Ram usage of WoW

[Cloudy]

Hi,

all of my clients are using about 600-900mb RAM. Is there any way to lower the ram usage?
Graphics are as low as they can be and i just use 3 small addons - mail/repair/chat.

Couldn't find anything here.

I know that w7 gives the program enough ram to let i run better...but if i add more ram, windows gives wow also more ram.
In cata wow only used ~250mb ram in windows 7 but i think (that was my pirox time) i could minimize wow, so the ram usage was lower.

Any ideas?

 

[bambam922]

You are doing well.
My WoW.exe use about 1.2gig of memory, though i use a lot of addons.

 

[s.s.tripwire]

dunno if it will lower ram usage, but someone on this forum mentioned that you can choke your FPS ingame by typing the following

/console maxfps10

the number at the end can be set to whatever, I choke my down to 10 to keep my computer from working too hard. before my fan would always be going, but now with my three clients my computer barely makes any noise. its a win, even if thats the only benefit

 

[Cloudy]

frames doenst lower the ram usage. frames are rendered by the graphics chip und little bit by cpu. but 99% are done by the graphic card

 

[Redhood]

You are doing well.
My WoW.exe use about 1.2gig of memory, though i use a lot of addons.

Same also 1,1gig+ over here, though i also like my addons and i put my max fps at 70 but i'm only running 1 client so in the end it's all fine

 

[Niv]

I run a VMWare setup here, each BNet in its own VM, two accounts per BNet. Each VM is given 3 gig RAM. Each WoW consumes 500 to 700 mb in hot state (around 5mb of it is for addons, as the game says), however, ram usage spikes up during loading screens and in big cities. I used to give 2gig to every VM, but that made windows (win7 pro with pretty much everything disabled) start to swap to disk from time to time. Maybe its a VMWare issue, but that killed not only the overloaded but all other VMs too, performance wise.
My conclusion is: 1gig per WoW is pretty much okay.

Come on, ram is dirt cheap, plan accordingly and don't buy the cheapest mainboard on which you cant put much of it.

 

[GIVEMEANAME]

usually 900mb give or take for me also;