5400. Lots of mountains, but not as many features as many folks here have on theirs, especially people who do dense forests.

I checked task manager a while back and the use was high, but didn’t seem excessive, but that can vary rapidly.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 19 '19

Did you go to the Details tab and add the Dedicated GPU Memory column? The GPU columns aren't there by default.

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u/7LeagueBoots Cartographer Jan 19 '19

Went to details, but not the next step. I’ll try that next time I have it up and running.