Lag spikes only in WoW

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Unplayable lag spikes have been frequently occurring while in-game. When spikes occur world latency will spike, but other times it will not and despite it showing a normal value I’ll still be experiencing lag which renders the game unplayable. This is happening across multiple game servers on NA.

The lag issues are only affecting WoW. When WoW stops responding I can run speed tests (healthy results), load multiple youtube videos and other web pages with absolutely zero issues.

The issues are not consistent with all devices playing WoW on the same network. I had another WoW client running on a laptop and when I was experience lag on my desktop it was not happening on the laptop.

Attempted fixes with no luck include :

  • Changing DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1
  • Ipconfig release/renew
  • Reinstalling WoW
  • Removing all mods
  • Deleting WTF, Interface, and Cache folders
  • Enabling/Disabling “Optimize Network For Speed” and “Enable IPv6 when available”
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I’ve been having issues as well. What is your ISP?

3

I have Comcast.

4

I have spectrum which is basically the same thing. I do think there is a bigger issue going on.

5

I am lagging something fierce in Retail 200+ MS, no issue with Classic or anything else either. I have charter

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Task manager - details tab.
Wow.exe to high/realtime piority

Then when you log into a realm.
Wowvoiceproxie - high/realtime.

Switch to performance tab.
Watch left plain for bottleneck.

Hope it helps.

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Having same issue with terrible world lag for past several days. Tried every fix as OP, nothing works. Unplayable. Hoping Blizzard maintenance on Tuesday fixes it. Fingers crossed.

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Come on Blizzard fix your crap. Lag in Korthia, Lag in Orbios, Ardenweld, Bastion, Stormwind, down to 3 frames Per second.
Have formatted back to factory status, resintalled wow, all addons, and your game is still so unplayable due to the huge lag spikes.
Fix it or refund us our money