I looked for solutions to my issue but none of them have worked so far, so I figured I’d start a new thread.
I know people will ask for my specs, but I know for a fact that is not an issue, cause I can run other games like PUBG, GTAV, etc, with much higher graphics settings and they work just fine.
I’m pretty sure this is a problem with WoW Classic only.
But if you really need to know, here’s my system info:
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.15063 Build 15063
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ERIKGG-WIN10
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model GL552VW
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU ASUS-NotebookSKU
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. GL552VW.218, 3/16/2016
SMBIOS Version 3.0
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.15063.0"
User Name ERIKGG-WIN10\Erik Garcia
Time Zone Central Daylight Time (Mexico)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 8.36 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.3 GB
Available Virtual Memory 7.81 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File D:\pagefile.sys
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
To give a little more info on my issue:
I have run Classic with no issues since release, until recently, it started taking longer to load UI. At game startup, character screen and entering game, it usually would take less than 5 seconds, and now it is strangely taking from 20-30 seconds. It is very strange cause it will freeze for 5-10 seconds after loading bar is complete. Like, my mouse turns into an hourglass and sometimes even get the “Wait for program to respond / Close this program” prompt. It will never close the game or stay frozen, it’s just as if this was part of loading now. After 5-10 seconds, it will eventually load. This gets pretty annoying when zoning out UBRS for example, cause by the time I can see my character, I already got killed.
I uninstalled the game and reinstalled to my SSD, worked perfect for a couple of days. Reinstalled all my addons, one by one, loading the game between each one to see if I could find the culprit, but it didn’t seem to affect at all. Was working just fine for a week and then I started having the same issues little by little.
I am guessing it may have something to do with variables or data the game saves periodically or something, cause from fresh install, even with all addons running, it was running flawlessly.
Have already tried Blizzard repair too. The only real solution I have found was reinstalling the game (allthough I don’t think it really made a difference putting it on SSD. It actually started having problems way faster than on the HDD). HDD worked fine for the first 5 months (or since classic release) while SSD started having issues after just a week.
In another thread (Classic wow struggling to run - #23 by Leoncito-feathermoon) I came to this possible solution
This is what Command Prompt is showing after running the command chkdsk C: /f /r /x:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk C: /f /r /x
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) "
I pressed ‘Y’ and restarted but nothing seemed to happen, I ensured no programs were running, tried again, but got the same response…
As I said before, I already tried installing on SSD with the same problem appearing after just a week. I also tried the repair tool from Blizzard app, as well as running the game with no addons. None of this has worked. I’m sure if I completely uninstall game and addons and re install from scratch it will work fine, but I am afraid the same will start to happen after a while.
I really don’t want to set up all my addons from scratch.
Allthough I already tried running addons one by one, I still think this issue can only be caused by addons and the way they write variables and other data to the WTF folder. But I can’t think of anyway to troubleshoot this without having to play without addons for a week, then play with 1 addon for a week, then another and so on until I start having issues and find the responsible.
Thanks in advance for any help!