It’s a mess, everytime I port my Mage to Org, it locks up for a few seconds, opening the Auction House same thing, I dread going to Org anymore
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Dx11 fixed it for me, but I’m having about 35% fps drop. For example, from 120 to 75ish.
Also I noticed that opening transmog page reduces fps. Doesnt matter if Dx11 or Dx12. For example im having 120 fps, opening transmog reduces it to 60 at first, then it goes up to 90 and stays there. When I close the window, it goes back to 120.
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This is regularly an issue for me as well. Turning my wow settings down to 7/10, and closing bnet in the background atleast makes the game playable (i always play two wows at once). However, when going to three wows, even on 1/10 settings, the game does exactly what the original post described! 1-2 year old parts (5950x 16core CPU, 48gb ram, and rtx 3060). I have gone as far as reinstalling windows. I have done ALL the recommended trouble shooting. Nothing has “fixed” it. Already looking to get a better GPU, otherwise I had given up awhile ago.
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Yeah this is still happening to me on multi PCs. Not sure what to do. At some point I am just going to shelf the game and come back later.
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This is miserable, will we see a fix at some point?
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I’m getting this or something similar CONSTANTLY and its absolutely a recent (this season only) issue. I will lose control of the game and it will just either black screen aside from numerical text for an excessively long time and then maybe come back slowly where weird different levels of texture pop in or the game just crashes entirely. I can’t enjoy content because this happens so often. Seems really likely to me this is a result of some UI change since they’ve been doing that so much in lately. I really need a fix to this or I’m going to stop playing and turn my sub off. I join a key and then after it starts this happens and the key bricks or I wipe a raid fight. Please blizzard I need help this is making the game unplayable.
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After a lot of trial and error, I’ve had three days of solid gameplay without issue after doing this:
- Made my entire WoW directory Not-Indexed in Win11
- Disabled GreyOnCooldown add-on
Okay, so after asking around and experimenting between DX11 and DX12, its definitely an issue with DX12.
People have been saying that its an issue with the newer versions of DX12 that is causing this re-rendering issue in the game.
Does anyone know a way to get an older version of DX12?
I think that would fix the problem for most people (I suspect).
I’ve had this issue (mostly alt-tab version) since beginning of TWW, and before the feb driver. Switching to DX11 reduces the severity and frequency, but does not fix it. Happens with no add-ons.
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The thing is the updates of dx12 have mostly driver side since 2021. Microsoft has done little to update the dx DLL files
This is happening to me now in MoP Classic. Never happened to me in Retail
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This wasn’t an issue till this patch… 11.2.5 for a lot of us
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It’s not just wow having issues with DX 12. The re rendering is a recover able driver crash.
Have any of you tried turning of ray tracing?
Step-by-Step Guide:
Launch World of Warcraft and log into the game.
Open the System Menu by pressing the Esc key on your keyboard.
Select “Graphics” from the menu options.
Scroll down the Graphics settings to find the “Compatibility Settings” section.
Uncheck the box next to “Optional GPU Features”.
Confirm the changes by exiting the menu.
This problem has been going on for a long time now, and there’s been no indication from Blizzard that they’re even aware of it. All of the advice given here has just been temporary workarounds to deal with the issue, not actually fix it.
This bug is ruining my game experience. I love collecting transmogs and making my character look perfect, but every time I open the transmog tab, the game starts re-rendering the screen, sometimes repeatedly. The only way I’ve found to effectively reduce the issue is to open the transmog UI in Durotar or some other old map.
When it was announced that Midnight would have a transmog UI revamp, the first thing I thought was, “What’s the point of having a better feature if it’s just going to break my game the same way?”
Here’s the thing: while it happens most often with the transmog UI, it’s not limited to it. It often happens without me even interacting with the game. It makes me wonder if this could also happen with the Housing UI…
And for those who think this is a minor inconvenience because “If it only happens with transmogs, then it’s fine,” it’s already happened to me in the middle of a fight in Manaforge Omega HC. For a healer, being frozen for 5 to 10 seconds in the middle of an HC fight is a death sentence for someone…
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Still happening… countless posts on US and EU forums. No blue response no hotfix deployed. This has been going on since May/June, and somehow we got an entire season patch since with no fix or even mention of it.
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Maybe and that’s just a maybe, it’s actually an Nvidia problem and not caused by something wrong with wow.
Has anyone actually taken it to Nvidia to look at?
And blizzard do not need to respond and won’t respond unless they need further information, that’s it.
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I’d lean toward this issue coming from something outside of WoW. The culprit is likely drivers, security softwares, other apps using hardware acceleration, overlays or Windows itself, or some kind of mixure of those. You’d be surprised how many apps will try to use hardware acceleration and overlays…
You’d also be surprised how often something simple and seemingly unrelated, like a network or USB driver, can cause serious gaming performance issues or crashes.
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My bet is on hardware acceleration in other apps. Like Pawg said, seems like everything uses it these days. Chrome, Discord, Steam, all game launchers (including Bnet), Spotify, a few antivirus suites, etc. The list goes on and on.
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Has nothing to do with ray tracing as I have had this issue since 11.1.7 and I have a GTX 1660S (doesn’t have ray tracing to begin with).
I agree. I always had some minor freezes in Dornogal, but since the start of Season 2, I’ve been getting freezes during combat, like in M+ and PvP arenas. Sometimes they only last 1–2 seconds, but other times they go on for several seconds, completely locking up the screen.