I use an EVGA 3080 TI Hybrid. I was forced to upgrade to 535.98 driver by Diablo4. But when I came back to WoW, holy cow the FPS was dropping like crazy and micro stutters everywhere - there’s just something going on with that 535.98 driver. I was also seeing some minor artifacting in Diablo4, which I sort of expected but oh well.
Anyway, what worked for me to fix the FPS in WoW was to totally uninstall the 535.98 driver (I’m lazy I just use the add/remove program of Win10), removed the retail\Cache and retail\WTF folders from WoW, install the 528.49 driver, reboot several times and finally WoW is back to normal and is butter smooth.
Really hoping Nvidia is working on this because this is just nuts, DLSS 3 is not worth tanking a game for and why the hell Blizzard is forcing it is also insane. Fix your crap people!
I have the same exact issue. Used to sit around 100-144 FPS regardless of the city, with an 10700K and RTX 3080, 3440x1440P max settings. Updated to latest Nvidia drivers, 535.98, last night before going to bed. Woke up, launched WoW, and my FPS is sitting around 20-30 in cities and 60 FPS in M+ dungeons. When a lot of mechanics are happening on boss fights, my frames stutter very badly. Another issue I noticed is that my GPU normally runs around 50-55C under load. Today, the fans spun quite fast and my GPU was running around 75-80C. Using DDU to remove, and reinstalling the older version to see if the it fixes it. Will update shortly.
I found out that the driver reset my WoW Graphics to Ultra and set Max Foreground FPS to 0 and enabled it. May want to check that out as I went from 7 fps to my regular 60 FPS.
Hey I just remembered an issue I encountered last October with Nvidia drivers doing the same thing… If you are using EVGA Precision X1, or MSI Afterburner, check your power slider. The driver update is locking your GPU power slider to 26%… move it back to 100% and you are good to go… the driver itself is not the issue, the issue is having one of those GPU edit/monitor programs running at the same time you do the driver update.
Ooof… Those da’gone 3rd party apps always up to no good! But be careful not to post this in the big stutter thread, people might actually realize that some issues are being caused by things outside of the game. They’ll want to clutch their pearls tightly and insist that it’s the game causing all the problems.
But for real though, good catch. I’ve seen control overlap issues like this before and they always end up being one of the last things you’d expect. 26% power would have you running the game like you were using a GPU from 4-5 generations ago lol…
I thought it was just me, but I’m glad I came here. I checked and I have the 358.98 update as well. I’m a complete nub at this though and I’m afraid of screwing something up - can someone walk me through real fast how to roll back my driver? I’d like to be able to tank on my monk again without my game becoming a slideshow.
That is a good thing to remember, as I do run EVGA Precision X1. Sadly though, that wasn’t my problem. Since my original post, I have had to reinstall 535.98 driver 3 times. Then there were some updates on D4 and since then, for the past week, I’ve been running “smooth” (4k @60hz). Here’s hoping it wasn’t the hardware/driver and just something D4 was doing that was corrupting everything.