I thought I was alone on this and was just getting some weird server issues, but this also started happening to me a few days ago. Random 2-3 second freezes in M+.
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I not only have freezes but random disconnects where my characters still moves on my screen but i cannot cast spells, everyone else seems frozen in place, but i can still type in chat and see what others are typingā¦ only solution is to close the game and reboot which fixes it immediately but then it will do it again some time later.
First time Iāve seen an issue this severe go unacknowledged for so long.
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Just had it happen to me 7 times in M+. Absolutely infuriating.
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I have noticed that it seems to happen when you are targeted by something for the most part or something you need to move from so there you are frozen and die and then rest of group gets angry thinking your being a noob standing there. Pls fix this cause it is nothing to do with the Nividia Drivers I have tried all the ones you can roll back to and it still happens. Thanks
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I have been experiencing these freezes since TWW pre-patch. I never had these freezes before that. It is not an FPS drop issueāI can still move my character around smoothly, while everyone else looks like they are running in place not doing anything. When the freeze is over, everything that happened server-side happens all at once. To me, it looks like the server stopped sending network packets, and then all of a sudden they arrive in a big batch.
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Yes. Here was my process for fixing it for me.
- Roll back windows from 24H2 to 23H2 as initial googling suggested this might be the culprit. Noticeable improvement but definitely didnāt resolve the issue.
- For any devs, I could 100% guarantee a multi-second screen freeze by casting the Death Knight spell āRaise Deadā or āArmy of the Deadā (normal, not abomination). These were both updated recently to cause minions to insta-spawn.
- I tried to uninstall/reinstall my graphics and cpu driver in AMD Adrenaline. I could not, I got an error that said it was unable to because it had been replaced with a Windows driver. No idea if this was something I did to myself by rolling back to 23H2, or if this was something that happened in the initial 24H2 update or what.
- I uninstalled AMD Adrenaline instead, rebooted, reinstalled AMD Adrenaline, and let it update the CPU/GPU drivers.
- Now gameplay is pretty normal. No more screen freezes on casting certain spells.
I am running
Windows 11 Pro 23H2
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Driver 25.3.1
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same issue for me - nvidia graphics card, windows. I have tried turning off any and all background processes and also lowered the graphics settings to a much lower level. That helped slightly but still happening once every few hours. Always during a boss fight or big pull. 99% usage as someone else noted too.
Same for me, bumping for visibility
Same. It freezes for up to 10 seconds each time.
Not sure if this will help others with this issue but it seems to be working for me.
As the issue was happening on raid bosses and m+ bosses mostly I went ahead and disabled both the TWW Dungeons and Undermine weakauras from the author āCauseseā. This seemed to fix the issue straight up.
In my case I also have DBM installed. So I am not sure if it could be some kind of conflicting issue with that and weakauras.
So might be worth playing with addons/weakauras to see if thatās causing the issue for you.
I didnāt have any issue in my raid last night, after I swapped DBM for BigWigs. That said, Iām not convinced the problemās really gone.
This seems to be a widespread issue at this point. Iām on Tichondrius US and have been experiencing severe freezing and lag, especially when starting boss encounters or using Bloodlust. I know Tichondrius has had several server restarts since Season 2 TWW came out, could that be connected?
About 20% of the time, when a boss encounter begins, the game completely freezes for at least 5 secondsāoften closer to 10. In some cases, it locks up entirely, forcing me to close the client and restart through Battle.net. Obviously, when someone freezes they canāt dps and they canāt dodge mechanics, and as a mage, I canāt farm Combustion back properly. Iāve bricked about a dozen keys due to this, either from my own freezes or party members experiencing the same issue.
I canāt rollback to 23H2 as the āGo Backā option is gone for me now in Windows 
Ok so, Seeing the same thing only since patch 11.1
Windows 11 Pro Build 26100
AMD Ryzen 7, 7800X3D 8-Core
64GB DDR 5 Ram
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super, Driver Version 572.83
Speedtest to a Chicago DC (I believe Moon Guard is hosted out of yaālls Chicago Datacenter) shows around 500Mbps down / 200Mbps up
Warcraft is on a 4TB M.2 NVme and the OS is on another separate 2TBNVme
I was running Procmon to see if I couldnāt catch Warcraft when it hangs to get a better idea of what was going on, because it felt like a really weird database lock to me. At the moment of the lock, I saw a flurry of TCP connections between the host and server and only after that flurry did it seem to calm down and the freeze stopped.
If you guys want a copy of the procmon log file I can send it to you, though it doesnāt seem to let me post links here in the forum. Freeze occurs at roughly 8:07:30~ give or take in the log
Now itās entirely possible, given the number of file reads Iām seeing for musician files that the addon Musician is playing no small part in it, but it seemed to be happening even with it off. Sadly I donāt have a PCAP of the actual network traffic, but I figured the timestamps and file activity might help provide some insight.
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I am fairly confident it is DBM. I always get this freeze during Stix Bunkjunker fight the first time I am selected to roll the ball. Other freezes happen at various other DBM announcements, but it ALWAYS happens during ball rolling.
Not sure what the solution is. Iād rather play with a freeze every so often than completely remove DBM.
GPU: AMD 6750 XT
CPU: AMD 7600x
Windows 11 24H2 (But I donāt get freezes in any other game)
I dont use DBM and have the same issue.
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and I use dbm and donāt have the issue
so weāre back to the culprit that always gets pointed to
Iām not on 24H2 and still having the same issue. Sometimes it can only be corrected with a game restart.
Just happened to me during final boss off Priory of the Sacred Flame.
Finally solved this mystery with some help from a PC building guildie.
Nvidia drivers randomly cause WoW to forget your GPU exists. Switches to integrated graphics without telling you, RAM spikes up to 8 gigs. Go in your advanced graphics settings and FORCE WoW to use your GPU. I did so and my game now sits comfortably at 3 gigs at a time.
Thought it was a memory leak or something, but no. Itās just Nvidia being Nvidia.
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