World of warcraft memory leak


Memory leak getting worse every patch!

Cannir-dalaran1

I can’t play more than 1/2 hour before the game has eaten up all 32 GB of RAM on my machine and crashes with an out of memory error. This leak has been around for over a year and continues to get worse with every patch.

Should we assume you are not looking at it and don’t care about fixing it?

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Zreicia-illidan2

I play all evening running multiple copies of wow at once. I’ve never encountered this. Sounds like you include an addon that’s leaking memory. Blizzard enabled the ability to see more information about your addons in the latest patch. Check it out.

Battlecruisr-kiljaeden3

Same, the only leak I’ve encountered in the past was the crafting memory leak, which actually appears to be fixed with 11.1

Cannir-dalaran4

Thanks for the info, but I don’t use addons.

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Spazem-stormrage6

This is a hardware or software issue on your end. Question for yah. how many sticks of ram do you have and what is the ram exactly?

Cannir-dalaran7

I include figured out how to easily get the game to apply up all my RAM:

There is a world quest near dornagal that requires you to slay a bunch of nerubians an

Wow.exe Memory Leak?- CPU Pegged 99%

#0 - Oct. 17, 2008, 11:05 a.m.

After installing the patch a few days ago on my machine and my wifes machine (Specs are below) we've started finding the machines running very slow when we try to minimize the game and watch something up on Thottbot.com etc.. A look at the task manager on each system under processes shows Wow.exe using 99% of the CPU. It shouldn't be necessary for the game to use that kind of CPU.

So we decided to install the patch on our newer gaming laptop which is a little more beefy and see how that went, identical thing. Wow.exe pegged the CPU at 100% while logged in walking around.

Before you even ask..

1. No I undertake not use add-ons.
2. Nothing else has been installed on these computers besides the patch.
3. Yes, pre patch they ran smooth as butter.


Testing the CPU from start to close..

- Launcher.exe - Was: 0% after load.
- Nothing wrong here.

- Wow.exe - Login Screen Was: 30 - 33% solid.
- Background AVI with proto dragon?

-Wow.exe - Logged In Was: 00 - 02%
-Looking at character list for realm.

- Wow.exe - Enter World Was: 93 - 99% solid
-No movement, just standing in Stormwind. Pegged.


My System



I've been playing World of Warcraft 3.3.5a with wine for a while, and yesterday, for the first time ever I got a crash message saying the program ran out of memory. I went and checked and other WoW processes were consuming up to 1100M of memory, for reference: WoW under windows hardly ever goes above 400M. I went ahead and made some tests
  1. 1. Before login, the process consumes about 170M in wine and 110M in windows
    2. On both systems it nearly doubles after login
    3. In wine, however, logging out and back on, or reloading the interface increases the memory usage by 5-10M every time
    4. There isn't any periodical drecrease on memory usage under wine (it somewhat fluctuates under windows)
I measured the resident memory under wine (as reported in number of pages in /proc/.../statm) every 0.5s and it was quite conclusive

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I've observed this leak in two computers, both running Arch with amd gpus, one with wine 2.0 and the other 1.9, similar results.
The tests under windows and wine ran with the equal wow settiings, namely low graphic settings and using the opengl gxApi

I might have to compile wine with valgrind later, but in the meantime, is there any way to spot where the l
world of warcraft memory leak

Memory Leak since 10.2.5 (new issue since today 17 Jan)

Syrjur-stormscale1

Hi all,

Since the update today, I get a strong and immediate memory leak. It creeps up by about 0.2gb every second until my Mac crashes.

I’m on an M1 Mac, Ventura 13.3 with 8GB ram.

As soon as I log in the force quit applications window opens and shows WoW at ~4GB ram and increases by 0.2 per second until my computer crashes around the 6GB mark.

I have all addons disabled. Nothing new installed or changed on my mac.

Thanks

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Åbömìnãtïôn-ravencrest2

Having regular memory leak crashes on PC too, along with other weird issues (game minimizing for 5 seconds randomly).
Game worked perfectly fine yesterday

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Emelae-golemagg3

Clicking play on battlenet blue-screened my PC and after restarting completely reset my battlenet app.

I had to log in again and locate all my games when they are still installed, but it can’t find the correct version of WoW. Now I can’t log in at all.

Chaoscolipop-nordrassil4

yeah im getting crashes and the boxes that show up are saying not enough memory. i got plenty and shouldnt be a problem. closed everything down in the background just for

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