3D Acceleration

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Since prepatch, I am getting DCd and the following error msg is displayed, “World of Warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration.” Sometimes it freezes everything and I can’t even bring up Task Manager and am forced to literally unplug my computer. Is this a Blizz thing or a graphics card thing? Mine is a GeForce 5060Ti. You can imagine the issue this causes in the middle of a raid! Help, please.

DriverVersion Name
32.0.15.9186 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Host Name: DESKTOP-ROQUOBU
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Home
OS Version: 10.0.26200 N/A Build 26200
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free
Registered Owner: Windows User
Registered Organization:
Product ID: 00325-80184-11399-AAOEM
Original Install Date: 2/21/2025, 3:19:49 AM
System Boot Time: 2/10/2026, 5:19:48 AM
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: MS-7B48
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~3696 Mhz
BIOS Version: American Megatrends Inc. 2.40, 3/8/2018
Windows Directory: C:\WINDOWS
System Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume1
System Locale: en-us;English (United States)
Input Locale: en-us;English (United States)
Time Zone: (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
Total Physical Memory: 32,728 MB
Available Physical Memory: 21,344 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 34,776 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 20,048 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 14,728 MB
Page File Location(s): C:\pagefile.sys
Domain: WORKGROUP
Logon Server: \DESKTOP-ROQUOBU
Hotfix(s): 4 Hotfix(s) Installed.
[01]: KB5066128
[02]: KB5054156
[03]: KB5074109
[04]: KB5071142
Network Card(s): 2 NIC(s) Installed.
[01]: Realtek RTL8811AU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Connection Name: Wi-Fi
Status: Media disconnected
[02]: Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller
Connection Name: Ethernet
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server:

Virtualization-based security: Status: Running
Required Security Properties:
Available Security Properties:
Base Virtualization Support
UEFI Code Readonly
Mode Based Execution Control
Services Configured:
Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity
Services Running:
Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity
App Control for Business policy: Enforced
App Control for Business user mode policy: Off
Security Features Enabled:
Hyper-V Requirements: A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

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I noted this in another thread.

Try doing a ddu removal of the drivers, then a full install of the Nvidia driver if uninstalling the windows update doesn’t work.

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It’s happening to me and I’m still running windows 10 on an older laptop. I don’t know what blizzard did to make Nvidia freak out like this.

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How old? The system requirements increased with the Midnight prepatch.

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2018 gaming laptop.
This one, specifically:

newegg(dot)com/asus-zenbook-15-6-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-intel-core-i7-7700hq-fhd-16gb-memory-512-gb-pcie-ssd/p/N82E16834235026?Item=N82E16834235026

I do strore WoW on an external hard drive and have some things boosting it. My “frankenlaptop” setup until i can afford to build a new PC. (not happening any time soon with ram prices going up)

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This GPU is the absolute minimum for the new specs, so make sure you’re turning down graphics settings.

External storage isn’t supported. You can get it working (obviously), but it can cause issues.

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Thank you. I really appreciate you looking into this for me. I updated a few things and I’ve not had issues for a couple days. Hopefully it remains that way.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. What I ended up doing was to delete all NVIDIA gameplay overlays. Left only the control panel file and graphics card app. Stopped auto update, will do manually. Also changed to DirectX 11. That was nearly a week ago and so far so good.

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