The Xbox Series S seems to be facing serious memory allocation issues. Borderlands 3at least according to Reddit user u/jokekiller94 — who posted a screenshot of the game crashing on a Series S console with an “out of memory” error on the screen.
This issue is not limited to the original poster. Reddit user u/bacon_sammer responded in a thread and said he has the same issue of frequent Borderlands 3 crashes on Xbox Series S. They said the game works fine on Xbox Series X. However, that seems to be an issue with the Series S.
Unfortunately, this kind of memory allocation problem is not uncommon on Microsoft’s tiny consoles. According to a report from digital foundry and The Barge, the small memory capacity of the Series S is a headache for developers to optimize. This is the console’s low graphics settings, the single biggest factor in the lack of ray tracing effects on the Series S port, and bottlenecking the console’s already weak 4 teraflops (PS4 Pro level) GPU.
Apparently, developer frustration about the Series S’s memory has gotten so extreme that Microsoft released a dev kit in June 2022 that allows developers to further manipulate the Series S’s memory system.
The Xbox Series S is Microsoft’s latest entry-level console powered by AMD’s latest Zen 2 and RDNA 2 architectures. The console features a 4TF AMD RDNA 2 GPU with 20 compute units running at 1550MHz, a 512GB NVMe SSD, and 10GB GDDR6 memory shared between CPU and GPU. Oddly enough, the memory bandwidth is mixed, with the 8GB having 224GB/s bandwidth and the other 2GB running at just 56GB/s.
The reason why the Series S’s memory allocation problem is so problematic is because it has 10GB of memory. Modern PC titles usually recommend at least 16 GB of system RAM, plus at least 6 GB to 8 GB of his VRAM when playing the game on high settings. The Series S’s unified memory system reduces memory requirements for games compared to a PC, but 10GB is still a pretty low number for modern games (the unconventional bandwidth of only 8GB running fast). not to mention configuration).
Thankfully, memory allocation errors don’t seem to be a widespread problem. borderlands 3 The developer plans to fix this issue in a future patch. But considering the Xbox Series S’s past and current memory capacity issues, the overall longevity doesn’t seem very good.
