So, I haven’t played in a bit and I was looking at my task manager and saw WoW is using more resources than it used to. It’s also displayed as World of Warcraft (2) with the second one being voice chat. Is there any way to disable this?
There is no way to in game disable it, you simply just have to decline using it. However in parental controls you can completely disable voice chat which you’d have to set up in your account profile (which is what I do), or block the voice chat using your firewall. If this info is outdated, I’m sorry, it was all I could find when I asked the same question a few months back.
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Since 8.1 disabling it in Parental Controls no longer does anything.
The game will still try to continually connect to the voice chat causing extra lag. In my case it still stays running after exiting the game
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My game was taking forever to load anytime I hearthed or portaled. made a new character and that one had no problems at all. So, I went and deleted my cache and WTF folders and that fixed the problem with my other toons.
Your post has nothing to do with the topic, “Disabling Voice Chat”
Thank you, this is my issue. I can see the nonsensical, mis-spelled system error msg when I log in, saying “Could not find the player to invite to to the voice chat channel”. I’d like to know who “the” player is this silly message is referring to. Blocking chat with Parental Controls did nothing to stop the message. I have yet to test to see if, when blocked thru Parental Controls, it still allows the player to connect to a live channel. That would be the real cherry on top of this pile.
disabling voice chat in parental controls will stop you from being able to use it in game, but it doesn’t stop the actual file from running every time you play the game.
the voice chat exe takes up virtually no resources in comparison to the game itself - there is no reason to be concerned about stopping it from running. when running on my computer i see voice proxy using about .02 gb of ram, while the game is using just under 2gb of ram. so it uses 1/1000th of the amount of ram that the game uses - put another way, it increases your ram usage by .001%.
if you’re seeing error messages related to it in game, something on your computer is probably blocking it or trying to block it, which will cause many more issues than it just running in the background.
Thanks for the additional insight. For what it’s worth, Windows (10) Defender shows two WoW voice proxies allowed. Set to notify me of any blocking action. I don’t use any other security or firewall apps. It started with 8.1, and at this point it’s not worth trouble-shooting. My ping is less than 40ms, and frame rate well over 100. Thanks again.
what was taking forever is the loss of voice chat and the regaining connection and the messages that popped up.
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Blizzards horrible implementation of the voice chat system in wow is overthrottling my game. There needs to be a way of disabling this.
If it’s not in use, then it does nothing, so there’s no reason to actually disable it. That being said, it’s rather pointless to have in the game when maybe 1:10000 groups actually use it.
If you feel like your wow is being “overthrottled,” then it likely has absolutely nothing to do with the wowvoiceproxy.exe (unless you did something silly like block it in your firewall, in which case, the client might spaz out trying to run some basic startup polling/connection tasks)