I’ve just reinstalled wow to come back for 8.2 but im met with a big issue. When I load into the game its fine for a few seconds till I start playing or mouse over something. I start getting pixels flying around my screen for a couple of seconds until the game and my sound (including any music I had playing in the background) freezes. After 2-3 seconds and occasionally a black screen it goes back to normal for 10 seconds or so until the issue repeats itself. Looking at task manager I can see my GPU usage shoots to 100% during the freeze. I have tried deleting all addons, clearing cache, deleting wtf, repairing the game, reinstalling my graphics drivers, everything. I only have this issue when playing wow, other games work just fine. I even played during the classic stress test with 0 issues. I’m out of ideas at this point and nothing ive searched on google has been any help at all.
Hey there Sß,
On this one, it sounds like hardware issues, once where the level of heat gets to high. It can be checked with HwMonitor. If you want us to check it out, upload picture of the tool to a site like Imgur.com and post back here with the link.
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I hope we can help out here my friend.
/Nathardrick
I doubt its a heat issue even though my pc can run a little hot sometimes, even on a cold startup wow will instantly have issues.
I run dxdiag and this is the pastebin number: i8kqvGFM
Sß,
Overheating often displays as a progressive issue, but that doesn’t mean it’s slow. A system can overheat rather quickly even from a cold startup. We want to check for overheating because you mentioned the issue starts as pixels that get worse until a crash happens. That’s the kind of pattern we’d expect from an overheating issue.
Due to that, I’d still recommend running the HWmonitor tool Nathardrick mentioned and check things out by taking a screenshot of the tool.
I did look over your system files too and I notice you have older sound drivers installed. Let’s try updating them since you mentioned this crash had an audio component too.
Heres a screenshot from hwmonitor. Its a little warm but Ive had the same setup/temps even during legion and I don’t have issues with any other games. imgurdotcom/a/laCiRu8
I went into device manager and right clicked update driver all the sound stuff under audio inputs and outputs and it said they were all up to date, is there another way to do this?
I just went into wow again and had same issue but this time my music didn’t stop. My computer screen did go black for a second and had the display port popup in the top right so i’m assuming its definitely a graphics card issue. Im just frustrated that this issue only occurs when playing wow, it doesn’t make any sense.
You will want to check your motherboard manufacturers website for the latest sound card drivers.
Ok it looks like it is an overheating issue, after one of the crashes I took off the side of my PC case and noticed the gpu fans werent even spinning. I downloaded msi afterburner and after setting fan speeds I was able to play without a crash. It seems when my gpu goes over 65 Celsius I start crashing. Is it safe to run my fans at 90% speed constantly?
Tv,
It is, but 65 Celsius should not be high enough to cause that problem, and your PC should be able to automatically spin your fan speeds up and down to maintain a cool enough temperature. (As long as you aren’t manually stopping the fans from spinning beyond a certain threshold. My advice would be to disable ALL custom fan profiles and see how it goes.)
I don’t believe that this will be a long term fix for you, as audio related crashes are almost always cpu related if it’s a hardware heat problem. In the event that you find that this is a reliable fix for you, I’d honestly contact NVidia to get help testing your GPU. That would probably indicate something weird is going on with your graphics card as 65 C is a normal operating temperature for a 10x0 series graphics chip.