Patch 3.0 memory hog?

[Nolife]

Hey guys

Anyone else have problem running 5 WoW's on 1 computer after patch? For some reason i can start all 5 WoW's without problems, load 4 of them in game, but 5th freezes on load screen until i close 1 of the WoW's already loaded (if it didn't crash before that). Currently i have 3GB ram and even increased virtual memory size. Could this have something to do with my new craphics card? I upgraded my old Nvidia to Radeon 4850 when patch was released.

Pre-patch i could easily run 5 WoW's with 2GB ram.

[Nolife]

Meant to post this at "Support" section. Sorry about that. ^^

[Ualaa]

If you're stuck at the loading screen, without even getting into the game...

I'd guess its not enough ram.
Your video card is easily strong enough for five wow clients, especially the loading screen.

[wowphreak]

Did yeh just make it into outlands?

the halloween stuff increased memory/garphics usage a tad.

[Nolife]

All my toons are in 'the old world' and outside major citys, no addons atm.

Currently i've seen 2 different types of problems:
#1 After i get my 4th toon in game, i still have almost 1GB left on ram, but when i try to load 5th i get "Failed to read file..." error after awhile. I always wait for each WoW to load before starting with next one.

#2 Couple times even with only 4 WoW's running 1 of them freezes in load screen, BUT my toon IS in game, moving and jumping along others, i can hear Esc bring out game menu, etc. It only fails to show graphics for that particular window. This is why i was thinking it may have something to do with my gfxcard.

..but now as i'm writing this, for the first time after patch i was able to load all 5 wow's in game. Only thing i did differently was that i waited +5min after 4th was finished before attempting to load 5th. Any idea what could be wrong here? ^^

[Frosty]

I've noticed a drop in all 3 of my PCs performance after the patch..I'm praying it's just the Halloween crap though. :S

[Mirina]

My performance has gone to crap on my PC--2-boxing on it currently with 4G of RAM, a 8800GTS video card and a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo and I constantly freeze/lock-up at inopportune times.

Building a new PC and moving off of Vista tomorrow--I'm interested to see if it resolves the hell that has been my PC for the past couple weeks. The past 48-hours have been unbearable.

Oddly enough, my husband's PC is almost my exact same build (better RAM) and he's having no issues with 2-boxing each evening.

[pengwynman]

well guys my performance has actually gone up since 3.0 hit!

possibly due to the fact that i put vista 64 on and got 2GB more memory

[Hachoo]

I have not noticed a memory usage increase since 3.0.2... my WoWs are using around 260MB each (around 300 for my main window which is at a higher resolution). Even after going to shatt and playing for an hour its still around 280MB/wow and 320MB for the main window.

[phineas01]

How are/were you running 5 with 2GB? I just finished loading 4 to test my machine (which has 2GB of memory) and I'm sitting at around 90-95% memory usage and I've gone through and tweaked vista, stopped unnecessary process', etc.

edit: Nevrmind, read your post wrong. Does anyone know if it's even possible to run 5 with 2GB? My main seems to max at around 350mb with three alts sitting at just less than 200mb