I recently had to change my GPU from a Asus RTX 4080 16 to a Gigabyte RTX 5080 Auros Master due to faulty power delivery. After switching over to the 5080 I have noticed ALOT of issues with this Driver and WoW. (tested this on Battlefield 2042, Doom The Dark Ages, Teamfight Tactics, Expedition 33, and Call of Duty) (I am not seeing the issues below) When I log into the game All I can see is heavy artifacting then after about 4 minutes the game driver will crash and everything goes to stable game play but one driver crash after 30minutes to a hour.
It’s a long shot, but try imposing a frame rate limit. V-sync doesn’t count - it has to be the numeric limiter, and it doesn’t even seem like the actual limit matters. I’ve found it to be far more stable even with a nonsense limit, like running a 200 cap on a 165Hz screen (limited by V-sync) in areas running under 100fps.
I don’t pretend to know why it works for me, but it does. Two different graphics cards (3080 10GB and 4090) showing the same result.
Great feedback. I actually run a 3440x1440 setup and have my nvidia control panel with background fps lock to 20fps and max fps 155. my monitor is the aw342dw and i have it set for the 144hrtz 10 bit config so it usually runs stable around 120-140ish in combat aside from raid. raid is another monster.
I mean the in-game limiters. There is a very slight performance penalty for using these but if it means no TDRs I’m okay with that.
Honestly I’ve not tried via the control panel - I like being able to adjust it on the fly. I’m also not sure it would have the same effect on stability (it sounds like it doesn’t for you if you’re already limiting, or your issue is different to the one I’ve been able to solve).
I have tried both drivers and I am still seeing the artifacting within the first minute the drivers crash then everything is okay. (not saying this is okay)
It was a long shot, so I’m not really surprised that it doesn’t help. It’s just out there enough that on the off chance it did work no-one else was going to mention it, and it doesn’t take more than a few moments to check.
If you have a 5000 series card I would open up a ticket with Nvidia. There are a lot of posts on the nvidia forums and other forums about the same issue with the cards so they’re going to have to work out what problem the drivers are having
I have opened a ticket on the Nvidia Forums. I hope they have a fix for this. Really a great experience for a $1600 product (due to tariffs and demand issues