[Crash] Unit limit

[Nevanii]

Quite a weird question but is there a limit of units that Warcraft can handle? I'm using Grimoire so there's no world edit limit, but i'm asking if there's a specified number of units that Warcraft's located RAM can handle? I've played on friend's map that has 2000 units placed and around 10000 doodads. And when we played in 4 players everything worked fine, but when next time we played in 5 players game crashed due to RAM issue. So i'm wondering if we got over the unit limit due to 5th player playing and creating units?

 

[Nichilus]

Can't say I know if there is any limit or if the limit is just given by user's RAM size.

But I think the issue is that you have 2000 units placed in the map
Is that even necessary? Can't you manage to create units over time via triggers when needed?
I think warcraft itself is not build to handle this many units at once (for example there will be pathing issues when units try to move).

 

[Chaosium]

I remember maps like Footman War and the likes where you'd have hundreds and hundreds of units on the map, up the the point that they just stood there doing nothing because the game couldn't process so many orders given at the same time, you should lower these numbers anyway or troubles are bound to happen eventually

 

[Nevanii]

Thank you for answers! I'll lower the number or just create them with triggers over time, like Nicholas suggested!

 

[Pyrogasm]

As Chaosium said: pathfinding is your real bottleneck here. With too many units on the map, wc3 unit pathfinding breaks down and they just choose to not move at all which sucks.