element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Extremely high VRAM usage

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A-Electron A-Performance O-Occasional S-Minor T-Defect
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. Just normally using the application, but it has been up since July 25th, today is the 2nd of August.
2. Nothing specific, just noticed while doing LLM work that I was all the sudden out of VRAM, so I checked nvidia-smi and found that /proc/self/exe was using 1292MiB of VRAM. When checking out what process it really was with ps, it was this: `tyler 20913 0.5 0.1 34352896 62352 ? Sl Jul25 72:38 /proc/self/exe --type=gpu-process --disable-gpu-sandbox --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-crash-reporter=1653fbc6-c770-4188-9d55-d890ad8e190d,no_channel --user-data-dir=/home/tyler/.var/app/im.riot.Riot/config/Riot --gpu-preferences=UAAAAAAAAAAgAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --shared-files --field-trial-handle=3,i,3080885077030424039,5179729390839420326,262144 --enable-features=PdfUseShowSaveFilePicker,WaylandWindowDecorations,WebRTCPipeWireCapturer --disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling,MediaSessionService,SpareRendererForSitePerProcess --variations-seed-version`

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?
Obviously a instant messaging app to use this much vram.

### Operating system

Ubuntu 25.04

### Application version

Element version: 1.11.106 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.12.0 (b30f1f3), Vodozemac 0.9.0

### How did you install the app?

Flatpak im.riot.Riot

### Homeserver

_No response_

### Will you send logs?

Yes

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