Hello. I went back to orgrimmar from a dungeon (had been playing all day with no problem) then suddenly my “Force Quit” window came up and it showed WoW was using 138GB of ram (couldn’t move cursor or anything had to hard reset the macbook)
Anyone know why this happened?
EDIT
So it appears macOS has a memory leak issue that gets worse if you “alt-tab” … oddly I find that a lot of times I can’t even alt-tab when I’m in WoW? Anyone know why? Please let us know!
EDIT 2
it’s not just macOS that has memory leak problems it’s all WoW since 10.1 - you can research low fps 10.1 or similar things like that and you’ll see that many players are experience memory leaks since 10.1
what are the technical specs of your macbook? there is a known issue that impacts certain macs that are only capable of metal2 and running Ventura OS. the Wow memory usage increases significantly.
I don’t think it does. Metal 3 requires the Vega architecture or later, and the Pro 560 is from the previous Polaris family of chips so it would only do Metal 2.
“When we look at the spec sheets of the Macs: all Apple Silcon Macs, Intel MacBook Pro 13", 15" and 16" (2017 and later), Intel MacBook Air (2019 and later), iMac (some 2019 models and later), MacPro (2019 and later), MacMini (2018 and later), iMac Pro (2017 and later).
This list matches perfectly with macOS Ventura (Except the MacBook 12" from 2017). Therefore, I would argue: When you can get Ventura, you get Metal 3. [2]“
One way to find out for sure is to run the System Information program in the Utilities folder, select Graphics/Displays in the Hardware section of the sidebar, and see what the Metal Support line indicates.
The launcher’s Agent process will still run in the background even though the launcher closed after you opened the game.
The memory leak has been an issue with the launcher since early Shadowlands at least. It’s been reported many times on this forum but so far no permanent fix has been applied. I’ve taken to force-quitting the Agent process every day or two to make sure it doesn’t take up too much memory before crashing my Mac Studio.
I’m afraid you are on a Metal 2 only Mac, and additionally, you’re on Ventura, which has an unfixed (and likely never will be fixed) memory leak with Metal 2. Your only option is to downgrade your OS to Monterey and use migration assistant to bring over your apps and settings (only available if you did this from an external/clone). There is literally no other solution available to Macs that are stuck on Metal 2 at the moment other than to avoid Ventura forever unless Apple decides to be generous and fix the memory leak in that version of the API. Don’t hold your breath though.
This would be partially incorrect. Metal 3 support is based on the GPU, not machine type.
The Radeon 5xx series is not Metal 3 capable.
The above information was taken directly from the Metal landing page.
Chipset Model: Radeon Pro 560
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x8
VRAM (Total): 4 GB
Vendor: AMD (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x67ef
Revision ID: 0x00c0
ROM Revision: 113-C980AJ-927
VBIOS Version: 113-C9801AU-A02
EFI Driver Version: 01.A0.927
Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported
gMux Version: 4.0.29 [3.2.8]
Metal Support: Metal 3
I’m also on a 2017 Macbook Pro with Ventura, and I’ve been having massive fps issues recently as well as memory leaks. Probably time to end the era of macbook gaming in my life lmao
I use the dedicated gpu all the time and there’s no issue.
This issue only happened once. If in the future I notice that sometimes wow starts to take a lot of GB in the activity monitor I’ll shut it off and restart the game that’s all.
It’s only happened once. I use Dedicated GPU everyday for hours all day. So yeah it’s only happened once so far.
I never said it’s only happening once. I said it’s happened once meaning it’s happened once.
I’m sure it could happen again. But it’s only reaching 8GB or so now instead of 138GB. My PC has 16GB of ram so 8GB is fine. That being said if I see it going to 8 or beyond I’ll just restart WoW.
By the by just so that we aren’t spreading misinformation or omitting anything, it’s not just macOS that has memory leak problems it’s all WoW since 10.1 - you can research low fps 10.1 or similar things like that and you’ll see that many players are experience memory leaks since 10.1