Crash when running two wow instances

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This is probably fairly unique to me, but figured I would ask and see if anyone else has had this happen.

Retail Wow. I have two wow accounts, under the same bnet account. Often I play them both simultaneously. I use the bnet client, select the one account from the drop down and hit play, select a character and log in. I then return to the bnet client and select the other account from the drop down, hit play, it launches a second instance of wow, I select a character and log in. I play in windowed mode and resize the two wow windows to see them both and click between them.

Since the 11.0 patch, I have been having an issue where the second launched wow instance will crash after ~20 minutes. Only this second wow crashes, the first wow instance I ran is fine and doesn’t seem to have any issues. I can run it by itself for hours. If I launch that second instance of wow again, it will crash again after ~20 min or so.

Mac Studio M1 Max
64GB ram
Sonoma 14.5

The crash report doesn’t tell me much. I was thinking some sort of memory leak but why would that affect only the second running instance of wow?

==============================================================================
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000000A0
ProcessID: 15545
ThreadID: 60931

<Exception.IssueType> Exception
Crash
Exception.Summary:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000000A0
0 0x00000001047B9D24 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft” ← 1 0x00000001033D2F58 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft” ← 2 0x00000001033D3CA8 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
<:Exception.Summary>
Exception.Assertion:
0 0x00000001047B9D24 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
1 0x00000001033D2F58 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
2 0x00000001033D3CA8 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
3 0x00000001033D9828 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
4 0x00000001047E889C “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
5 0x00000001047E8EE4 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
6 0x00000001023A5E98 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
7 0x000000018CC66F94 “libsystem_pthread.dylib”
<:Exception.Assertion>
Exception.HashBlock:
ERROR #132

0 0x00000001047B9D24 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
1 0x00000001033D2F58 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
2 0x00000001033D3CA8 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
3 0x00000001033D9828 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
4 0x00000001047E889C “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
5 0x00000001047E8EE4 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
<:Exception.HashBlock>
No
<Jira.JiraProjectId> 11701
<Jira.JiraProjectKey> WOW11
<Exception.ProjectId> 10

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I have the same problem under Windows 11. Not always as long as 20 minutes. sometimes much longer. I think it only started happening with The War Within. But, I run two fullscreen instances, switching between them, mostly doing crafting between alts on my two accounts. If I stay in the second initiated instance, the first one might crash after a while, though I think I log out of one before one of them crashes sometimes. Recently, it seems to happen sooner. I don’t see any response to this here - has it been fixed for you?