Buggy memory usage?

Does anyone notice that GW's memory usage just keeps going up the longer you play? I'm asking this question because I recently started death-leveling charr. The first time, after about 12 hours or so, GW used around 2 gigs of ram, which was more than my computer could take, apparently. Everything lagged so bad, even after ctrl-alt-del'ing GW... that I just had to restart my computer. (Luckily I was able to reconnect.)

I also noticed that when you do a minimize->maximize GW cycle, a lot of memory seems to be cleared up. It can go all the way down to 5 KB of memory usage total, which is very nice, but if you don't keep cycling the GW window, memory usage goes back WAY up.

You had it minimized for that long didn't you? I think someone said before that GW saves everything that happens when it's minimized and then tries to unleash it (design flaw) when you maximize, causing severe problems on some systems. I know my comp dosen't do this at all so maybe it is only on some systems.

Now... I don't see how yours went down to 5KB unless it dumped all the textures and memory space and for a split second your character was just connected to the server but your computer stopped maintaining your actual map world. Because in reality, the maps you all play in are in your comp, not the server, just the connection is.

Probably a memory leak. As long as it's a slow leak, it causes no major harm. You try writing a few million lines of code without forgetting to free a malloc somewhere.

Personally I've never seen my GW use more than 400 megs of memory........

Leave it in the background in Windowed mode (not minimized) when you need to the use the computer for something else.

I've never had a problem running it on my laptop in this mode.

5KB ??!!??

Sounds like Windblows is swapping out the entire GW.exe process when you minimize.
but even this makes no sense because Guild Wars can't possibly be running utilizing only 5KB of RAM

Assuming you are describing events accurately my only suggestion would be to do a clean install of Windows because something seems seriously funky with the one you're running.

theirs no possible way gw.exe is only using 5kb of memory not possible anywhere

When minimized my gw uses 481,000 kb in windowed mode it uses 475,00kb not a great difference stays within it's normal range `Vista 32bit 4gb of ram(i know i don't get to use all the 4gb just 3.2