I have a 4090 i9 14900K, running a 4K 240hz monitor with vsync (PG32UCDM). I’ve been experiencing FPS stutters in classic wow for at least the past 1 year and a half. I don’t have issues on any other games except for classic wow. I’m on the latest drivers, latest bios, latest everything.
The issue goes something like this, game is buttery smooth, but every x amount of seconds (anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds, i don’t really know) i’ll experience a complete freeze. Not only will my fps stutter but my mouse will freeze for .1 second then go back to normal
This makes the experience super annoying and prevented me from being able to enjoy wow classic. I bought a 60 day sub and didn’t even login at all and didn’t level in tbc because of this issue, it’s just so incredibly annoying.
I tried contacting blizzard support and they didn’t even pretend to try to help. Didn’t transfer the issue to developers so they can fix it, nothing.
So i’m left with nobody but the forum to ask for help. I’ve tried everything guys.. tried to play without vsync, with vsync, lowest settings, capping fps, nothing works.
I had those 10s hangs way way in the past for the original Wrath launch and it was because my 1 gb of RAM (lel) was capping out. Upgraded to 4 and game was playable again.
Check that your graphics card is actually selected in graphics options.. The “Default” setting may end up using your CPU’s on die graphics adaptor and that’s not gonna go well.
Manually select, this helped me with the same issue.
There is a bug with this game that can cause that, no, I don’t know what causes it too start either. I don’t want to jinx myself and have that happen on my desktop install either…I had this happen on my laptop though. Like you said, the FPS will drop from whatever your system is capable of, from 300 fps for example down to 30 fps and hang there a second then climb back up again…it will do this anywhere, even fishing in Azshara with nothing going on. The only thing that worked on my lap top was a full re-install of WoW. Forum posts will say the cause is all kind of things.
i say this this more of a intel cpu issue 14900K bet you never fixed the power targets or underclocked it or under volted it, is cute how you point at a gpu that cant get used by the TBC graphics that chip is known for cooking its self alive and sees more use then the GPU
now im not saying a 4090 cant do that either but its like what 5% utilized vs what 2 cores of that fireball 14900K reaching top clocks
Have you sent in your CPU to Intel for replacement yet?
Contact Intel and replace your 14900K if you built your PC yourself.
If you bought the PC from Dell, HP, Lenovo, ect, contact them and have them replace your CPU. They might try to give pushback, but Intel extended their warranty and instructed the PC builders to replace CPUs that they sold in their PC’s.
Their is a MAJOR bug with that generation of Intel CPUs that over volts the CPU despite the BIOS settings causing many PC’s to crash, and/or overheat with irreparable damage.
Intel released a software update but they also extended their warranty by 2 years, offered replacements, and instructed 3rd party vendors to offer replacements too.
There’s lots of articles about it. I’ll link just 2 of them. It took Intel several months to find the cause and start replacing CPUs.
I myself have been having these oddball stuttering issues lately as well. I’m running on Windows 11 with a 9060 XT 16Gb, a Ryzen 7 5700X, 32Gb of Ram, game is installed on my M.2 drive and I have solid internet. Updated drivers and BIOS, everything hardware wise is sound.. And yet, wow is the only game I play that has this issue
I have the same specs minus I’m playing on 165 hz monitor, and haven’t really had any issues like that on classic wow.
Retail I always get some fps drops in the capital city and an occasional lag spike when there is a ton of stuff going on at once.
One possible solution that worked for me in the past when I was having wow performance issues was that I went into the bios and disabled the intel turbo boost setting (or something like that). I’m not sure if that would help you or not, but doesn’t hurt to try.
It’s a setting that is supposed to dynamically adjust the processor speed I think to be more energy efficient, but it was causing me to have fps issues and crashes, which stopped once I disabled it.
Also as already mentioned, try swapping the direct x 11/12, and/or updating/disabling addons, if you haven’t yet.
14900k say less.
Bro got the most famously unreliable CPU in history, even with bios updates to microcode 0x12B and the others that came after tons of people still report instability from full on crashing over and over to CPUs just dying due to voltages.
It’s also worth noting that most of these issues are between the motherboard vendors and intel having poorly aligned voltage settings.
And that’s without going into if you had any crashes from the issues caused before 0x12B would also be a risk to the CPU essentially being on it’s final legs.
