What richard said check for the error code and google for answers to try figure it, also try repair on wow found from battle.net launcher.
“Memory acces violation unable to read” gives me too many different examples. For one example for the wording you gave for topic, I see few cases whose issue where overclocked cpu for that search criteria
The most common cause is the data containing an address was corrupted. This has then pointed to memory WoW can’t access.
The number one cause is unstable memory. Do you have overclocked memory or an overclocked processor? Stress tests dont actually work very well as it doesn’t check that every bit written and read is matches.
I don’t know if you have league of legends or valorant installed or a game such as cod .I used to get problems in the past with wow because of these games .when I uninstalled them everything went back to normal with wow
1; maybe the is an addons or something that make the crash?
also do this.
2; change the location of the game folder to another drive. (maybe that part of your hard disk is not ok)
3: check your graphic cart and the update version.
i remember i had the same probelm in wow shadowlands and changed my graphic card.
turned out that my gpu is getting at the end of its life and it crashes me out of wow after few minutes
In addition to what everyone else already has said, how much RAM does your PC have? If you are at 8GB or possibly even 12GB, WoW will eventually run out of memory, especially with addons or with lots of backgrounds apps running.
If you’re tech-savvy, can you confirm if your RAM sticks are all identical or if you have, for example, 2 modules from different vendors? Can you confirm if the same issue is replicated with XMP profile enabled/disabled?
I haven’t had to use stability checks for some time now. So if someone has better post here.
Memory first: I use Karhu myself. HCImemtest uses a very similar algorithm sequence and is free, while Karhu is not.
Karhu is quickest so can give a good result after a couple of hours. HCImemtest is better with an over night check. There is no memory check system that is 100% accurate, as the programme has to use some of the resources it is looking at.
Memtest86 and memtest64 were considered bad algorithms to give a valid result with memory checks.
CPU: Cinebench seems to be the most favoured right now. This can be downloaded from many sites.
Gpu errors are usually found while running games. Unigene-Heaven is one test facility, but it is old and doesn’t always stress the hardware of modern GPUs. Though, it is good for under-volting and finding where the sweet spot is on a GPU as it gives a score to base the effectiveness of the set up.
For abnormal crashes that are difficult to track down, I use hwinfo and send all the information to a second PC. This way when you get a crash, you get to see the last piece of information that can be recorded. This is very easy to set up in settings. Or at least was in the last PC I had to do this with early last year.
If you use a piece of software that constantly checks sensor information, then only ever one at a time. Disable sensor checking from the likes of icue etc. Two software packages trying to address the same sensor at the same time can cause crashes in themselves.
Windows memory diagnostic system checks the interactions between the hardware in the PC. It is not a definitive indicator of memory issues, as the issue could be the hardware it interacts with. It also only checks the first 4gb of your system’s memory.
I should add:
Memtest86 was always frowned upon as it used a linear algorithm. The ones I linked have a randomiser built into the programme. This maybe different now, but it does not look like it is being used on forums.
My IT skills are a little out of date these days, not sure if still relevant but here’s my 2pence anyhow (it’s the internet everyone throws their ideas in).
I’d Defrag the hard drive incase you’re using some Virtual Memory on that it might resolve it.
Given how much RAM is installed these days I’m not sure Virtual memory is still a thing but maybe.
Given that so many hard drives are SSDs I’m not sure if defragging still offers much benefit.
But all it would cost is some time, defragging used to be slow but I imagine these days it’s a bit quicker but I’d still put aside an hour or two.
The way windows handles virtual memory is weird these days, I have 64GB of ram on one computer and 32 on another, I’ve never filled that ram past 40 or 50% even with 20 tabs open or while working on a project in visual studio. But I still see virtual memory storing stuff.
Make sure that you have installed the latest bios with the fix for gen 13 and 14 intel CPU’s. people have experienced crashing and permanent degradation to their CPU because of an error causing the CPU to request too much voltage.