How to fix HoTS memory leak

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For a couple of weeks now, I have been unable to play Heroes of the Storm. Memory use at launch of the game is normal 1GB or so but over the course of a couple minutes it escalates to 25+GB until the game is unresponsive. I used to be able to play in 32-bit but that is no longer available. I have attempted to uninstall / reinstall, repair the game, change priority and affinity of the process, update drivers, among others. Any suggestions on how to stop this memory leak?

*Note: also happens with Starcraft but no other game / application on my machine.

Screenshot of task manager after a couple of minutes:
/imgur.com/W6yjLUp

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Hey, j311yb311y97! We’ve seen the Discord Overlay cause some strange Memory spikes. Try disabling Discord while playing or the Discord Overlay under Settings > Overlay, then toggle ‘Enable Overlay’ off. It can help to also close background applications on start up.

Let us know if any of these steps resolve the issue! If it’s persistent, please post a DxDiag. Place the DxDiag within the Code Block </>.