Not sure if it should be doing this, but running World of Warcraft currently uses two thousand megabytes (i’m assuming that means two gb) of memory… Is this normal??
2gb+ is perfectly normal, yes. The minimum ram required to run the game is 4gb but 8gb is a good idea if you run anything in the background.
You sure? No other game I own does this, or pushes my PC above 50-60 degrees (been monitoring that part with MSI afterburner).
WoW can easily eat 2 GB just loading into the game world for the first time. This is normal. It’s been normal for years now. As a 64-bit app, it isn’t limited to 2 GB (or 3.5 GB for 32-bit apps using physical address extension/PAE). And as a game session goes on, the OS will cache some of the game data into RAM for faster access. I’ve had WoW use a total of 17 GB on a couple of occasions when you factor in the cached data.
There’s nothing to worry about here.
for some comparisons, my google chrome is using 2gb of ram right now with just a few tabs open. witcher 3 uses 2gb right after starting, red dead redemption 2 is using over 5gb of ram right on opening. wow starts at 2 and as tiapriestess mentions, it can routinely get significantly higher than that.
also worth mentioning, depending on your cpu and gpu, 50-60 degrees is basically light use for most modern hardware. most reasonably recent cpu’s and gpu’s can/will routinely hit 70 or even 80+ under heavy load.
It must be the way the Blizz games access cached items.
I can have the same issue on D3, it will start running choppy all of a sudden, and of course when I check my control panel, it’s using all available ram. Restarting the client fixes it.
I don’t seem to have this problem on any other games I play, but it’s also true that I don’t play sessions as long on other games as I do with WoW or D3.
My WoW install usually uses about 2-3.5gb of ram at any given time. Also not that add-ons bump up the usage as well. (Most add-ons don’t use much but some like auctioneer ect can have a huge bump respectively)
Thank you for clarifying.
I only got my current pc about a year ago, and I was REALLY worried… and I’m not tech-savvy in the slightest. x.x