Questhelper may be dragging your system to it's knees.

After a comment in another thread about checking your GPU settings there was mention of Questhelper being a resource hog.

Recently my quad core pc (With only 2g memory) has been performing worse than before. It starts out okay at a session but degrades over time. The symptoms were freeze ups on any one of the 3 wow instances running, sometimes momentary sometimes lasting for quite a few seconds, other times requiring me to kill of an instance and restart.

I realised that it coincided with me upgrading questhelper on the 3 machines. Previously the routing routines had been exploding and quest helper wasn't function properly - I suspect the memory leak is in the routing routines.

So - Last night I hovered over my titan bar memory used for add ons and watched it climb and climb.

My fps on the main was sitting at about 25-30.

I figured enough was enough and disabled questhelper on my 3 accounts. What an amazing difference.

Smooth and unlaggy.

I installed carbonite instead to help with quests and this performs adequately so i'm sticking with that.

So if you are experiencing problems with poor performance and freeze ups try disabling quest helper.

Hmmm, i'm using questhelper on all 5 accounts on one PC ..
Haven't really noticed anything.

2.5ghz quadcore

I sure wish it worked for me as questhelper was my favourite add on of all time.

Although I never followed it's routing plans.


For me - disabling questhelper (and only questhelper) instantly resulted in smoother more stable play, If it's working for you stick with it.

i'm having the same problem here... memmory leak start with a couble of mb, after like 40 mins I got like 200 MB in use (Only quest Helper is using this...)

It's down to your RAM. Questhelper starts off using roughly 20-30mb ram (remember, x3 if your running 3 acccounts).. But as you pick up more and more quests, it continues to grow. After a couple of hours your looking at 100mb+ for each account. If you only have 2gb RAM in your machine, you'll be at the full 2gb limit because of it. A solution is to keep restarting your WoW sessions every so often, upgrade your RAM, or disable some other addons to compensate.

I use TourGuide which works as a great alternative to QuestHelper. Give it a look.