Pc crashing

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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I’ve played this game for a while now up to level 48 in clasic, and now 83 in regular wow. for the last couple of weeks wow has crashed my pc several times 2 just now.
In the past week I’ve tried your steps to resolve thew issue, to no avail.
Here is my pc’s specs:

amd fx 8350 8 core 4.0 GHz
nvidia geforce gt 740 2gb ddr3
16 gigs memory
internet connection speed 300 (wired in )
with the in game graphics set down to 1 same problem, have updated the video driver, changed the direct x to legacy still had the problem , uninstalled the game re-installed the game, problem crashing still, no other programs running in the background, I give up, this never happened when I on LOTRO, which has much better graphics than WOW.
TIA for your help.

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I don’t think it’s the games issue. I never have had any problems and I have a Asus FX705DT Gaming Laptop.

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Heat issue?
Is it crashing to desktop or rebooting the PC without a blue screen error?

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clean out yer computer.

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Use an Alienware PC you n00b

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We need more information as sated below;

  1. Is the game crashing or is the PC rebooting, tell us exactly what takes place.

  2. Are you all up to date with video drivers, Direct X, pc updates, windows updates?

  3. Do you have security software, Anti virus, Firewalls

  4. Are you behind a router, did you make an forwarding ports anything?

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Found the problem.

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Tech support might be a better forum.

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download MSI afterburner software.
First record the temperature and CPU/Mem clock speed numbers when you have nothing running or windows open.
Then load WoW and watch the temperature numbers along with seeing if the CPU/Mem numbers jump.
My game kept freezing, when I did it, I saw that the driver was overclocking the card. I dialed back the numbers a bit and it stopped freezing.

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The absolute first thing I would do is dust it out if it hasn’t been cleaned in a while.

Check temps with CPUID HWMonitor. Just open it, start the game and play for 20-30 seconds(assuming it can play that long) then alt-tab back to the program and look. Does it take longer to crash when you first start playing it vs when you try and start it up again after it crashes?

GPU should be under 95C
CPU under 65C

Those are the recommended thermal limits for those 2 parts that you have. You could also be having a power supply issue if the one you have is rated for door stop usage.

When updating drivers, make sure you run “Display Driver Uninstaller” to fully clean out the old drivers before installing the new ones.

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Bro this is the USA we don’t use Celsius blarg

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How old is your right and is this the original equipment or have you made upgrades?

What PSU do you have?

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No blue screen this dosen’t happen with lotro.

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Nope.

I’ve been running AMD in every computer I’ve ever BUILT MYSELF. They run fine if you know how to set them up and cool them properly.

OP, my guess is you have an outside problem, probably need to clean out the dust, or a driver issue.

My guess is that it isn’t WoW.

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Ok I’ll try that, thanks.

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Good luck.

Remember this: any recent changes could be causing an issue as well, even something as simple as an updated driver. Could be a program you installed yourself as well.

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Lemme guess: dx9 fix?

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No my card is direct 12

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gotcha some dx 10+cards (including 12) need to pretend its running dx9 mileage varies ofc

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Go to the wow classic folder and right click on the wow.exe and click troubleshoot capability. It’ll do some BS and when it’s finished there should be a Test Program button, click that button.
You’re welcome.
If you have multiple HDs installed one may be ready to go.