Hi there. I am new to WotLK as of this year. I have had a great time thus far playing with a friend who is from the old original days on WoW, but I am about at my wits end here trying to get the game to be playable again. I am ready to give up on the game as I dont have the time to dedicate to troubleshooting it more than I invested today.
I will start by saying, I had never experienced a single game crash or had any issues with playing until this recent content drop. Over the last few days, I noticed highly populated areas being less “smooth, or responsive” and taking longer to load in than before. No big deal.
Then i get what I notice to be some occasional skips that are short lived… also no big deal… until the screen seems to freeze for atleast 3 seconds, and then gameplay resumes… meanwhile video on my monitor was frozen for all of those 3 seconds while my group is still playing and getting wiped. I am a level 80 disc priest for heals in my group, I cant have 3 seconds of not seeing whats going on, someone could die in that period, or worst… we all die and cause entire wipes. This has been my gaming experience progression since the new content drop… that is UNTIL LAST NIGHT.
Starting 10/15/2023 I started getting game crashes. The screen will freeze mid action and I can see character model frozen. (I could be running around, jumping, standing still, fishing, casting a spell, you name it and it doesn’t matter) but I can still hear the audio from things around me such as if a fish got hooked, then the screen blacks out and I will either get to resume gameplay 5 or so seconds later, or the game will then crash and give me an ERROR#132 message stating: The instruction at ‘0x00007ff83fefdb15’ referenced memory at ‘0xffffffffffffffff’. The memory could not be “read”. It may be worthwhile to note, I have noticed that my discord will consistently crash when the freeze occurs. EVERY TIME.
Now… after running into this issue, I uninstalled the game, deleted Bnet, reinstall Bnet, reinstalled the game, and hoped it would be better… What do I experience? THE SAME EXACT CRASHING AND ERROR MESSAGES.
Now… I decided to wipe my computer, reinstall windows 10, reinstall drivers, the whole 9 yards… Reinstall bnet, get WotLK again, and STILL THE SAME ERROR MESSAGES.
The game has become completely unplayable for me since this new content drop as I crash within 10 minutes of running around in game.
I can simply recreate the game crash just by walking around dalaran spamming nameplates off and on for 5 or less minutes and the game crashes. I can just sit there in Dalaran and the game crashes. These are not things that should lead to a client crash.
I have spent upwards of 8 hours today working to troubleshoot this and get the game playable before an ICC 10M that my group had planned for tonight that I am now barred out of participating in. I would love to get some help with this, as I am not the wisest for finding solutions or going through and checking logs to really see what the issue is and get to the bottom of this.
AGAIN… to recap… I ENTIRELY REINSTALLED WINDOWS AND REINSTALLED ALL MY DRIVERS AND UPDATED EVERYTHING, STILL SAME ISSUE OCCURING. I EVEN TRIED THE DIRECTX11 v 12 AND STILL GET CRASHES.
If anyone can help, it’d be greatly appreciated, otherwise I will be giving the game up at this point as it simply wont run on my PC without crashing.