Proposal for the Adoption of Unreal Engine 5 in WoW

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Unfortunately I don’t know of any solution that works. There are a lot of threads about it and a response on the weakaura github once commented that it was a bug on Blizzard’s end that they need to fix related to sound caching.

Someone commented:

That lua error is most likely caused by a bug in the wow engine, which has to do with playing sounds. If a sound file is not cached, sometimes the wow engine takes a long time to load the sound and causes freezes. We can’t do anything about that, it’s for blizzard to fix.

Here’s a tech support thread with over 200 replies about it:

other threads:

Some people will blame addons since it tends to happen when an addon is playing a sound, but many people who don’t use the same addons also claim to have the issue. One person in one of the threads claimed it happens only when they have chrome open, which seems odd.

I think it happens so infrequently that people just try to attribute it to something but can’t accurately tell for sure it’s that thing since it doesn’t happen often enough. I tend to think the response on the weakauras github is probably right and it’s something Blizzard needs to address. Unfortunately they’ve never acknowledged the existence of the problem as far as I know and have no idea if they’re even trying to fix it.