Your GPU Memory is Full

I don;t know how am i suppose to learn this program when this messages appears and i must restart. I am new to resolve coming from Premier and After Effects and this is the most frustrating experience I've had compounded by the lack of any real solutions to this problem i am having. I look around and all i see are discussions and no real solutions.

Below are my specs, can someone here tell me how to avoid this issue, its really annoying

Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Company: NVIDIA
Video Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Adapter RAM: -1048576Bytes
Video Memory Type: Unknown
Adapter DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Inf File Name: oem46.inf (Section074)
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6611
Driver Date: 2021-04-11 8:00:00 PM
PNP Device ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_21C4&SUBSYS_40141458&REV_A1\4&4DD5766&0&00DC
Video Architecture: VGA
Resolution: 1920 * 1080 pixels
Current Number Of Colors: 4294967296
Valid Refresh Rate: 50 - 60 Hz
Current Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
Current Bits Per Pixel: 32 Bits
Availability: Running/Full Power

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
Description: Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
Architecture: x64
Version:
Number Of Cores: 4
Number Of Logical Processors: 8
Socket Type: Other
Processor Id: BFEBFBFF000906E9
Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Max Clock Speed: 4201 MHz
Current Clock Speed: 4201 MHz
External Clock: 100 MHz
L2 Cache Size: 1MB
L2 Cache Speed: MHz
L3 Cache Size: 8MB
L3 Cache Speed: 0 MHz
Address Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Socket Designation: U3E1
Power Management Supported: False
Current Voltage: 1.2 v
Load Percentage: 17%

[Peter Chamberlain]

moved to resolve forum

I am of the opinion that the memory issue is a long standing bug in Resolve with nVidia GPU's that will require a fix from BMD to actually solve once and for all.

Unfortunately, I've seen no evidence that BMD agrees with me on that.

this error message is not nvidia GPU specific!

That may be. But I've seen multiple reports from users that projects which throw up this error using nVidia cards work perfectly well using an AMD card with less VRAM.

So a bug in Resolve related to nVidia (or maybe specifically CUDA) may not be the only cause for the error, but I do believe it's one cause.

mo vram
less timeline resolution
less temporal ofx

i do not have issues with a lack of vram
i have 11 or 12g vram in my machines
most projects are DCi4k or UHD
w10 + nvidia

if you could find / afford a 12g 3060, it's not all that fast in 2021 (about as fast than a 1080Ti tho), but has enough vram to make that error go away unless one is running a huge timeline (answer = why?) or uses tonz-0-temporal effects (answer = node cache)

has enough vram to make that error go away

You would think so, but there are multiple reports of folks getting this error using an 11GB 3080 with timelines that shouldn't be causing such an error.

This is another reason I think it's a bug in Resolve relate to nVidia.

We get this bug simply by opening a bin with pngs in it. We are using the latest card (3080) and the driver recommended by BM, yet the bug happens fairly often. I am inclined to agree it is a Resolve problem.

I have an NVIDIA Quadro P4000 (8 Gb of RAM). This pops up failry frequently. Once memory went from 1Gb to 8 Gb just importing a 512 Kb png image. Resolve crashed and it was impossible to reopen the project, as the message appeared as soon as the project was open.

There are definitely issues in Resolve. My version is 17.1.1 build 9, free version.