Is there an option/way to cap the amount of RAM WoW uses

[Jere-llane (Jere)]

Just an update: While I didn’t find a way to limit RAM usage directly, blizzard acknowledged the leak in another thread and provided a command we can use to temporarily reset the memory consumption. See linked post below:

Memory Leak

We’ve identified and are working on a fix for unbounded memory growth that’s affecting Windows users using DX11 and all Mac users. We should ideally have a hotfix build deployed early next week with the fix. In the meantime, typing /console gxrestart in chat should cause the client to jump back down to normal memory usage (but will keep growing again after). On Windows, using DX12 or DX11 Legacy backends should avoid the bug all together. For those curious about the code side of things, the …