Not enough memory - CRASH Win 11 16 gig i7

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16 gig of functional ram this computer is an i7/9700. “8core” 3.00ghz. I did memtest overnight twice. SSD are fine.

It pops up 3 windows. This time only 2:

Not enough memory. Please refer to https://battle.net/support/article/6926 to find out how to reduce your memory usage

On this computer as tests. I have ran:
Solid Works
Adobe Photoshop
Final fantasy
Eve
Downloaded **** while watching ****
While playing a movie minimized on youtube.

This memory issue only happens with WOW.

Last time, 5 years ago, I could stick my tongue on my processor and tech support (Blizzard) blamed it on overheating. It was something strange. The crashes mostly happen after load screens finish. A few times in a raid, I could run a few mobs ahead and it would build behind me.
It builds slow sometimes, the load screen takes too long sometimes. It happens randomly a lot. I go into task manager and end 100% of the non-mandatory processes. I run bleach bit, cc cleaner and other things - still crash crash crash. Then I go design models on solidwork, while listening to music and just for fun download some stuff, and load up final fantasy and EVE - no issues. So I go back to WOW. CrAsh, cRaSh cRASH.

New modem/router (from ATT). Speed is highest in area (Indianapolis Suburb - t1 is not here yet). New Ethernet cable. Even if it is difficult to do everytime… If someone tells me how I will dedicate 100% of the computer or as much as possible to the game when I play I’d do that.

Can anyone think of out of the box solutions like pagefile or other things that might not be tech support go to. My ex played WOW on a 9 yr old laptop with 8gig of ram. It loaded slow but it worked better than mine.

Yes everything is updated. Yes, I ran the overheating program you now demand. No it is not that. No hardware changes, no viruses found by windows security. Odd thing… On occasion google, amazon and other sites that size. I set off their captcha are you a robot test.

Last time I did tech support on open forums like this. I did trace routing and “stuff”. The person asked me for a lot of specific but odd data. It was labeled as blizzard (the person) 2 weeks later first time in 20 ++ years I was hacked. Not saying at all WOW did it. I was posting public. So keep that in mind.

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Hi Therapy

This sure has the looks of a UI issue. I don’t see mention that you reset things there as a test. If not let’s give that a shot.

As I said - this is a test. If it doesn’t help - delete the WTF and Interface folders the launcher installed. Remove the OLD suffix from your original folders. Will return all settings. I wouldn’t bother with Cache - always good to build a new one.

Have you ever adjusted your Virtual Memory - Page File settings? Best to leave those Windows managed.

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Make sure that your swapfile (ie Virtual Memory) is enabled. That you bring up the pagefile makes me suspect you’ve been tinkering with it, and it’s still far too common that people will turn it off under the misguided expectation that it will somehow make their system run better. It won’t - and it will make things unstable. Without a swapfile the pagefile will now be stored in RAM, and any requested memory will be allocated whether it is used or not, both of which lead to even large RAM amounts proving woefully inadequate.

If you want to see the difference between requested and used memory, bring up the Details view in the Task Manager and add the “Commit Size” column. Compare this to the “Memory (allocated)” value. Some tasks can vary by over an order of magnitude.

Turn Virtual Memory on, leave it on. The only setting you should even consider changing are those which restrict it to specific drives - and even then you should leave the actual allocation up to the OS.

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router / modem has 0 to do with frames.
i would delete the wow cache’s as mentioned above if you have upgraded before you downloaded the game or copied it from another pc it will be trying to use the old pc hardware when it fails to see it. it will revert to defaults but constantly try to revert to old pc’s hard ware resulting in a hardware loop.

also go to your wow.exe (in the folder not the desktop shortcut!) >properties>compatibility>tick run as administrator.
do the same with battlenet launcher

if all the other games are fine then its not a hardware issue its a blizzard games issue or win 11 issue. last resort is to redownload the whole game could be corrupted files

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getting out of memory, started 3 or 4 days ago, it was working fine
tried all that garbage just letting them know

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