Um… it’s not fixed yet. Good god.
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Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say.
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle,
Don’t grumble, give a whistle!
And this’ll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life!
Always look on the bright side of life
If life seems jolly rotten,
There’s something you’ve forgotten!
And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
When you’re feeling in the dumps,
Don’t be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle – that’s the thing!
And always look on the bright side of life
Come on!
Always look on the bright side of life
For life is quite absurd,
And death’s the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin – give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it, it’s the last chance anyhow!
So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life’s a piece of ****,
When you look at it.
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true,
You’ll see it’s all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!
And always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
Come on guys, cheer up
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
Worse things happen at sea you know
Always look on the bright side of life
I mean, what have you got to lose?
you know, you come from nothing
you’re going back to nothing
what have you lost? Nothing!
Always look on the bright side of life
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This is an annoying bug for sure. Yesterday I was doing WQ and turning in quests and the lag is so bad. I noticed skipping of the music too in the zone I was in or stuttering as people put it. I had to log off reboot my pc and it seemed to at least clear that. I will just have the patience for when they do finally fix it.
This is probably what a majority of wow players are thinking. They are trusting blizz to handle this, not knowing the wear and tear this is doing to their drives. Sad…
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i’m running wow off a cheapo 120GB SATA drive via USB 3 case with a fan <laptop only has a 32GB drive for win10 only> so the best bet is to save your SSD is to get a cheap SATA drive and play the game on that until Blizz comes up with a patch/fix
We just don’t want people confused or try things having no experience. That’s all.
For me DX11 helped stopped the stutter, but did cause the game to use 30% more CPU. After some time I decided that the CPU increase wasn’t worth it and went back to using the permission fix.
I do, and yes it overloads the write process. Which is why we get the stutter. You can have an excess of 50,000 lines in the log. I opened the file with notepad++ and had explorer open. Explorer momentarily hangs to refresh the size and notepad++ hangs when trying to refresh the file. It’s way too many writes for consumers. We don’t need the excessive logging. If the logs matter to blizz, keep it server side. Not on our machines degrading gameplay.
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Oh look, Tuesday.
Still with the lag on every quest complete.
Still with the flickering gamma on all my load screens.
Not a word recently from Blue.
Surely got your top-men on this one, aye?
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We’ve been abandoned.
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Going to go ahead and add to this post count. I’ve had this bug since the patch too. I really expected a fix today. Using the work around is fine, but no one should have use it.
Even if fixing it on Blizzards side is difficult or going to take awhile to implement, they should have at least communicated that by now. I fully understand it could take some time, but they really should have expressed something of worth by now. Literally anything. Hell, even a post detailing how to do the work around for people who may be unsure about it.
I’d like to think that they could at least disable the update/checking that resets the workaround until this is resolved.
Maybe we all need to start bringing this up in /1 on our respective servers and posting a link to this thread.
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Well, dang. I honestly expected a fix today. Very disappointed to see that there isn’t one. This is genuinely surprising to me. I’ve dealt with some game-stopping issues before, but that was when I played on a Mac and it was par for the course.
Thank goodness for the workaround.
I’m telling you, we’ll be lucky if it’s fixed before Blizzcon.
I’ve found a much better solution. As it stands you can do one of two things:
- Use a script to modify permissions.
- Manually mark the files as read-only.
However, there are some issues with this.
- Has to be done before you start the game from the Bnet app. Due to the Bnet app fixing permissions on launch.
- Start the game from wow.exe which means manually logging in.
Neither of these are ideal to me:
- I have to run a script to lock files if I want to login automatically from bnet.
- I have to manually login if I don’t use the bnet app that fixes permissions.
Instead you can do the following:
- Open Windows Security
- Click Virus and Threat protection
- Scroll to Virus and Threat protection Settings
- Click Manage settings
- Scroll to Controlled folder access
- Click Manage controlled folder access
- Click Add a protected folder.
Controlled Folder access locks down folders and files to applications unless you directly open them yourself. As such, the folder is locked by Windows. This prevents the logs from ever being touched. And in turn means the manual work arounds are no longer needed. You can continue to use other applications as normal. Only the folders listed in the settings will be locked down. Which means nothing else will be affected.
I have been using this all day.
I was able to fix this issue by moving my installation over to my SSD that I only use for my OS, not ideal for me as my ssd is barely big enough.
So I guess this is a “Do you guys not have SSDs” situation…
Do you guys REALLY need this much logging? Also you guys should probably update the minimum requirements to include that you require an SSD.
If Blizzard can’t undo it when the fix rolls around (haha), I don’t wanna do it. I’m dumb and I’ll just forget and break my game.
You’re not breaking anything really. But yes, you don’t have to do it. It’s just a less tedious alternative.
This feels like were in the middle of a store asking for help & the employees just act like we dont exist… or you get 1 employee that says “we might have a fix in the back, let me check” and they never come back out.
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I don’t wanna be “that guy,” but I had a friend who worked in tech support and said it’s far, far worse than retail.
A lot of times, you genuinely have no idea what’s going on, and trying to ask is difficult because there are so many steps. People also get angrier, obviously, without really realizing you aren’t the guy to yell at.
The reality of our situation is that Activision is probably adding more unnecessary steps to the whole tech support process and the flow of information is basically being clogged up somewhere in the heirarchy.
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I’ve been playing WoW since BC came out, and never had an SSD, nor have I ever experienced a problem like this. Perhaps a lot of people these days now have SSD’s, but I’m sure a lot of people still do not. This game has been running fine on HDD’s for as long as I can remember; hell, it was running perfectly right up to 8.2.5. To suddenly REQUIRE an SSD to play, would be the stupidest thing Blizzard ( or any other company) could do, and it would alienate a good portion of the player base.
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Blue you better freakn respond on this post because alot of people are getting really really pissed off. I mean not fixing a bug for 2 weeks is one thing, not keeping the community updated on a post that are about to reach 1k comments just means you as a forum moderator really fails at your job.
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The only update I’m sure they could give us would be something like “We’re still working on it, I don’t have an ETA, sorry!” which we’ve already gotten. Several times.
It’s a known issue, they’re working on it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a high priority. Something like this effects new and returning players, and could hit retention. Being rude to the Mod accomplishes nothing other that to make you look like a jerk.
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