absolutely, ive tried literally no addons except bartender and repairing the game. The game has been inching toward 5-7 gb mem usage for a long time now. Idr when it started, but i do know that the first prepatch about doubled my /reload times. (im retail, but i dont see many threads about this)
This is also randomly happening with Cataclysm too. I havenāt played much of Cata in the past 2-3 weeks so I canāt say for sure when this started happening.
Notably I do alt+tab quite a lot. Nothing out of the ordinary for anything else.
This is causing WoW to constantly crash when playing on the Steam Deck too.
Welcome to the prepatch
is it yourā¦First time?
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This also happen in WoW Season of Discovery (SoD) for me.
Playing on Lutris but it seems like that Linux/Lutris isnāt the issue after reading the reports here.
Debian 12, running through Lutris, since yesterday system halts randomly after around 20-30 minutes of play.
dmesg output:
Out of memory: Killed process 12595 (WoW.exe) total-vm:63633276kB, anon-rss:12366736kB, file-rss:97148kB, shmem-rss:22956kB, UID:1000 pgtables:44980kB oom_score_adj:200
Waiting for a soon fix
Void Linux user here playaing on Lutris.
To my luck(?) the OS itself ājust hangsā for a few seconds (3-5ish) and WoW forcequits. So i ājustā have to restart the client. The issue remains tho.
Since about 2 days i experienced the same.
System Specs as follows:
-Computer-
Processor : 16x AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory : 32776MB (9996MB used)
Operating System : Void Linux
User Name : gee (gee)
Date/Time : Fri 16 Aug 2024 09:05:20 AM CEST
-Display-
Resolution : 5760x1595 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
edit: remove useless clutter info to keep thread clean
it is very annoying
Same for me (i7-12700k, 32GB RAM, 4060 Ti 16GB GPU, Win 11 Home). Ranging anywhere between 9-9.7GB memory usage before the crash.
Insane amount of Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events being logged as well due to this.
1 - Install Buggrabber and Bugsack addons. If this thing is bleeping with errors you know you have some broken addons.
2 - At least post some minimal PC info.
Exact Operating System version(full build version), CPU model, Video Card model, Video driver version.
Where do I get this info? ..\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Logs\gx.log
You could just paste the first 20 lines of this log if want. It has all the relevant info.
i can say with certainity that thatās not an AddOn related problem. I am medicore experienced in writing/updating my UI with the latest API changes.
so in addition to system info from
8/16 08:19:39.324 LogOpen
8/16 08:19:39.324 World of Warcraft Retail x86_64 11.0.2.56110
8/16 08:19:39.324 Windows 10 (10.0.19043) (wine emulation) x86_64
8/16 08:19:39.324 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor | Sockets:1 Cores:8 Threads:16 | Max Frequency: 4.8GHz
8/16 08:19:39.324 31.3 GB System Memory
8/16 08:19:39.324 On AC Power - Battery Not Present
8/16 08:19:39.923 Adapter 0: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090" family:Unknown type:Integrated location:0 driver_date:Unknown driver_ver:(0x7fffffffffffffff) vendor:0x10de device:0x2684 dx11:true dx12:true
8/16 08:19:39.923 Monitor 0 "Generic Non-PnP Monitor" Size(1920x1080) Pos(0, 0)
8/16 08:19:39.923 Monitor 1 "Generic Non-PnP Monitor" Size(1920x1080) Pos(-1920, 0)
8/16 08:19:39.923 Monitor 2 "Generic Non-PnP Monitor" Size(1920x1080) Pos(1920, 0)
8/16 08:19:39.923 Monitor 3 "Generic Non-PnP Monitor" Size(1920x515) Pos(0, 1080)
8/16 08:19:39.924 Choosing low power gpu: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090"
8/16 08:19:39.924 Compat Settings: Disable Opt Features:true, Disable Device MT:false, Disable Cmdlist MT:false, Disable work sub optims:true, Disable async frame end:true
8/16 08:19:39.924 GpuInfo: sm:dx_5_0, rt:None, vrs:2, bary:0, mesh:1 pull:1
8/16 08:19:39.924 D3d12 Device Create
8/16 08:19:39.924 DXGI_FEATURE_PRESENT_ALLOW_TEARING:true
8/16 08:19:40.533 NotifyOnDeviceCreate
8/16 08:19:40.541 D3d12 Device Create Successful
8/16 08:19:40.541 Using shader family dx_5_0
8/16 08:19:40.541 UAV format support RGBA8:true BGRA8:true RG16F:false RGBA16F:false
8/16 08:19:40.541 <IsGPUDriverOutOfDate> No
8/16 08:19:40.542 Detected Graphics Defaults: 2 (CPU = 7, GPU = 2, MEM = 7) WindowSize: 1920x1080
8/16 08:19:40.542 GxLowLatencyMode: None
8/16 08:19:40.624 Render Settings Changed
8/16 08:19:41.972 Render Settings Changed
8/16 08:19:41.982 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 0.4GB / 21.5GB (2.1%)
8/16 08:24:41.990 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.1GB / 21.4GB (10.0%)
8/16 08:29:41.997 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.1GB / 21.4GB (9.7%)
8/16 08:34:42.007 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.6%)
8/16 08:39:42.017 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.7%)
8/16 08:44:42.023 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.8%)
8/16 08:49:42.034 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.9%)
8/16 08:54:42.045 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.8%)
8/16 08:59:42.056 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.8%)
8/16 09:04:42.065 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.3GB (10.9%)
8/16 09:09:42.074 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.3GB (10.9%)
8/16 09:14:42.083 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.8%)
8/16 09:19:42.090 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.2GB / 21.4GB (10.3%)
8/16 09:24:42.098 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.4GB (10.6%)
8/16 09:29:42.107 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.3GB (10.6%)
8/16 09:34:42.115 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.4GB / 21.3GB (11.0%)
8/16 09:39:42.127 Periodic Gpu Status Report: Mem Budget: 2.3GB / 21.3GB (10.9%)
8/16 09:40:27.958 D3d12 Device Destroy
8/16 09:40:27.959 NotifyOnDeviceDestroy
8/16 09:40:28.301 GxShutdown
Same issue, only started after the latest patch. I can run newest AAA games with ultra + raytracing without any crash and 100 fps+. Not my pc for sure since it only happens since latest patch. Please fix.
so what are the conclusions? Nothing helps or do some graphic settings still help? I caught this error during an AOE on a mage, at level 45 on a hardcore server. Iām lucky, I just finished killing mobs, but Iām afraid to go play.
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Good morning,
It looks like thereās a few reports here and elsewhere of this issue happening recently, mostly with players using Linux. Could you make sure that youāve followed the steps in this article please?
Thank you!
I am on windows and none of these steps unfortunately helped. 
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its not on our end, its the prepatch, cant be everyone just stasrted having this since prepatch i mean cmon
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Same here using Windows 11. I have tried every step, no addons, resetting UI, repairing game, even re-installed the game but sadly crashes are happening ā¦ so for sure it`s not on our end. If you plan to have early access with that issue on top (i am pretty sure there will be tons of other issues like always) better start planning some compensations for people 
Iāve followed the recommended steps, to no avail : it seems the memory leak is incredibly fast. For a long time WoW.exe sits comfortably on 5 Gb of RAM, the next second it tries to gobble up all my 32 Gb at once.
If it helps, I was doing a solo normal run of Sanguine Depths. The game crashed just upon arriving in front of the final boss, but it definitely happens in other situations.
Tested on Windows 10 (Geforce 4060 with 16Gb vRAM, 32Gb RAM).
Itās definitely caused by the latest client patch on 14/08/2024.
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Im on windows with plenty of memory to play everything, yesterday while opening boxes in remix the error happened, its from your end.
New day, new bugs, nothing of value added.
i use windows and guys from my guild too. wow classic hc stiches, defians pillager people has this crash