I can no longer play WoW

…because of the new memory leak bug that blizz introduced that is crashing the game client. Many posts on the bug and tech support forums. Zero responses from blizz. Big sad. :slightly_frowning_face:

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For realz? I havent upgraded my pc in over 10 years and this blows my mind. Looks like I’m going to be parts hunting for a new PC build this x-mas!

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Yes they are absolutely cheap… If it was 2021 then I’d understand since they were almost $200-$300 for 32gb

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Amount of RAM is irrelevant to this issue… It’s crashin the game with 32GB too.

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Wait till you see the big boi hard crash.

:cowboy_hat_face:

:surfing_woman: :surfing_man:

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32 GB is a finite number (as is any amount of RAM in a physical system), so if a memory leak is eating 1 GB/min, can you figure out how many minutes it takes to crash a 32 GB machine (that the OS & AV are probably using 30% before WoW is even launched)?

Saying how cheap memory is indicates you don’t understand what a Memory Leak even is.

It’s a real issue, that Blizzard has acknowledged and is trying to fix.

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Oh man, that ad! The bane of my mum’s existence!

the problem with that is you and everyone thinks it’s blizzards fault for using an old dx 11 when people should have common sense and do some research, that there’s this dx 12 that almost every Joe’s PC have, including the Walmart specials.

Any GPU starting from GTX 600 and up, and Radeon HD 7000 series and up are capable of running dx 12.

You can’t say otherwise because I’m pretty sure everyone doesn’t have a windows XP computer running wow right now.

Never had a memory leak on dx 12, blizzard has been supporting dx 12 since BfA and everyone was notified then that dx 12 was the better choice

$50 for a 32gb kit of RAM? are you serious? because the last time i checked, it was more expensive than that. I’m referring to the DDR4 3200Mhz type btw

It was working before and now it’s not because of a patch Blizzard pushed. How is that not Blizzard’s fault? Plus @Sendryn tried DX12 and it did NOT fix the issue as suggested.

Now if Blizzard had removed DX11 support and said “If you don’t transition to DX12 by XYZ date, you won’t be able to play,” and we’re past XYZ date, then I’d agree it’s not Blizzard’s fault. As long as they continue to say the support various specs, but those specs suddenly stop working after a patch they pushed, that’s 100% on Blizzard. To say otherwise is irrational “white-knight” behavior… it’s okay to be a Blizz fanboi, but don’t expect your logic to stand up to any challenge when it’s emotionally driven.

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I’d like to point out that link to blue’s response to a memory is from November 2023. That’s not for the current issue.

I’ve had one crash today so far. When I checked Event Viewer, I had like hundreds of 2004 ID Events.

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Because I tried to create that problem and it only happened on dx 11. No one should be using it especially in 2024. I have left wow on for hours and yet to see a memory leak

I’m starting to think it’s user error

Yea, was gonna say. There has been no blue post about the current memory leak issue. Only an old one from 23.

I have 32 GB and I crashed to desktop in a key yesterday. Not Enough Memory error. It’s definitely the game. Had a guildie experience the same thing.

I never in my life have had WoW crash to desktop like that.

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You kinda stole my thunder. This mem leak doesn’t seem to be happening to my machine. Dx 12 on win 11. I didn’t even this was an issue until I read this topic.

Also 32 gigs is almost overkill for most games. Certainly is for wow. My system has 64 but I didn’t build my system strictly for gaming in mind . If gaming is all I did with it I wouldn’t have put 64 in it.

That’s because you have a big brain and you know what common sense is.

Always get more than what your favorite games require. Eventually wow will want 32 GB, probably in the last titan expansion

Your machine will use as much RAM as is available to it, aka, the GPU will use RAM. Just like how the GPU will allocate as much VRAM as it wants and it will also pull from RAM for performance.

ram are cheap now
I had 96 GB
get 32 or 64 for the best for you

Of course it will . But that’s not what people mean when they say you don’t need x ram for such and such an application.

They are talking about wasting resources and above all money.

No I won’t explain it more than that. Don’t have the time.

Okay? What does that have to do with anything?