Perhaps this is what happened to me. One of the cataloger quests crashes itself and parks me, alive, at a site that would be a spirit healer if I were dead.
I filed a bug against it, sure
but when I tried to file a bug against a different quest (normal, not WQ) the thing asks me if I’m human, claims it’s satisfied, and then won’t pass me onward to the bugs submission UI.
I don’t think it’s graphics per se, my mac isn’t even warm. It’s just deeply crazy in there somehow.
also, “not human”, obviously i’m a night elf. eesh
It seems to be fixed for me as of wednesday evening. This incident inspired me to (finally) update my ram from 8gb to 16gb. Installed the RAM after work and played on DX11 Legacy for maybe 20 minutes then switched to regular DX11 and messed around in Emerald Dream for about 2 hours. RAM usage never went above 50% with just WoW and performance monitor open. I highly recommend anyone still rocking 8gb or less to update asap, it didn’t increase my fps or anything but it certainly does seem more stable.
Anyway, seems like the fix worked for the DX11 RAM issue in particular. For me.
Now if the Blizzard Frame Crafting UI memory leak could be looked at…
It’s been a full year, and I think has yet to be noticed by the company because the devs haven’t been sat down to click “create all” on an item and let it spin for a few hours. WoW likes to pre-allocate a bunch of RAM, so for the first 30 min or so memory usage doesn’t seem to go up (stays at 4GB), but then linearly starts climbing to infinity once that block of memory is depleted. 1.5GB/hour leak at default craft speed. It’s leaking per item crafted btw, hence linear with speed.
It’s not fun noticing 20GB of swap file has been eaten by WoW. This game is destroying the SSDs of people who craft a lot.
Link to the still unresolved Blizzard Frame Crafting UI Memory Leak Bug Report:
There seems to be a lot of memory leaks in the prepatch. If I am in the dragon isles I can’t play for more than 1/2 hour before I run out of ram and my PC shuts down.
Update: After some testing I discovered the leak is REALLY BAD in Valdraken. I ran out of RAM there after about ten minutes.
I just had this happen to me twice today while just stand in Stormwind for a 30 minutes or so. These are the first two times this has ever happen, it’s good to see that I’m not the only that notice the bug during Pre-patch.
At random time World of Warcraft will stutter and closes itself automatically and I had the task manager open during the latest freeze and wow.exe was using 27GB of ram out of 32GB available.
It does seem like there may be a memory leak of some sort in the latest patch.
I’ve had 3 or 4 OOM errors in the last 24 hours with 32Gb RAM and plenty of storage space.
They all happened on radiant echoes bosses but that’s all I’m doing right now.
Leveling up all my forgotten alts.
I saw this post after replying to a thread in Tech Support. I’ve had this issue as well. Happened the first time in Neltharus. I got the “addons causing issues” window later in Valdrakken. I shut off all of my addons and reloaded and a few minutes later got the same window. Then, about a minute later I got the OOM error again.
I turned the game back on after dinner, reloaded my updated addons to work out some WeakAura and Plater profiles, and got 2 OOM issues/dcs back to back. So I shut the game off and came here.
I had a memory issue today, though it was my Chrome that told me I didn’t have enough memory. The thing is, I have 16GB of memory and I have always ran WOW with YouTube in the background on Chrome without any issues until today.
And my friend was texting me a screen shot of a notification he was getting in WoW about low memory.
Seems really odd, never had issue until Tuesday’s patch
Same here. Tried an Intel machine and an AMD machine (32 GB on the Intel, 32 GB on the AMD), both were suffering 100% memory usage in under 10 minutes. For me, it started after the hotfix last night (~ 8PM EDT, 14 August 2024) that disabled currency transfers.
From my experience, any trip through or travel near Valdrakken greatly accelerates the game client locking up.
I tried every means available to me to throttle game settings to bare bones minimum and still it locked up fairly quickly, under 5 minutes in the basin where the Time Rifts occur and similarly 5 minutes after passing through Valdrakken to enter the portal to the Emerald Dream. I does not seem to be as bad if you are doing older content, but others have complained in zone chat of crashes doing the pre-patch events. I have certainly notice frame rates tanking and laggy responses on the summoned bosses even before this recent iteration of memory leak.
Apparently optimization is sub-optimal in all these instances.
I posted my issue in another thread that is blowing up. But thought I’ll post it in here too.
Yesterday I started experiencing game crashes where WoW.exe would suddenly use 30 of the 32GB of my RAM and my entire PC would freeze. I use Linux, so when this happens the problem program will automatically terminate (which in this case every single time is World of Warcraft). Restarting was a temporary fix as the game went on to do this 3 more times throughout the evening before I decided I had enough and quit the game for the night.
It did not seem to matter where I was or what I was doing. Once I was in Org, Once in Valdrakken, and once in Ahn’Qiraj all by myself. As someone posted prior, it did seem like being in places like Valdrakken sped up the crash, but even cranking my graphics to minimum made zero difference.
I tried everything - updating my OS, disabling all addons, lowering graphics, changing the wine version I was running on, and more. But glad to see I’m not alone in this because I started considering the possibility that something was physically wrong with my RAM itself.
Also as I said, I do use Linux as an OS, just to let the Windows users know so they don’t think it’s just a Windows issue.
UPDATE: Logged in this morning, still experiencing the memory spikes.
Can confirm i’ve had memory leak issues since 11.0.2. My game has ran out of memory twice since the patch, both of which happened after I was tabbed out for ~10-20 minutes in Dalaran and Valdrakken
The memory leak seems to be doing some weird things. Yesterday when I was on my bank toon condensing items in my bank the game crashed telling me it didn’t have enough memory. Figured ‘okay memory leak in WoW’ and stayed logged off. Today I get back on and played for about an hour on lvl70 character doing some echo grinding to gear them up. Found I couldn’t transfer echos so I logged out, back in and still unable. Couldn’t transfer any currency. Got on my bank character and my bank, which was nearly full yesterday, had about 30 items in total in it. Logged off and came here to add my issue to the pile. Really hoping my bank toons bank isn’t just gone.