When i play wow retail and have youtube playing and some of my other apps running in the background. the games my overall ram usage is almost at max. Is it worth buying some more? I have 16gb right now. Im just wondering would this high ram usage effect my gameplay at all? It stutters sometimes in Valdrakken but its very busy there.
16gb should be fine-ish
Windows likes to eat up ram for telemetry and whatnot. And web browsers are ripe with memory leaks.
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I played WoW for years with just 8GB of RAM before I built my PC last year.
As of for the high usage, if you are using Google Chrome, you should consider using something else, Chrome is a RAM eater.
Also, check if you REALLY need all that other stuff running while playing, if your RAM usage goes to a maximum. Also, when it happens, tab out and check via the Task Manager by RAM usage filter (click for this on the RAM usage tab) and check what else is eating RAM up. It can always be the case that some Malware is on your PC ruining performance.
As for myself, I wonât really ever have RAM issues, because I settled for the maximum of 128GB RAM in my build (not for games but 3D software I work with).
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I usually have discord on, youtube playing on firefox and thatâs about it. I have icu and razer stuff running for my keyboard and RGB. I have about 1gb of addons running that isnât helping matters either. the main ones that are hogging the ram is.
TSM, ATT, RaiderIO, zygors and WA. turning off Zygors and TSM helps a lot about 700mb or something like that. I will consider turning off them when I donât need them. Thanks for the reply
Test it; close background programs so you arenât at your RAM ceiling while playing, and that is how the game will behave with more memory and not closing things.
In the end, 16gb is not a particularly generous amount in 2024 and 32gb is not at all excessive.
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for the price of it too its not that expensive to add another 2x8gb slots too. I think I will just pull the plug and buy some.
Most of the time youâll do better buying 2x16 and replacing the old 2x8.
Quite common to find you canât run the full memory speed when you have 4 slots populated. Itâll work, just not as well.
You can have a scheduler task to remove the RAM that windows and other apps temp fill so you donât have this problem, thatâs what I used to do when I had 16gb and it kept me going well.
RAM is very cheap usually so yes absolutely.
Even though 16gb is fine, the normal standard these days is 32, so Iâd recommend checking what ram you have and buy another stick of 16gb or 2 sticks of 8, if that is what you already have.
But depends if your computer was purchased already built, then things can be a bit tricky, especially if whatever company used cheap ram, which a lot of them do, if you donât know what youâre buying.
Just remember to buy 2 sticks of 16gb for example, as you should not have a single stick of ram as you then donât take advantage of the dual channel and youâll be bottle necking your computer.
Just make sure itâs the same frequency/channel or youâll end up having 2 new sticks, which wonât work with the other 2 sticks.
Try to run the game with no addons to see if thereâs a difference
my PC is 16gb ram and Iâve often got several tabs of youtube on chrome open simultaniously, never gets as bad as you describe
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Yeah, Iâm running 16GB as well, and I invariably have an absurd number of tabs open, often including YT for podcasts while playing, and I donât have memory problems.
Right now, with ⌠um ⌠a lot of tabs and WoW, my memory is at 10.8/16GB, though I do see it going up to 12+ often enough.
Open your Task Manager, watch your Performance tab for a bit, watch the Processes tab and sort by Memory. It might give you some ideas about what you can jettison.
It causes problems for me when the PC has been on for a long time⌠as if it had a memory leak. Memory consumption skyrocketsâŚ
Iâm running 16GB aswell.
Well, if you think you have a memory leak somewhere, Restart your PC, and keep an eye on your usage with Task Manager and Resource Monitior (or just Restart every day! 
)
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I woud restart the pc (with the restart option- not just shutdown option) becuase some programs seems not close fully after shutdown the cache is full.
I had thatt one with full ram ouput, restart and its clear again.
i am perfectly fine with 2x8 currently without a single issue or bottleneck but lately indistury standart start to become 2x16 . They donât cost an arm and leg like other components so maybe just upgrade it to 32
Always Future Proof if you can afford it.
I usually buy a new PC every 5-7 years, my current PC is in its 3rd year, and I play World of Warcraft on max settings, 260-280 FPS, a bunch of tabs and apps open, I have a widescreen monitor, 90% of the time, when playing WoW I have PiP open, watching Netflix in the corner of my screen as I play WoW.
All this yet I donât think Iâve ever seen my RAM usage above 60%.
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If itâs using 95-99% then yes, you should.
Or you can try Linux - weâve got some nice RAM compression stuff plus we run less bloat. But thatâs a big change, buying more RAM is easier.
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I am addon heavy, and the game uses 2GB⌠how are you at 95% with 16gb even with YouTube open? o.O
Anyways, might help if you Ctrl+Alt+Del, go to DETAILS, right click WoW.exe and set PRIORITY to HIGH to set WoW up for more resources over your other Apps.
Websites tend to eat tons of memory between all those modern frameworks.
Some people tend to have a million browser tabs open. When you donât see the titles just icons.
I used to have specific problems with wowhead, but itâs more about the concept of loading so many ads so often. I would end up with a single browser tab eating 14GB RAM. Yes.
95% load is unhealthy. It likely means that Windows is already swapping out some less used processes, and it canât really go beyond that. Last year I had a job with a silly environment, where we had 150% committed load, but it was showing around 89% actively used memory. Even at 550%, it didnât go above 95%.
In the end, itâs the home of a maniac collector. You can move around, but itâs stuff everywhere and if you want to access something that isnât at the edge, good luck.