Need to clear vram before I play a game

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I’ve switched over to Fedora and I absolutely love it. But I have one issue I haven’t been able to solve. Before I play a game I have to clear my vram by either rebooting or by resetting gnome with this command: sudo systemctl restart display-manager.

I have a AMD desktop with a 9800x3d and a Radeon 6800xt. I’m using Fedora Workstation 44.

If I start a game like Gray Zone Warfare it will be stuck at 33fps. I then have to exit the game and run that command and then the FPS jumps to about 130fps. I went to play The Witcher Wild Hunt yesterday and it wouldn’t even start until I cleared the vram.

Of course running that command logs me out and was just wondering if there is another fix for this?

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Hello,
I firstly want to figure out what is hoarding your VRAM.
So please answer these questions

  1. Which desktop session are you running? (like Wayland or X11)
  2. Install nvtop via sudo dnf install nvtop
    Before opening the game please run nvtop and send me a screenshot of it.