hello how do i change icon memory budget

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February 21, 2023
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[Resources List Model] Icons memory budget set to 100MB. how do I change icon memory.

Correct answer Cyril Dellenbach

Thanks for your message.

No need to open the console to set up a new value to your memory budget. Under your Preferences > General > Preview Options, you can set up the local cache budget.

The environment variable SUBSTANCE PAINTER VRAM BUDGET will change the allocated Vram to Substance 3D Painter, which doesn't seem like what you want.

Have a nice day,

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Robert2759881998cv

Participant

Necro'ing because in 2025 this is still an issue. No matter what the Local Cache Budget is set to in Preferences, the icon memory is still 100MB.

On an m.2 SSD drive that is blazing fast, my modest material library takes nearly 10 minutes to load every time I open Substance Painter.

What can be done about this? The environment variable SUBSTANCE _PAINTER_PREVIEWS_MEMORY_BUDGET did not raise this from 100MB.

Thank you!

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Evgeny24063732iwf7

Participant

It still doesn’t work — I just have gray icons with an arrow instead of materials.

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Evgeny24063732iwf7

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Cyril Dellenbach

Correct answer

Community Manager

Hello @Zoe26434621fivq,

Thanks for your message.

No need to open the console to set up a new value to your memory budget. Under your Preferences > General > Preview Options, you can set up the local cache budget.

The environment variable SUBSTANCE PAINTER VRAM BUDGET will change the allocated Vram to Substance 3D Painter, which doesn't seem like what you want.

Have a nice day,

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe

davescm

Community Expert

@Cyril Dellenbach My mistake on VRAM variable but that disk cache preference does not seem to adjust the icon memory budget reported in the log. Mine is set to 500 but the log reports icon memory set to 100MB

There is another Environment variable - SUBSTANCE_PAINTER_PREVIEWS_MEMORY_BUDGET but I'm not at my PC to try it right now.

Dave