I am on a driver that is 15 updates old because it is the last nvidia driver that doesn’t cause all wow shadows to flicker with dx12 on. Yes I know you can reset your video driver every time you play using a console command. Yes I know you can set shadows to low. Yes I know you can set the game to DX11
But you know what I would love even more? To be able to enjoy full functionality of a game I pay am amortized 180 dollars a year to play (the equivalent of 3 full priced AAA games) without constant flickering shadows. Is this really not something Blizzard can sort out with Nvidia in 6 months?
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For those confused:
Either ‘Low’ Shadow Quality or Turning on Ray Tracing [any quality] helps a ton, as shown, but if this is still not fixed, that’s ridiculous. I don’t actually know if it’s improved any since I took this clip since I haven’t really been playing, but, I mean, OP is here talking about it so it must still be happening.
To be clear, neither of those “solutions” are good.
I don’t want to play on Low Quality. My computer is way too expensive for turning down graphics like that to be reasonable. So the other option is Ray Tracing. Which… even with a strong computer honestly isn’t worth it in WoW. The benefit is barely noticeable, but the framerate cost is huge. Preferable to playing on Low though, so I’ve had it on since I started having this issue.
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I get workarounds. know about workarounds. this post is about solutions
The second guy posting has his information backwards. I know he does a demo, and I have no idea what’s up with his computer to where the opposite thing work. Turn ray tracing off.
I used to have to roll back my card just like you, but that problem went away like a month or two ago with one of the nvidia updates. FWIW, I play on ultra at 1440 with i7 9700 and a 2070
Is this a nvidia+amd(ryzen) only problem?
I ask because it’s really strange I have never had this issue and I am on the 10900k. But my friend on a Ryzen 5900x is always complaining about this issue so I’m somewhat confused. We are both on Nvidia
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It’s an nvidia issue.
Was
Maybe it was an issue when Nvidia was paired with an AMD CPU because I have never had this problem.
My buddy on a AMD complained about it all the time
Come on, you can’t expect a small independent company like Blizzard to know how to fix technical glitches like shadow-flickering on their game.
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I’m on a laptop (nvidia + intel) and have the flickering issue as well.
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Ah. I’m curious why I never experienced it then
Me and my friend both intel and nvidia had it, but nvidia recent update fixed it for me
There had to be another factor involved because like I said I literally never experienced it. Maybe Ram was a factor in the glitch?
Im on a rtx 3070 if that matters. The fact that so many others have experienced it and I never did have actually perplexed me in the past quite a bit
I had this issue several drivers ago on a 1080ti. Try the newest drivers.
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Go into you advanced settings and see if you’ve been playing on directx 11
Yeah!! Blizzard owns Nvidia right! Not!
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Nope. Only thing I can think of is I was on a working version of the driver and didn’t update the driver during the glitch and when I finally did run an update the glitch was already fixed
That’s the only answer that makes sense at the moment. Unless there was another factor that we are unaware of that contributed to it and I don’t have that factor in my rig. It perplexed me in the past but it’s all I can think of as a reason for it
Nah, it’s something entirely related to Nvidia.
I have an AMD/Radeon PC and I have zero issues, but my Intel/Nvidia Laptop has.
My boyfriend has a AMD/Nvidia system and has the issues, as well our mutual friend who plays on a Intel/Nvidia laptop.
I think I answered my own question above
/shrug
I have a 10700k and a 2080 ti and still get this problem.