Frame rates

[Wallawalla-arugal]

Anyone else having frame rate issues since patch?

[Baccon-the-forgotten-coast]

The keyring is still hot, they just got forging it. Might take a while to cool down so your PC might overheat for a day or 2 from it.

[Valaine-grobbulus]

Yes, haven’t tried my desktop yet but on my crappy laptop i used to get about 50fps now im down to about 20. wtf

[Bevil-sulfuras]

You might have a lot of lua errors if you use addons.

[Respectt-faerlina]

Try manually switching to your non-iGPU. This happened on my MacBook Pro 16" as well. I had to manually select the Radeon card.

[Kaivax]

From our Known Issues post–

System Settings

• Certain PCs may incorrectly default to integrated graphics adapters.
  • Workaround: Open the System Menu via the Escape key and select System -> Advanced -> Graphics Card and select the correct GPU.

Please let us know if that doesn’t work for you.

[Valaine-grobbulus]

That was it, tango mike

[Wallawalla-arugal]

fixed, thank you Kaivax

[Voidarcane-dalaran (Voidarcane)]

@Kaivax

From our Known Issues post–

System Settings

• Certain PCs may incorrectly default to integrated graphics adapters.
  • Workaround: Open the System Menu via the Escape key and select System -> Advanced -> Graphics Card and select the correct GPU.

Please let us know if that doesn’t work for you.

OMFG SO MUCH BETTER!!! PLEASE PIN THIS!

[Neppieman-westfall]

This did the trick for me. Bumping so others can see.

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Kaivax

From our Known Issues post–

System Settings

• Certain PCs may incorrectly default to integrated graphics adapters.
  • Workaround: Open the System Menu via the Escape key and select System -> Advanced -> Graphics Card and select the correct GPU.

Please let us know if that doesn’t work for you.

This is pin-worthy, Kaivax…and:

[Mccheeseball-old-blanchy]

My game reset to hd graphics instead of my dedicated. Changed it in game settings and it got a lot better. But still notice a little bit of frame lag since the patch.

[Gythriel-windseeker]

Make sure to check any addons
depending on what addons you may use, the patch could have them spewing LUA errors

[Kayrina-kiljaeden]

Check your addons. Blizzards claim to only changing the API for custom channels is a lie, they changed much more because this patch has broken the hell out of a ton of addons, including ones that didn’t use any chat channels at all. Mine were spewing thousands of errors a second after logging in.

[Gythriel-windseeker]

Just because they worked on the API for a specific reason does not mean there will be no spill over effect.
Does not make it a lie

[Begaqueenx-grobbulus]

This fixed it went from 20 fps to 100 like usual thank you so much

[Zelthius-herod]

Yeah why would it not pick the optimal one as it did before the patch though?

[Crackore-arugal-775847]

Now fix the draw distance

[Gythriel-windseeker]

probably reverts to a windows default thing
might consult the registry or something or one of windows failsafe functions

[Drumadoir-yojamba]

That did it for me. I thought I was losing my mind! Thanks!!