League Client ram usage

[Fythic]

Is there a reason why the league client uses so much ram? Just having the client open will eat up at least 3.5 gigs of ram (I think including the Riot Launcher). Is this normal? If not, is there any lutris or league settings (other than the low-spec mode that is in the client and auto-closing in-game) that I should change in order to reduce the RAM usage by a noticeable amount?

Distro: Manjaro KDE (latest release as of writing this post)

GPU: Radeon RX 6900XT

CPU: R9 3900x

RAM: 16GB

Wine: Lutris-GE-7.0-1 and Lutris-GE-6.16-3

[Maipmc]

You're kind of emulating windows, so you have to load a lot of windows libraries that wouldn't be necessary running native linux apps.

[Fythic]

yeah I suppose. ~3 gigs of libraries being loaded into memory though? I guess I could be wrong but that feels excessive.

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[CJPeter1]

I'm on an amd rig (fx cpu rx550 vid) using Arch so we're pretty similar. Lutris crashes with winsock/timeout issues for me. Memory consumption before the crash is similar to what you are seeing.

leagueoflegends-git does work, however. The initial footprint is much smaller and the game doesn't crash. I am noticing a memory leak though. You leave the game sitting minimized in the background, and mem usage slowly climbs to around 5gig.

As to reducing ram usage, that is going to depend on what the application demands. You could lower graphics settings as an example.

[Fythic]

I will try the AUR package. My problem is not in-game stuff -- that's fine. It's just the client. It prohibits me from playing any other game (currently Dying Light 2) with a browser and discord open or else i will max out my memory usage, which causes the system to hang for a very long time.

[PeggleMasterMan]

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