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Question by DaveA · Nov 03, 2011 at 03:10 AM · texturegraphicsmemorygpucard

How can I tell how much grahics memory is available?

My app loads textures at run-time via a WWW object. If I load too many, it will crash, and the log file will tell me that it died because it ran out of texture memory.

How can I tell how much texture memory is available, so I can fail gracefully (tell user to stop loading textures) rather than crashing?

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Answer by CHPedersen · Nov 03, 2011 at 07:47 AM

I don't know of a way to ask the graphics card exactly how much memory it has available at a time, but this page presents some system information that might be of use anyhow:

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/SystemInfo.html

In particular the graphics memory size. Instead of asking the graphics card how much it has left, would it be possible to tally up the size of the textures as they are loaded and keep track of how much you've spent, and then stop when you are approximately full?

Does the WWW object return a header that lets you know the size of a texture about to be loaded?

Update after more searching:

Okay, I'm pretty confident you can't get the actual, total remaining figure. I'm basing my conclusion on this forum post, where someone asked if there was a way they could get at the data displayed in the Editor's stats window. Aras answered that you can, but only in an undocumented editor class, and this was in 2008, so...err... I think you're out of luck. :(

Even the editor stats window displays guesstimate figures; there are two numbers, and the VRAM usage is supposed to be something in between? If they can't even get this number for the editor, I seriously doubt we'll be able to access it in scripts.

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Thanks, this might work. I imagine I could calculate the per-texture usage, at least a ball-park figure.

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Did some more searching and updated the answer...

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Thanks. Actually a ball-park, within a few megabytes, would be ok.

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