I can confirm that I’ve not seen the texture flickering issue since I “downgraded” to these exact drivers.
I can confirm that the roll back of drivers alleviates this issue. I did this roll back a couple of weeks back and from reports from guildees the most recent drivers have not fixed this issue. I’m running a 1080ti on 457.51 drivers.
Although I do get floor textures disappearing in the main boss fight of theatre of pain, hard to dodge stuff when 2 thirds of the floor disappears, but that could be unrelated to this driver issue.
It is sad that these 2 companies can’t address these issues sooner.
I’m glad I don’t suffer from epilepsy as this flashing was horrendous in Ardenweald and I can only imagine someone suffering a seizure from this.
I have been experiencing this issue since launch, and while the game is not unplayable, it is not an enjoyable time when in the open world. Aredenweald and Bastion are the worst, but it has occurred in the other 3 zones as well. There are one or two posts in the NVIDIA forums, but no mention of progress toward a fix, outside of the “manually roll back your drivers” fix found by the community.
Please escalate and assist, Blizz. I’m loving the expansion so far, but given the time and money I put into it, I shouldn’t have to trouble shoot my own driver issues when there is a larger fix needed!
I commented on both of the aforementioned threads on NVIDIA forums this morning, after finding this post and referenced it there as well:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/426454/flickering-textures-world-of-warcraft/2976063/
Thank you.
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If it’s any help to the devs, this used to happen to me in Nazmir in BfA, but only at night. (My guess was the texture memory was full.)
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Not exactly tech smart here so how do I go about rolling back my driver? Thanks in advance
Having this same issue - causing a headache in the back of my eyes when I see the glitch colours now. Using a Mac laptop so the Nvidia isn’t the issue… help Blizzard or community please.
OK, Have had this issue for a while. Tried driver roll back etc. So here is what I did. Have been putting off upgrading Win 10 to 20H2 forever. So I upgraded, and that fixed it. Also allowed turning on ray tracing (must have a compatible grfx card) All fixed and ray tracing is a nice bump to graphics.
Nope. Still flashy crap.
Switching to DX11 worked for me as well (direct X11)
This only began happening for me when I enabled the XMP profile on my RAM (increased speed from 2400 to 3200). I’ve got a RTX 3070. Had no problems before then.
More than just an nVidia problem. I’m playing a laptop with onboard Intel UHD graphics while I wait for a new gaming pc to arrive, and this issue is obscene both in Oribos (center ring) and Ardenweald, and to a lesser extent in Bastion. Downgrading to DirectX 11 seems to be working (for now), but now the game looks extra bad on this potato.
Two months now with no fix? Do they not want people to actually be able to play the game without seizures?
Month #3 now apparently with these same issues, no patches, updates or fixes yet. Im about 10 hours into WOW, back from years of not playing. Gonna try rolling back my drivers to see if that fixes the issues.
Blizzard still hasnt fixed the problem. Months later. Even after acknowledging it months ago. So now we all have to suffer and run an older driver version because Blizzard is being lazy and not updating their stuff for the new drivers like they were supposed to do.
Nvidia gave Blizzard devs the drivers months in advance before making them public. Offered their own developers to work with Blizzard if they had issues. But Blizzard proved yet again that they can just be lazy and ignore it because who cares if they screw over the consumer.
Why people suck up to Blizzard and defend them any chance they can is beyond me. I would be pestering them about this every damn time they had a conference or public event. Be it PVP tournaments or MDI or Blizzcon. Why do they continuously act like this is a free to play game?
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I can confirm that the driver roll back appears to have fixed the flickering issues. It took about an hour to complete the process of rolling back the driver and if you are not very tech savvy and don’t have at least basic knowledge of computers I would suggest that you avoid doing this and make enough noise until this issue is resolved, otherwise I will do my best to describe exactly how and what I did in order to roll back the driver. I did all this with the information from previous post on this thread (shot out to blackthorn and everyone else for being helpful). I’m running a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 on Windows 10 with 64bit for reference.
1st - Go to Google and search for “Nvidia driver version 457.51” you want to be sure you are downloading directly from an NVIDIA web address and not a 3rd party web site in order to minimize risk.
The correct driver you are looking for has the following specs -
Driver Version:457.51 – WHQL
Release Date:Wed Dec 02, 2020
Operating System:Windows 10 64-bit
Language:English (US)
File Size:619.44 MB
Make sure that you download the driver for your proper operating system if you are not running Windows 10 64bit and also make sure you know where the file is being downloaded. C:/Users/”Name”/Downloads by default if using Windows 10.
2nd - Right Click on the windows icon at the very bottom left of your screen and click on search. If you have a search bar on your tool bar you can use that as well, or hit the windows key and use the search bar there but ultimately you want to search for and open up the “Control Panel”. Once inside the control panel go down to where it says “Uninstall a program” right under the “Program” icon and then click on “Uninstall a Program”. This should bring up a list of programs installed on your computer. Scroll down until you see “Nvidia Graphics Driver” with some numbers behind it. Do not worry about any other NVIDIA program, as you ONLY need to right click on the “Nvidia Graphics Driver” and then click uninstall/change and proceed to uninstall the driver but read below before doing this.
READ BEFORE YOU UNINSTALL- If you are following these steps you will want to print this post or book mark this web page to get back to it as you will need to restart your computer in order to finish the uninstall process. ALSO, your computer graphics will look very bad after the restart but don’t panic as that is normal without running a graphics driver.
After clicking uninstall, NVIDIA will ask you “Do you really want to remove this software?” Click “Uninstall” and proceed. Once the uninstall process is complete click on “Restart Computer Now” in order to fully remove your current driver.
3rd - Once your computer has restarted, navigate to the older version of the driver that you downloaded in step 1. C:/Users/Name/Downloads by default. Right click on the driver and click “Open”. You will be asked if you wish to allow this app to make changes to your computer, select “Yes” and proceed. Then a prompt will ask you to specify the folder where the files are to be saved and it should by default have the correct path name ready to go. Mine was “C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\457.51\Win10-DCH_64\International” then click OK. It will check for system compatibility, agree to the Terms of Service by NVIDIA, then highlight the “Express” installation bubble and click Next. Once the installation is complete you can close the NVIDIA window and your good to go.
If you wish to make sure you did everything correctly or Update back to the most current driver, simply navigate to your “Device Manager” the same way you got to the control panel in step 2. Either by right clicking on the windows icon at the very bottom left of your screen and clicking search, or using the search bar on your tool bar, or by hitting the windows key and using the search bar there. Just search for “Device Manager” Once in the Device Manager, Double click on and expand the “Display Adapters” icon and you will see your video card icon. From here you can either, or…
….If you wish to upgrade your driver back to the most recent driver, right click on the video card icon and click on “Update Driver”. You can also go the NVIDIA website and scan and update to the latest drivers from there. You can also use Nvidia GeForce Experience if you have that installed on your computer.
……If you wish to know the version of the drivers you are currently running, right click on your video driver icon and click on “Properties” and the click on the “Driver” tab at the top of the window. Here you will see all your current driver information.
Hope this helps.
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The problem with your argument is that Nvidia did NOT give the drivers to Blizzard devs months in advance. Maybe a few days in advance, since Nvidia was still working on making the drivers until then. Also, Nvidia has already claimed responsibility for the error, and still has not fixed it in their driver updates since the issue was detected. You can check on the Nvidia site under their list of known issues, and it doesn’t affect only WoW.
Not even remotely true.
Same thing happened with Microsoft multiple times as well. They also came out publicly and took responsibility, even though it wasnt their fault they just took responsibility anyways and said they should have done better job training and teaching other companies. The other companies dev teams were just lazy and didnt want to change stuff in the hopes Microsoft would do their job for them. Same thing going on with Nvidia. Blizzard hoping they can scrape by and just get someone else to fix their stuff instead of fixing it themselves because they know people like you will jump to defend them without having a clue about it. In the end we, the ones actually paying Blizzard, suffer.
Seriously, why do people keep thinking that companies work in silos and that when WE the consumer get stuff thats when other companies get it too?! You honestly think big companies that the others RELY on to move product get stuff only when its finished?! I mean…even we consumers get a Beta of WoW months before it comes out, sometimes even an alpha months before others get Beta…but yet with other stuff its just days and they wait till its finished product?!
You don’t seem to understand the concept of “Their product, their responsibility”. If I made something for mass use, and it didn’t work with something else that has been around much longer, then it is my responsibility to make sure it works correctly with that other product if it is supposed to. It isn’t the other companies responsibility to make sure my product works with theirs.
Oh really? So if you were to say code something in visual studio, then microsoft sends you a message saying they will be updating visual studio in a few months and some stuff will not be supported in the new patch and gives you instructions on how to make the changes and a contact if you have trouble…and you just ignore it, close your eyes and hope for the best…you going to blame microsoft because your product is broken?
lmao…good luck with that. also…tell me how that strategy is going for flash developers.
At that point, you couldn’t blame them as they made the effort to inform you of said change for THEIR product. If you fail to do your due diligence to fix any issues with your product at that point, it is all on you. That is the difference between THEIRs and YOURs. In your scenario, Microsoft, which has been around longer, would be the equivalent of Blizzard, and you would be the equivalent of Nvidia. Since you don’t seem to get that Nvidia has to support their product, and think Blizzard needs to change around decades worth of coding to work with a new driver, I will no longer respond to you.
ROFLMAO…
you think Blizzard is bigger than Nvidia?! ROFLMAO!!!
Im guessing this whole pretending to know about stuff works for your parents and grandparents huh? HAHA. You may be able to fool them, but you seriously think you fool others with that?
Let me know how those decade old games are running these days without emulators…guess they should just demand companies work with their outdated stuff. How is that going for Sierra and police quest these days? lmao!
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I don’t understand how Blizzard keeps updating their code and graphics engine, making WoW not work or run very poorly on older PCs that used to run it just fine, yet they require many, many users to use out-of-date-by-multiple-releases video drivers.