Prior to Patch Day, these were not issues.
The game takes a much longer time to launch from Battle.net and a much longer time to load from Character select. This is noticeable, not a slight increase.
The game stutters now where it ran smoothly before.
I will edit to add that it now takes much, much longer for assets to pop-in. There was always a delay in Stormwind, and that is now noticeably longer, but now I am seeing it everywhere.
Update: Still having issues. It took over three minutes to launch the client from Battle.net.
Longer than usual to load in from character select.
Longer than usual for the game assets to pop-in.
The pre-patch has seriously hindered the quality and playability of the game. When will this be fixed?
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You are not alone, I am having longer launch times as well as terrible pop-in when flying around zones. For example, in Stormsong Valley in BFA it is almost unbearable to see the number of objects just popping in at short range. Before the patch and hot fixes, it was gorgeous lol
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Can also confirm longer times for the game to actually boot up - upwards of 3~5+ minutes after hitting play. Sometimes the game world is slow to render when I finally get in, as well, though this varies more.
Always had the pop-in due to my settings, but the long time to launch is new and happened around pre-patch time.
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100% i havent noticed pop ins but the load times are insane
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Yeah, hit play and nothing happens. Hit it again a few times and then 5 minutes later 3 instances of the game start together. It’s weird.
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Yep, same here. Oddly enough it won’t even show on running processes, either, despite my computer fans kicking up a little bit as they do when the game is running. Used to be when it would occasionally do this immediately following the patch, I could close it in task manager and try again, which seemed to kickstart it into loading faster. Can’t even do that anymore!
It’s quite a strange bug.
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i have same issue but i find something very strange. when i launch the Retail. my HDD scale to 100% and stay there like 1 minute or 2. Im repairing the game right know but this is like file corruption or something eatin ours HDD or SSD inside the world of warcraft files.
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I am having the exact same problems since the patch came out.
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been having this same issue as well. after waking my pc up from sleep or restarting the first time the game will load fine. if i exit the game and do other stuff and then try to start the game up it then sometimes (not all the time) will take up to 5 minutes or so to load. it’s a weird intermittant issue that only started after the prepatch. like others have said HDD is running at 100% after hitting play and while its trying to load wow isn’t showing up as a running process.
having this same issue still also, sometimes itll load in a timely manner but more and more its taking 5 minutes to boot it up to character selection
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Strangely enough, ever since one of the maintenances before pre-patch 2, I haven’t been having this issue. Not sure if it’s fixed or I’m simply lucky…
Im glad im not alone on this, it´s been happening since the pre patch came out and it’s completely random, sometimes i get in instantly and sometimes i have to click play 2 or 3 times and then the other instances randomly open 5-10 mins after i started playing
This issue is driving me nuts. Any news on a fix?
Dunno but for me it’s random (5600x, 6700xt) and will suddenly start stuttering and taking a while to load.
I guess it’s something to do with the game since I am not changing anything and when I do a fresh reboot, it’s fine for a while. Perhaps a driver issue or memory leak somewhere ?
This has never happened to me before today, so I came here seeking answers. Took about 3 minutes after pressing Play to actually open, compared to a typical 5 seconds, but everything else seems to be functioning as it normally does now that I’m in. Weird.
Same issue. Still ongoing. Very weird.
I’ve also recently started having this issue. Hit Launch button and it’ll take about 3 minutes before the game screen comes up. The game runs fine once it gets going but the initial launch takes forever.
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Annoyed that this is happening but glad to know I’m not alone in this.
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So in this same area, I will click on Play and it will momentarily show Launching and then nothing for several minutes. And if I get irritated and click on Play a few times, I will get a lot of attempts to launch the game (after several minutes) and have to cancel them until I only have the initial play. And then, it does play slower/laggier for a little while. $&#^$%^@
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This is something i’ve noticed as well. Still an issue. Not sure why it wants to be a sunday loader instead of just loading. It used to instantly startup, even on an old compaq back in the day so it’s just funny to me that a game from 2004 loaded almost instantly and now it takes at least 5 minutes to load.
Swapped it to an SS and it still took 3 minutes on my end. Something is borked somwhere.