War Thunder lowers my graphics settings and freezes the game by itself

Community Technical Support Crashes, Connection, Update Problems & Advice
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Hello,

Getting straight to the point: Since the update that introduced ray tracing to the game, I’ve been experiencing some frustrating behavior. Despite having (in my opinion) a pretty decent PC that easily handled WT’s requirements (everything maxed out) before the update, the game now sometimes freezes mid-match for several seconds, only to display a message in the corner saying, “Graphics settings have been lowered due to insufficient video memory.”

This is especially odd, as much more demanding games (e.g., Star Citizen, Cyberpunk 2077) run on the highest settings without any “choking” from the graphics card.

Additionally, whenever I try switching to DX12 to enable ray tracing, the game often shuts itself down without any error message. Does anyone have any ideas?

My setup:

  • Graphics: Inno3D GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER ICHILL X3 (16GB VRAM)
  • Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K
  • Motherboard: B360M Aorus Gaming 3
  • RAM: G.SKILL 32GB (2x16GB) 3000MHz CL16 Aegis

All drivers are up to date.

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That is a restart of the game to apply the new settings.

Maybe you need to deactivate raytracing without changing to DX12. Just tuen it of maybe your game will work better than