That sounds like an opinion. I’m referring to the data in Pawg’s reply.
I’m having GPU driver crashes as well and have for several months…
7800x3D
7900xtx
32gb ram
1000w titanium power supply
I’ve tried everything dx11,12, limiting my fps to 144 (GPU never got above 70c on the hotspot).
Not a heat issue nothing gets near tjmax.
Something’s up and AMD and blizzard are just dragging their feet … I only play season of discovery and it still happens randomly. I’ve sent every crash report to AMD for months and months with nothing fixing it.
The rtx 4080 super comes out in a few weeks I guess all us amd people are gonna have to buy another 1k GPU to just play wow or get a lesser Nvidia card…anyone else thinking conspiracy possibly will h blizzard and Nvidia hahaha joking.
But it’s super annoying I have such a high speed PC and can’t get it to not crash the GPU driver in a 20 year old game…and none of the blizzard reps seem willing to look into it at all…
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AMD has a history of slow to fix Driver issues with games. While i am a big fan of AMD CPU’s. AMD has a bad track record all the way back to when the GPU division was Radeon of having compatibility issues with games.
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If anyone has the AMD Catalyst or the AMD Adrenalin software. I’ve found that one needs to turn all of this extra stuff off. For a while I was not able to do so Until I submitted a ticket with AMD and asked that they create a stand alone vid card drive for my system. The last windows update did so But the windows driver was errored I was able to get just the driver by updating driver fir the AMD site. Not running the Catalyst or Adrenalin has made a big difference my my systems performance.
My solution to this problem, after having one of my characters die in Hardcore thanks to this bug with my 5800X3D and a 7900XTX pc:
I made a partition big enough to fit another WoW install on my Games SSD, and installed Nobara Linux onto it. I installed the battle.net client via Lutris and then installed WoW Classic from that.
I have not had one crash since this using this method for a month now. I know installing a whole new OS and dual booting with Windows is an extreme solution for some but hey, it works! I use WowUp for addon management and it works just fine.
I already suggested blaming AMD dude. Do you have anything useful to add or what?
https ://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-2340-01-10-preview
Allegedly fixed in this driver. Though I initially had no issues with this on my 6700 XT, I had a manual clock fail and crash my computer, and subsequently bricked my driver. Reinstalling to the standard reference driver causes this error to manifest quite quickly, but the above preview driver, which is the official AFMF sanctioned driver for both 6- and 7000 series cards seems to work fine. I redid my manual tuning to make it more stable, and the issue has not returned.
Additional tweak I did was disabling MPO, since some people recommended it, but I can’t say if that had any specific impact on avoiding this error.
Do remember to allow WoW to rebuild its shader cache.
The things that have helped me so far is:
- Don’t use HDMI Audio from the video card
That seemed to solve my Wow crashing issues on both by 7900 XTX and my 7600 cards on Windows 11 (in 3 different AMD systems), but then while resizing videos with my 7900 XTX and using a web browser (since GPU acceleration is enabled), I started getting crashes again. This is what helped this time.
Go into Display, then click Graphics. Click Change default graphics settings, then turn off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling and reboot.
Looking at Task Manager for the GPU, when HWAG scheduling was enabled, only Copy was getting about 14% utilized. When I turned it off and rebooted, 3D started being utilized up to 34% and Copy at about 11%. Using a web browser at the same time hasn’t been an issue either.
Also, when playing Wow on Ubuntu using Lutris, Wine, and Mesa drivers, I haven’t experienced any crashes.
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I’ve been having this issue since I updated my AMD drivers, which is terrifying in hardcore.
I’ve tried swapping to DX11, but DX11 on my system has horrible performance in classic, with constant really low FPS drops/stutters.
I’ve found that one needs to disable the AMD catalyst/adrenalin as this tend to drain the system. Several times I’ve requested that AMD release just the driver for the video cards and NOT include this catalyst adrenalin software. Plus I would check to see if you have the original driver from AMD and NOT the updated driver from the Microsoft auto update.
You already have that option in the installer… There are three options to pick from when installing: Full, minimal and driver only.
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You can use the new AFMF feature to smooth out the frames in dX 11 .
^ I got several crashes with this on in DX 11 so beware
That’s just adding more likely instability on top of the current mess. It’s a brand new feature that isn’t being specifically tested with WoW.
No, AMD needs to not release broken drivers.
AMD adrenalin settings:
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everything diabled
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make sure game WoW is set to Defaul Global Experience
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I have Freesync Premium enabled with my monitor, otherwise everything is turned off
all these settings plus running game in DX11. I can change my gfx settings to w/e in game and I’ve had zero crashes since my last report in on Jan 7th and I play the game everyday for ~4-8 hours.
ddu your driver and try the windows update driver, no need for dx11.
I have the same issue too.
I have to play wow from my laptop or otherwise it just crashes randomly.
I’m playing WOTLK
I have a 7900 xtx. This is the only game where this happens to me, but it’s very frustrating. I tried reinstalling windows and still the same issue.
It seems related to the card clocking too high at some points and crashing. it happened to me today in a vanilla dungeon
wow staff please consult with amd they are aware of the long load times but havent said anything abouit the crashes
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so i went back to newest driver and using dx12 with 7900xtx. rx eco mode has got me 0 crashes so far.
It is not your display driver, you need to update your motherboard chipset and other related drivers. Obviously you should already have updated your display driver.
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