I’m having these same issues. Usually when I alt tab, but even after I close backround programs I still end up with very slow loading assets. I fight monsters and the sounds of combat dont start registering for several seconds after combat starts. I get random disconnects when loading across continents. Freezes and rubberbands when flying because terrain is stuck loading.
I’m playing on WoW Classic hardcore so these issues are just making me stop and quit and Scan and Repair the game over and over since I’m not going to let myself lose a character to this nonsense. I wasn’t having any of these issues until last week.
So far I’ve tried unchecking the max background FPS box, I’ve tried reverting my drivers to 537.58 and I’ve tried updating my drivers to 546.01 the issue keeps persisting. The only thing that seems to solve the problem temporarily is scanning and repairing the game.
I installed the driver earlier today and I had a disconnect while on the boat to Kalimdor, afterward all of the assets were stuck loading for some time.
The new driver hasn’t fixed the issue for me like I was hoping it would.
Do a DDU wipe and download the driver itself. Dont use nvidia experience.
Newest driver fixed whatever was happening. I kept having same issues till i did the fresh install mainly bec like a moron I retried 545.92 last night without doing a DDU after
Ok so I updated to 546.01, and guess what, the same problem from 537.42 returned. 45-50fps in Valdrakken. It’s not PrecisionX, I made sure that’s set to 100% power.
Rolled back to 545.92, performance back to normal (~120fps).
Not tech savvy here, have been having issues in WoW for a few days.
I reset my UI first, that really didn’t do anything.
I had noticed yesterday Nvidia said I had an update to a driver, so this morning I went ahead and updated it, it’s version 546.01 - through the NVidia experience.
I’m currently running the repair scan in the launcher also. THEN I came here and checked the forums - should have done that first - If I still have issues, would you recommend doing this DDU wipe? then fresh install of this latest driver?
No. DDU is really only needed imo when a buggy driver is released like what happened with 545.84. Caused issues for many. Nvidia had a new driver out a few days later. To make sure you have no residual files left from the buggy driver you do the DDU wipe.
I updated to the latest driver - stuck at 8FPS - tried DDU and going back 5 or 6 drivers and still same issue 8 FPS.
Tried adjusting settings - nothing still steady 8 FPS.
Other games like Wayfinder are at 120 FPS.
I tried repairing WOW files and still 8 FPS
I had that issue but it was only when alt tabbed it was completely fine when playing the game normally full screen.
I got my full frames per second but the moment I would all tab I would get cut down to about 3 FPS.
It was odd because this was only happening in full screen mode if I switched to playing wow in windowed mode the issue stopped so try playing it in windowed mode and see if that fixes anything
Also make sure you are on the latest bios for your motherboard.
I’ve been experiencing issues with stutter with all drivers since 545.84; reverting to 537.58 instantly mitigates the issues. I’ve documented the issue with 240 FPS capture on a 240 Hz display, and it’s incredibly noticeable. I’ve also sent off some GPUView logging to NVIDIA, after they were soliciting feedback around the issue on their forums.
In a Discord server I’m in, Kaldaien (the developer of SpecialK) noted that the WDDM 3.0 hardware flip queue feature was silently enabled in 545.84, and speculated that some of the newly reported stutter may be related to that. Not much more information beyond that as yet.
Finally, for anyone that’s using a G-SYNC display, I strongly recommend the following settings to somewhat help alleviate this stutter in many games (note that it won’t help stutter in desktop applications, if that affects you too):
G-SYNC enabled for fullscreen and windowed modes
Vertical sync enabled globally in the NVIDIA Control Panel
Low Latency Mode set to Ultra
Be sure that NVIDIA Reflex in WoW is enabled as well. G-SYNC + vsync + ULLM/Reflex has very specific behaviour that essentially gives you a very effective frame limit just below your display’s refresh rate, and it can both reduce input latency and help alleviate stutter.
That was the bugged driver! You need to do a DDU uninstall and install 546.17! Dont install from nvidia experience after the DDU. Download it from the website an install the package that way. The complete 545 series drivers were bugged!
I was using the 537.58 on the recommendation of Shiftydruid and the last few days my game ran fine. Today, I couldn’t log in and had to try connecting several times (hung at connecting), and I had lag, stuttering, crackling and my bar was in the red. So I had to log out. My game had come to a crawl.
I came back to this thread and I tried the DDU Wipe and then a fresh install of the newest Nvidia 546.17 for my RTX 3080. When I logged back in, everything was back to normal and the game ran beautifully. I played at least 3 hours with no lag, spell lag and all the rest. It seemed to be working just fine.
Thanks for the guidance Shiftydruid! You’ve saved me twice in the last week or so!
