Toaster chiming in (1060 GB, i5-6500, 8GM RAM, WoW installed on an 850 EVO).
I’m not sure if it’s already been mentioned, but starting the game directly from the .exe instead of going through the Battle.net launcher solved 100% of my performance woes that were introduced with the prepatch.
Despite my meagre specs, I very rarely ever had any concerns over the game’s performance; with the appropriate graphics settings the game was always very smooth and playable (exceptions being extremely busy outdoor content/world bosses/PVP – but even with these, I only ever experienced a drop in performance: the game was absolutely still playable)
The hitching/stuttering introduced with the DF prepatch is unlike anything I’ve experienced in the game before. Approaching the storm areas/bosses would result in a complete slide show (literally 0 FPS) for ~10 seconds at a time for upwards of 1 minute, swinging the camera around regardless of where I was would often results in the similar hitching, and even opening UI panels (map/journal/talents/bags/NPC dialogue, etc) inconsistently paused my game for 1-2 seconds. I don’t know what that indicates exactly; CPU, memory, SSD, etc – but the game was just well and truly broken.
At first I thought I fixed it early on by just scanning/repair the game in the launcher because that seemed to clear it up, but the next day the issues returned. After a hard reboot and deciding to bypass the launcher entirely, I’ve not experienced any of the stutters again.
Curious… Try opening the bnet launcher => click the blue bnet icon in the top left => settings => scroll to the bottom and disable use browser hardware acceleration => close bnet and check the task manager to make sure all the blue bnet related icons fully go away(can take up to 20 or 30 seconds while it scans the system logs for some reason) => reopen bnet => launch WoW from it and see if you get similar results.
I ran the game through wow.exe and it didn’t change anything, and I believe more people will report the same as they used wow.exe directly and it didn’t fix anything.
In short, the problem is with the damn Blizzard game, that’s it.
And as expected, nothing was done on this maintenance… and you know what, 99% chance of not fixing it on the 28th at launch. The mediocrity of this company is hard to bear.
I feel as though myself and the rest of you have waited an appropriate amount of time for this to be fixed and it’s just time to unsub, refund, and uninstall.
Thought I’d chime in on this, I had the same issue at first and found something really odd, the “Max Foreground FPS” slider keeps getting reset to “0”. I tracked the problem to Nvidia’s GeForce Experience application modifying the setting, even if I don’t have it checked and have Experience set not automatically to optimize games.
If I uninstall Experience, the problem goes away, Max Foreground FPS remains set at 200, where I put it and the game runs smooth as glass. The caveat is that if I uncheck that setting, it starts stuttering again and FPS goes down to 10-20 whether the Graphic Level is set to 3 or 10. Setting the “Target FPS” does precisely nothing. FWIW, I am getting about 80 FPS on “10” according to ElvUI. It’s about the same with add-ons disabled.
I am on an Alienware M17, i7 10th gen with Nvidia’s RTX2080 and 32 Gigs of RAM.
At this point I don’t know what to do. I’ve waited through two rounds of major Nvidia updates, two rounds of WoW Patches, and nothing. Since the Dragonflight update this game is literally unplayable for me, the stuttering and lag is giving me actual stomach issues while trying to play.
GPU still pinned at 100%, framerates dropped substantially. Missed most of the pre-patch. I’ve now paid for a month of a game I simply cannot play, with half a year’s sub and an expansion preorder slowly getting time chunked off it.
Pretty disheartened by the response here, or rather, the lack thereof. This is very clearly a serious issue that is preventing a lot of people from playing and has been ongoing for a month. Clearly on the Blizzard end given the timing and wide range of specs that are suffering the issue, and it will ruin the new expansion launch for all of us who are effected. I’ve been pretty consistently positive over the last 18 years that you’ll get things done, and I feel I’ve never really been let down. But this is a huge priority and you’ve dropped the ball both on fixing it and communicating about it. At this point, it seems like you’re just not interested in paying more than lip service to the idea of fixing it before it matters (that is, less than a week). I don’t like saying that, but the way this issue and this thread have played out make it hard to draw any other conclusion.
Sad, my sub is about to end in like 20 minutes and they never fixed this issue or gave any update :(. I will check this board in a week hoping for a fix. I really wanted to play this expac tho
I’m just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks at this point, but with me realizing Dragonflight is in a week and not wanting to be weeks behind I’m just checking at this point, does anyone run any of the following “unique” items? I know most of you have tried everything else suggested in the thread twice over:
EVGA Precision Software
GPU Riser Cable (vert mount)
Corsair iCUE
Corsair AIO LCD Screen
Elgato Stream Deck
Two monitors of different sizes/refresh rates (like an Ultrawide and a standard HD)
I’m now on a crusade to help at least a couple of us find a solution of the post patch-or-Nvidia-update-screwup that occurred here.
You will have to keep trying, because I work with benchmarking/stress testing prebuild PCs and is able to test many different setups. None of them got any bloatware or overclocks (unless customer asks for it), fully updated etc. They all show the same problems with WoW, and no other games.
No. Because it’s blizzard’s problem, ultimately. Usually I go through life feeling like there’s an alternative route to accomplish everything but with this one I’m not too sure. I think we just gotta wait for a blue post sadly.
I was worried it was my GPU failing or something. 1660 TI, i7 9700, 16 gigs of RAM. It’s usually fine, but when I do something like crafting, my fps sometimes drops and stays at 40-50 until I close the crafting menu. Usually I keep it at a steady 60.
i still seem to get a mini-hiccup whenever its loading a lot of players at once but thats about it.
fps always 150+ but still happens when lapping around oribos or stormwind for example.
raided tonight and raid fights are perfectly smooth. its really just the loading of many players that seem to cause it, regardless of settings. (and im on a very fast m.2 and ddr5)
mildy irritating
also theres still a visual bug with combo points that shoudlve been fixed by now. those are my 2 whining points so far
Raids are a nightmare for me at the moment. Usually fairly smooth once it’s all loaded in, but the stuttering gets really bad. It’s caused my death in a few dungeons tonight, too… I tried doing the console command again and it’s still stuttering (I’m watching my friends teleport around a dungeon right now). Loading into major cities is DEFINITELY a huge issue though, but that doesn’t REALLY affect my gameplay as much as suddenly dropping to 3 FPS every 40 seconds.
