Dragon Isles overheating CPU / Graphics card

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Hey Everyone (apologies if this has been asked but can’t find an answer),

Wow runs really well on my system that is 10 times the requirements for the highest of settings when I play in any other area or zones other than dragon isles. Once I step into dragon isles, my computer starts to take off like a jet engine as all of the fans start running at full speed to cool down both my CPU and graphics card.

I’m not sure why its just dragon isles that does this but my current graphics card is a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. What have I done to try to correct this:

  • Updated all drivers for graphics card, computer, bios etc.
  • Capped off frame rate to 60 FPS for Max Foreground and also Background to 30 FPS and Target FPS to 30 FPS
  • Changed the display settings to the lowest possible

Its strange because I can run Baldur’s Gate 3 at max graphics and my fans never really kick on that hard and the temperatures never really raise past 65 degrees C. In WoW (only in dragon isles areas) it goes up to 75-80 degrees C.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know I’m willing to try almost anything. Thanks for your time.

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wow tends to run your cpu harder than your GPU - what cpu do you have and what temps does it hit.

75-80 isn’t a problem for a gpu, a bit higher than average but could possibly be improved just dusting out your case.

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You have no idea what your talking about wow shouldn’t be running systems into the ground when shadowlands had no issues

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oh i agree. not sure if you’re responding to the wrong thread or something.

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Thank you guys for your feedback.

So I was doing some digging into my system logs in event viewer and I saw that when Wow would run (regardless if in dragon isles or not) I would see a program I have installed for work start up in the background which is strange. It was eating most of my CPU. I uninstalled it (because I don’t need it anymore on my personal computer) and now with FPS set as stated above and everything on max settings my temp rarely goes above 60-65 even on the isles.

There are hiccups though when it does spin up but its for like a minute if that and then returns to normal. Tried it for a few hours last night and everything was good.

Anyway - thank you again for your help and hopefully that resolves it. Also side note - funny I have a MacBook M1 Pro that I’ve been using for when I need to write papers or code with and I put Wow on there for when i’m traveling just to do simple things like quest etc., and never had an issue with everything on max settings.

Anyway - heh thanks again for ya’lls time for viewing and for those responding. Have a great weekend!

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glad you found a fix - stuff like a background program interfering can be among the hardest things to figure out so hopefully that does it.

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I’ve been having these exact same problems. Except, my temps are even higher. Yet, everything I’ve tried doesn’t fix the issue at all.

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