Description of issue:

So the other night, I started playing at about 3 PM MST, Primarily waiting around Shirogane and Limsa Lominsa for Party Finder parties for Anabaseios: The Twelfth Circle (Savage), and over the many hours spent waiting and raiding, there was no issue. Task manager displayed a roughly 35-45% utilization of RAM (32 GB total). Then, a friend got online at roulghly 8 PM, and the two of us queued repeatedly into the Fall Guys event. the first indication I had that there was a problem was the game mid run would lock up and completely freeze for secconds at a time, and then resume like nothing was wrong. Happened once or twice at first, but each time came more swiftly then the last. during P12S, the RAM FFXIV was utilizing was roughly 2-3 GB, but when I checked it after about the third lockup, FFXIV was using a whopping 20 GBs of RAM! I decided I'd try to do another run, and it locked up, only this time I lost connection with the server. When I closed out and reloaded FFXIV, My Ram Utilization was back down to 24%, almost 75% of my RAM Freed Up by closing out of FF.

At this point, I reloaded, and we ran a few more runs. I noticed that, when I logged in this time, and was able to move around in the collaboration area, I started at 39% and after 3 to 5 more runs, my RAM had hit 45%. It did not go down from there, and instead slowly climbed from there. My friend logged off for the night as it was approaching 1 AM MST at that time, and I left my character Idle in the new Blunderville area, watching my RAM Climb to 50% Utilization. Once again, I closed FFXIV, but this time for the night as I too needed to head to bed. RAM Utilization dropped back to 25% utilization immediately upon FFXIV being closed once again.

There was no issue within Anabaseios 12 Savage, but Blunderville seems to have a Memory Leak. My friend did not experience this, either.