Ever since 11.1 hit, my game will freeze during big pulls in M+ and during boss fights in Raids.
I found this post on the eu forums about the same issue.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I was, but it was the nVidia driver from late February and also the one from March. I had to roll back to the first release in February.
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I hadn’t updated to the Mar 5th drivers until last night when I was trying to fix this problem.
I was having this problem all last week and had the drivers from Feb 13th installed then.
So it isn’t the NVIDIA drivers.
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Yes, it started about two days ago. My screen freezes for a few seconds and then returns to normal. It seems to be a sudden FPS drop.
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I have also been having the 2-4 second freezes since 11.1 in Mythic Plus and in raids. Not sure what’s been causing this.
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Same issue here. They are rare but happen maybe once or twice every bunch of hours. Game runs fine otherwise like it always has just everything locks up both in visuals and controls for a few seconds and it seems totally random.
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Same here very annoying.
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It’s been the same for me.
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Happens most often while coming into Dorn. Sometimes in raid and M+ I get a 1-3 second hard freeze and then it comes back and plays fine again.
Its rare so I don’t even know what could be the issue.
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Not trying to beat a dead horse, but I’m having the same issue. Definitely not a hardware issue, I was monitoring task manager when it happened to me during a large M+ add pack. My CPU was at about 60% and GPU around 50%, all temps were pretty low. It definitely has something to do with WoW trying to process a lot of animations simultaneously. I’ve never had this problem in prior expansions.
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Same issue here. I’m not sure what’s going on or why, but it’s very disruptive when it happens.
Same thing, Peak CPU lists 99%, but no info on what’s causing it.
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Found out this is also affecting a number of guildies who just thought it was “normal” hahaha. But nope, same symptoms very different freeze from when the client just jams up normally.
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Some players across multiple games, and the Microsoft forum, are reporting that the newest Windows 11 24h2 update is causing this.
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It is happening here all the time when I go from one instance to another
So I finish a M+ dungeon and leave, it freezes;
if I port to dornogal, it freezes
If i take a mage’s port, it freezes
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I haven’t updated Windows, and neither have a few of the other people I know having this issue – it’s only happening for us in WoW.
This appears to be happening, WoW exclusive, to a fair few people who have neither updated Windows nor their GPU drivers, or who don’t even use Windows.
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Most people update automatically, especially when shutting down, and don’t even know they’re doing it. Because of that, I’m not sure we can rule that out for everyone experiencing it.
Are all of these people also using addons?
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Given it’s happening only in Mythics/Raids, and across operating systems, an addon not playing nice might make the most sense.
The only addon I can think of that I know all of them are using is DBM, which is also only really active during that content AFAIK.
I was not going to bring it up because usually I get my head bit off if I mention addons. That said, if you’re freezing and haven’t done a full UI reset, you’ll want to circle back to that troubleshooting step.
Same thing here I switched to DirectX 11 which seemed to fix it for couple days but now it is back again. I have no clue, I have done driver roll backs etc and nothing is helping it any longer.
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Having the same exact issue since 11.1. It’s almost exclusively happing during boss fights in either m+ or raid and almost always the same length of time when it happens. I also tried the dx11 fix and it seemed to help for a short bit but its happening again so it might have just been a coincidence.
I am running an AMD 6800xt so it’s not an nvidia exclusive issue. AMD 5800x3d for cpu.
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