Massive stutters with DF client

Running windows 11 issue still there. My friend plays on a Mac and noticed this issue.

Hope this information helps.

As Shyspy has said too it’s no pretty much every os.

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Please stop trolling. I have these issues without add-ons. You should be banned for trolling the tech support forums. That’s pretty low.

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Then explain why people with AMD cards are also having this problem.

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So the issue has been solved. I ran this line in cmd as admin. FIXED EVERYTHING.

sfc /scannow
After it was done, it gave me this
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log this indicates that the tool detected problems and was able to fix them.

Hopefully this will work for some of you as well.

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I agree with both your comments Caerian. Also, I can verify the AMD thing. I have a fully AMD laptop from ASUS ROG. ZERO addons.

Plus, I have friends who have both AMD and nivdia and even a friend who plays on a Mac that are having similar issues. So :woman_shrugging:t3:.

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Maybe it’s resolved for you, but it still remains a problem for us others.

This is coming from a person testing PCs in the best possible scenario. Namely fresh OS install, in an environment with the least amount of programs running in the background, no corruption to files or anything that could interfere with benchmark results.

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Thanks for all the free bumps Pawgwalker. The bigger this thread gets the more likely that Blizzard will fix their game.

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True however, I still felt like sharing this info would be important as it may help someone out.
Hence why I ended my post with Hopefully this will work for some of you as well.

The more information that it out there, the better it will be to troubleshoot this issue and the more attention it will bring to this so Blizzard can fix this for everyone.

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Im not changing anymore settings on my computer i knows its not me its bliz my fps got even worse with this latest patch. I have never had this much problems shadowlands never had this problem and thats saying alot. If this does dont get resolved soon i probably unsub i aint wont pay for something i cant hardly play.

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Good - PLEASE don’t go changing any more settings! It is not going to help in any way! I know people are desperate to get the issue fixed but all that fiddling with settings is going to do is waste your time (at best) or brick your PC (at worst, if you update your BIOS or vBIOS and have a power failure in the middle of it).

The issue was caused by Blizzard making changes to their game engine in preparation for Dragonflight and occurred on October 25th, 2022 when they launched the 10.0.0 pre-patch. It isn’t driver related, it isn’t OS related. It isn’t gfx vendor related.

IT IS BLIZZARD’S ISSUE TO FIX!

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Shyspy,

My apologies for asking… In the testing of the Prebuilds have you noticed the CPU getting very hot in DF content?

Thank you for sharing the info you have about WoW have the same issue in different PCs you/coworkers tested. It’s been a good send vs advice that we are making this up…

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Hey Returning player after some time off. I did also experience a major lag whilst playing the game the other night I was pressing a spell and nothing was happening for a few seconds it then caught up with itself and was a reall bad lag spike.

I had some micro stuter last night but ms and FPS where way normal, I do beleive this is an overcrowded server issue.

I think that is the root of the problem here as most have more then reccomended systems as is mine but overcrowding seems the only logical answer…

Maybe Blizzard can look into this and maybe lower the limit on a server… the one I am on is at High I seen a few that were maxxed i bet they get real bad lag…

IF there are any log files I can show please let me know willing to help out to the best as I can. I am not gonna rant and rave but could if it would help LOL!!

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This. ALL OF THIS. :clap:t3::raised_hands:t3:

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Not really, they tend to use liquid cooling on CPUs for the most part when assembling, so tbh it’s quite the opposite. Low temps and utilization with one CPU core maxing out during stutters, but not long enough to raise temps much.

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Thank you for the feedback. My laptop has been gotten to 90c-95c on dragon isles but not anywhere else. So I was wondering if you had seen that.

My CPU utilization isn’t high at all according to my Armoury Crate…

Thanks again ^^

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Yeah that’s not good, it’s in thermal throttling territory. I’d suggest to stay away from any overclocking when playing WoW at least, for the time being. Invest in a laptop cooler and get a compressed air can to clean those fans. This could get you down to 80-85c, which is more of an acceptable temp.

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Like I explained way earlier in the thread, AMD cards are a small percentage of GPUs on the market. You can verify that on the Steam hardware survey(tens of millions of samples). AMD cards have issues as well, there just aren’t as many voices complaining about them and most of their issues are solved by disabling MPO for now. Most of my testing lately has been with AMD cards and I’m not having any stuttering issues, backed and verified with emperical evidence like in the clips I posted earlier today.

As for the rest of the people still playing the blame game, pointing fingers at only Blizzard: If the problem were solely with the WoW client, then why isn’t it reproducible on all configurations? If I write some bad code in a game where it has some badly optimized for-loop on tick, the same operation would be executed on ALL configurations. It would be highly unlikely that it would be coded with a million cases for stuff like “If the person is playing on this $900 USD CPU, use this extra lame branch of code to really hurt their performance.” No, it doesn’t usually work that way… You might see some branching in the GPU end of things like if nvidia, then use this texture format, else if amd, use that texture format, but that’s slightly different. So if the code is garbage, it will run like garbage on ALL setups. People have shown these high end PCs having stuttering issues, yet I’ve shown a cheap $500 USD setup with zero stuttering issues, with settings pretty much on max, many times now… If it were going to be felt by a PC, it should be felt by the ones I’m testing on, but it’s not. Using basic logic and reasoning skills, what does that say about the issue? That it’s not 100% on Blizzard and that there are other variables in the mix from things outside of WoW.

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Wait…didnt you admit you are a flat earther? I totally glossed over that earlier, but now its sticking out in my mind. I mean…it makes sense pawg, for you anyways…

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Thank you Shyspy.

I figured it was in that territory. Tho, apparently alot of people with this model get that high in games.

Yes, for sure I have been looking a new and good cooling pad and air-cooling vacs. Certainly, going to keep this laptop clean and fans clean.

This is new one… as my og one was replaced due to it being a faulty one.

Anyhow, thanks so much for giving me the insight. I just didn’t know if this was an ASUS issue or other issues ^^

Sidenote: My laptop came overclocked via ASUS. lol

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To be fair, all the videos I have seen that you’ve posted are very short (20-30 seconds) and low quality. The stutters are situational, occurring when certain assets are drawn in from the game cache but depending on where you are and what/who is around you, they are not always present. The only proper way to test is to traverse the zone(s) more extensively and over a longer period of time. I’ve noticed dragon riding races and entering capital cities (like Valdrakken) are the easiest way to see the issue.

EDIT: My University professor had a saying that I like to quote: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

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