So have I been unknowingly hurting my PC for the past week because of this issue? Came back from a long hiatus and have been having this issue ever since I resubscribed and never had this issue prior.
You’ve not been hurting your PC as a whole. The issues is excess writes. Which does reduce the lifespan of SSDs / HDDs. The Tooltip.log in particular writes a lot of information.
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So does the hotfix still work?
Some wear and tear on HDD, more worrying for solid state with limited number of read/write cycles. Hopefully a blue can get some kind of update, this is really getting ridiculous.
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Just make sure to launch via the retail folder and have the bnet launcher shut. It will undo the read-only fix every time you open it.
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Exactly.
Yes. You can do this manually, or use a script which I posted earlier. Lag/Jittering with every quest hand-in/Level up - #692 by Hýbris-turalyon
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Thank you both for being so helpful and quick to respond! Also, I’m not incredibly tech saavy, how do i know if my ssd has limited writes? Sorry if its a stupid question.
All SSDs have a limited set of write cycles. Varies by brand. The average is about 500 cycles. Which means it lasts about 4 to 6 years. If subjected to heavy write cycles, the life is shortened. I have an SSD with about 88% life left based on the SMART reading. I have just under 100 writes.
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And how would I go about checking how many writes my SSD has left?
Third party tools as Windows built in tool is generic, Good or Bad.
Options here: https://mashtips.com/ssd-health-test-and-performance-monitor-tools/
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Bloody hell, I was wondering what was causing this. Ended up thinking my HD is dying, or my gfx is dying… A tiny file, wow.
Thank you folks. The unofficial hotfix seems to have done the trick.
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Please Blizzard we need a real fix for this. I’ve had this issue since last year. I’m running the game with no Add ons at all and I’m playing on a decent PC and it’s constantly lagging when I get quests or return them. I don’t even have the game set on max (got it on 7). It’s time to look into this. This thread seems very old.
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Hopefully tomorrow maintenance will fix it…but i doubt it…haish…really annoying though…
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No I’m not confused, I said I was experiencing the same thing. PLUS a latency issue that was separate.
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I don’t know if this helps anyone for me at least the work around was removing elvui. I don’t have any jitter or anything as i did before.
This is happening to me as well, 2 second lag on every quest turn in since 8.2.5 launched.
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Happening here as well. It’s getting kind of tiring.
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I’ve come here every day for two weeks. I’m losing hope, WoW just isn’t fun with the workaround. I feel like nobody cares about me as a customer and I’m just forcing my way back in for nothing.
If this isn’t fixed very soon, I might quit.
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I do use Elvui and the workaround did not remove it.
Whatever the maintenance did, it it did not address this.
Back to the workaround we go.
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