Mounts going backward or sideways

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On multiple occasions recently, I have seen other players moving backwards or sideways while riding ground mounts. As they are moving at full mounted run speed, I assume they are not deliberately strafing or moving backwards. I’ve seen the backwards gallop maybe three times, and the sideways movement once.

I’m assuming, also, that this is a rendering glitch at my end, incorrectly displaying these characters to me.

Additionally, I’m not absolutely certain, but I think that every time I have seen this, it has been on or near the road between Arom’s Stand and the Azerite WQ area to the north, with the other players moving toward the WQ.

This was happening before the 8.1.5 patch, but started some time after the 8.1 patch.

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I’ve seen the same thing happening, and it’s getting worse. Today I saw myself facing the wrong way mounted and on foot, dozens of times. I’ve seen other players sideways, and mobs sideways and even going backwards.

I’m doing the Brawler’s Guild right now, and the other players are often sideways here, too.

I tried repairing the client, but no luck.

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Ok, testing this a bit more, it doesn’t happen if I steer with the mouse only.

If I steer with the mouse AND then strafe, my model doesn’t turn in the correct direction. If I stop strafing and start running in a straight line, it will slowly straighten itself out, popping about 5 degrees at a time closer to facing forward.

I haven’t updated any software on my computer, or installed new drivers. Not sure what changed, but a guildmate says he’s seeing the same thing.

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And… it is caused when I turn off FPS limiting! My FPS shows 120, spiking to 127… and I can reproduce the problem easily.

If I turn on Max Foreground FPS and set it to 100, the problem goes away completely!

I’m using an nvidia 1080 w/ the latest released drivers (non-beta), if that’s of interest.

Wow, took a lot of poking around to figure that one out. :slight_smile:

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Hmm. Never seen it happen to my own character.

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I’ve seen it several times now and at first thought it was some sort of ability for fun, but just saw it again and a player paused, did some sort of weird spin around and the proceeded as normal.

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