Wow Ram usage

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Hi, can anyone help with this:
The thing is, many times in rescent weeks Wow launches good and all but after 10-15 minutes game time so it is eating 15 GB of ram. I run 32 GB so game still runs smoothly but it has never eaten this much. No other game do this to me.

Any tips?

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  • Uninstall AddOns you don’t need/use
  • Run on lower settings regarding view distance and what not
  • Just deal with it
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Google wow addon memory leak. Possible culprit.

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It is normal . Mine takes 22 gb of ram .idle windows 11 easily takes 10 gb of ram these days

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Sounds like a memory leak. Check your addon RAM usage.

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Don’t think it’s normal lol
Mine takes 6 gb

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It’s not the game memory leaking, at least for me it’s not.

I noticed this issue today when my game spiked to 8.7 gb for no reason. Sat still in Elwynn for a while to make sure it’s an actual issue, and the game spiked again at 7gb without me doing anything.

After trying various things I nailed the issue down to Krowi’s Achievement Filter Auctionator, which I had updated earlier today yesterday.

EDIT: I mistakenly tested Krowi while Auctionator was still on, instead of testing them separate. I did Auctionator earlier and it seemed fine but the problem seems to take around 20 min to appear which I didn’t notice at first and incorrectly thought it was Krowi since I tested it second. It’s Auctionator tho, as the problem appeared again with it on but Krowi off. The game is fine now with Auctionator off.

If you have this addon, then it is the problem, if you don’t have it I don’t know what could be causing your ram spike.

Try switching from Dx11 to Dx12 or from 12 to 11, that has worked for me in the past when I had memory issues that I could not pin down to any specific addon.

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Addons can be resource hogs, especially those that constantly scan areas to update tooltips… like ATT, where it uses 600+MB from the get go.

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It is quite normal .unless you have a potatoe pc or if you are using lower preset with low resolution then it might take less .

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I find mine goes quite high when first loading a character, presumably because it’s activating all the assets etc I dunno, but then after 15 mins or so settled to a pretty low usage for the rest of the play through across all characters.

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There’s been loads of memory leak issues since the Goblin patch. Nobody really knows why.

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AI will fix it.

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How is it normal and what does RAM have to do with graphics?
I am running on max everything with 2560x1440, which obviously has nothing to do with RAM still.
Tons of addons is what causes huge RAM usage and I barely have any.