Bug: Installing without Davincibox fixed "Your GPU memory is full" error, no image on playback, stuttering timeline

[azacio]

This issue is NOT about missing codecs

• I understand

Describe the bug

Tl;dr: On my Bluefin box, Resolve Studio did not work properly when installed with Davincibox. Installing outside of a container fixed everything.

Holy hell...

I've been on such a quest to fix these issues I've had with Resolve Studio installed using Davincibox. I've posted on the Nvidia driver forums, the Nvidia open driver Github (NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#1035), and on the Bluefin Github (ublue-os/bluefin#4126) and (ublue-os/bluefin#4223). But now, finally, I found the most simple "Well, duh!" solution!

The original issues were that on any Bluefin (stable Nvidia) image past 20260120, Resolve would throw a "Your GPU memory is full" error in any project with clips on the timeline. Additionally, no image would display in neither the source nor program monitor, and timeline playback would stutter at around 7fps.

I really wanted to run Resolve in a container (seems to be the "Bluefin way" heh), but then remembered that I had a Resolve install script that just installs it to /opt/resolve. So, I tried that, running Resolve "directly" on the host system, OUTSIDE of a container.

Lo and behold, it worked! All the problems have gone away on the latest Bluefin image, just as if I were still using that older 20260120 image.

As far as I can tell, three things that may affect Resolve changed between that older image and the most recent one (20260217.1 at the time of writing):

Nvidia driver 590.48.01-1 ➡️ 590.48.01-3
libnvidia-container-tools 1.18.1-1 ➡️ 1.18.2-1
Kernel 6.17.11-300 ➡️ 6.17.12-300

Perhaps something else changed that also affects this? I'm not sure. Needless to say, something is up with Davincibox. Maybe it just needs to be updated to Fedora 43, or maybe it's something else, too.

I'm just glad Resolve FINALLY works in the latest image, and I can get on with my work with the latest updates installed.

Credits roll.

Steps to reproduce

No response

Installation method used

Manual with Distrobox

OS Version

Bluefin 20260217.1

Desktop Environment

GNOME

GPU Vendor

NVIDIA

GPU Model

RTX 3060 Ti

CPU

Ryzen 7 5700X

CPU w/ integrated GPU?

No iGPU

DaVinci Resolve Free or DaVinci Resolve Studio

Studio

DaVinci Resolve version

20.3.2

Davincibox build (NOT the GitHub release number)

 3:	ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox-opencl          latest                1dbecbb87e50  2 months ago   2.68 GB      5:	ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox                 latest                8e3f1f8edce2  2 months ago   2.11 GB

Extra context

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[zelikos]

3: ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox-opencl latest 1dbecbb87e50 2 months ago 2.68 GB
5: ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox latest 8e3f1f8edce2 2 months ago 2.11 GB

NVIDIA GPUs are meant to be used with the davincibox image, not davincibox-opencl. Do you have the latter due to troubleshooting, or for another reason? Did this issue occur with both images?

Regardless, though, NVIDIA GPUs in davincibox have been a persistent issue since sometime last year, after either an NVIDIA driver update or an update to something else related, so I suspect the issue here is related to that one.

[azacio]

That davincibox-opencl image looks like a leftover from when I was testing an RX 9070 XT (which I returned, it didn't go well). The issues definitely occurred with the davincibox image. Besides, they weren't present when using the older Bluefin image.

[Jack-the-Pro101]

I am also having this issue on Aurora 43 (a Universal Blue distro) with a 12700H and 3070 Ti Laptop for DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.3.2 on the davincibox image.

At first, I thought it was using my iGPU, so I followed the duel GPU instructions sudo sed -i "s,switcherooctl launch,switcherooctl launch -g #," /usr/bin/run-davinci command. In DaVinci preferences, the only GPU listed and selected was the Nvidia GPU, so I thought I was set, however it made no difference and the "Your GPU memory is full" error persisted.

[dlasusa]

Also seeing this issue.

Specs:

aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable 
Aurora (Version: 43.20260303.1)
Linux 6.18.7-200.fc43.x86_64
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K (24) @ 5.40 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 / Driver Version: 590.48.01
DaVinci Resolve version 20.3.2
Current GPU memory usage: 2.3GB/12GB

@azacio - would be curious to hear more on how you installed to /opt/resolve Is there a way to point the installer (.run file) to a different location?

[azacio]

@azacio - would be curious to hear more on how you installed to /opt/resolve Is there a way to point the installer (.run file) to a different location?

Hey, I used a script called DaVinci Resolve Universal Installer. The author says he has "retired" the script because apparently it breaks for some people, but it still works fine for me on Bluefin. He also has some other install scripts dotted around his channel.

[Jack-the-Pro101]

I am also having this issue on Aurora 43 (a Universal Blue distro) with a 12700H and 3070 Ti Laptop for DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.3.2 on the davincibox image.

I manged to fix the issue for myself! I followed the manual installation instructions this time (compared to my previous post where I had ran the setup.sh file), with the only difference being instead of using --additional-flags "--device nvidia.com/gpu=all" for the creation of the distrobox, I simply put --nvidia. I am not sure if the former would've also worked, but yeah. Hopefully you guys are also able to get this resolved soon.

[tapanojum]

Was having the same "GPU memory full" issue with bluefin. Reinstalled the OS with regular Fedora 43, followed manual installation of davincibox and everything works perfectly. Thanks zelikos!