WotLK is your client crashing in Dala and WG? Here's the solution!

[Cekunox]

Hi,

The app proposed on these forums to fix the crashes didnt work for me, but I found one that does and may do the same for you.


http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

just unpack the file, open the app and browse to your WoW folder and select WoW.exe to patch.
(if it doesnt work, your WoW.exe might be set to "read only", which means u can't edit/patch it. just rightclick WoW.exe, select properties and uncheck the "read only" box, then patch it)

That's it!

Enjoy!

[Parliamagne]

Thank you for this! I just arrived in Northrend for the first time on this server and I was getting client crash every 2-3 minutes in Dalaran. Apparently this is related to 32-bit client on a 64-bit OS and probably won't affect anyone that has 32-bit windows. (I'm guessing).

I found that in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms or Outland, wow.exe was never using more than 1Gb of RAM. When I got to Northrend, it started using a minimum of about 1.4Gb and would then spike up from there depending on a number of factors. Once it got over 1.5Gb of ram, the game would crash. After this patch, wow.exe is running north of 1.8Gb of ram in Dalaran with no crashes so far.

One note: for some reason my wow.exe was set to read only. Not sure if this was default with the client download. So when I ran this patch the first time, it failed to open the file, so I discarded it and looked for other solutions. Finally came here and found this post and tried again -- same error. Until I figured out wow.exe was read-only. Once I fixed that, it patched just fine.


This did fix my problem.

[Cekunox]

Thank you for this! I just arrived in Northrend for the first time on this server and I was getting client crash every 2-3 minutes in Dalaran. Apparently this is related to 32-bit client on a 64-bit OS and probably won't affect anyone that has 32-bit windows. (I'm guessing).

I found that in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms or Outland, wow.exe was never using more than 1Gb of RAM. When I got to Northrend, it started using a minimum of about 1.4Gb and would then spike up from there depending on a number of factors. Once it got over 1.5Gb of ram, the game would crash. After this patch, wow.exe is running north of 1.8Gb of ram in Dalaran with no crashes so far.

One note: for some reason my wow.exe was set to read only. Not sure if this was default with the client download. So when I ran this patch the first time, it failed to open the file, so I discarded it and looked for other solutions. Finally came here and found this post and tried again -- same error. Until I figured out wow.exe was read-only. Once I fixed that, it patched just fine.


This did fix my problem.

ah cool! thanks for mentioning this, i'll add it to the initial post. Glad to have helped dude. Have fun!

[rolan94]

This is my first forum post and I just wanted to say that this worked! I thought my laptop simply couldn't handle the number of people in Dalaran so I dreaded going there. Now it's my home! Thank you!!