Random times the graphics flicker all weird.
Anyone know what would cause this? Doesn’t happen in Retail or any game besides Classic WoW.
The sky around Blackrock Mountain, shadows in Feralas, shadows in Org if I am standing near torches.
I’ve gone through every graphics setting, old drivers, new drivers, disabled all addons, tried direct X 11, tried turning shadows to low, etc. Nothing works.
I did find old threads about other people having this problem with newer graphics cards.
Is this just a classic WoW issue?
classic game is just old dude. i see faint white lines sometimes. it is what it is. 
Anybody have this issue at all?
Yes. I have no idea what’s causing it either.
I assumed it was a faulty cable or some connection, but everything I’ve tried hasn’t fixed it.
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Happens a lot in SM:Graveyard for me - Turned off Ray Tracing and it fixed itself
Oh I’ll have to try that thanks.
your cpu and gpu fine? all drivers updated to most recent version?
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Happens a lot around Blackrock Mountain mainly.
Yep. It happens for me when I’m dead, and running near water, the water is glitched.
I was catching the boat to ratchet today, a troll character was constantly flickering when the camera was panned in a certain way.
It was happening all the way to wrath/late BC I think.
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Ok yeah so this has me believing it’s the game.
It’s def only when you pan the camera to a certain spot.
Last night at Thorium Point the sky behind BRM would go from black to bright purple randomly if I panned the camera to a certain spot. It would flicker from black to purple over and over until I turned the camera a tiny bit.
your GPU is probably dying.
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Well how come I can open Red Dead 2 and play on ultra without issues?
I’ve also played Stalker 2 recently, POE 2, and hopped on Retail to see if there were issues and none of them have it.
Just Classic.
Also, it’s only specific zones/areas. Org and around Blackrock mountain are the big ones, as well as Feralas.
my screen flickers like crazy in some areas and always after an honorable kill it’s just a trash game
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i don’t know if that’s the same issue, but i was able to fix heavy flickering of my interface and the world map by going to the ingame graphic settings and turning maximum fps ON.
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A necro to help other players fix potential hardware issues, judges?
The judges say it is allowed, appreciated and award you a <3.
It fixed itself when I got a new PC
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1 year later, the necrolord got me.
With the new PC did you get a new monitor?
Is it when you have the camera angle at a funny angle to look round corners?
If so that is a wackadoodle issue with all versions of wow engine.
For me its fairly repeatable on my 60hz monitor when I am dual boxing it uses HDMI
My main monitor is Gsync 240hz and uses the modern direct video cable or whatever its called and has no issues.
I have a 2009 laptop that I use on trips to gamr with and it runs wow fine, and never has this problem. Its display is 60hz.
I had never thought about what could be involved here, the only thing I can think of is maybe its bad behavior between how wow interacts with HDMI, because this happes on retail also.
I can test WOW on my lappy later with an SVGA CRT that is in the basement later; and deep down I am aware it will anger me because I know how butter smoooth CRT is for gaming.
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Screen flickering and artifacts are very interesting because tons of things can cause them
The go to culprits are easiest/best to do first as the other suggested and you have done; drivers, older ones, newer ones, windows system updates or roll backs (guess when we all move to Linux this won’t be a problem xd) disabling/enabling certain things in games. Sometimes features just get wonky and a simple restart will fix things, e.g. nvidea filters not showing up in game.
I’ve had some large weird graphical issues that would show itself on certain resolutions & not others, certain TVs/monitors and not others;
After troubleshooting and replacing the computer parts, it fixed it. But the main perpetrator of the artifact-ing and all this is something I don’t know, it seemed to stem from system instability around some PC parts that did not work well together centered around the power. Changing PSU&mobo&cpu & maybe computer case at the time solved it. Wasn’t a graphics card problem.
I’ve had mediocre/bad lucky with PSUs overall, too. Fortunately never computer melt or anything though. ‘mainly them dying. ‘really make me wonder~