This fixed the issue for a friend of mine - thank you so much for posting!
Iām not having freezes anymore since I switched to āDirectX 11 Legacyā option. You can do that on WoW configs > System > Advanced > Graphics API. Performance loss may happen due to using a less optimized API, but at least it will stop freezes and crashes.
Yes, keep in mind that your fps might drop as well by using legacy but your GPU drivers might not crash.
This isnāt really a āsolutionā - it seems to work, but Blizz needs to take a look at this. It definitely makes everything look quite a bit worse. Btw, if anyoneās interested - this is the error associated with it:
Memory corrupted ā delete -1
<Exception.IssueType> Exception
Crash
Exception.Summary:
ERROR #123 (0x8510007b) This memory block has been corrupted by an out-of-bounds memory write.
Memory corrupted ā delete -1
<:Exception.Summary>
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Exactly thisā¦ Itās the talking head and opening character panel bug all over again causing lock ups. They silently hot fixed it a couple months ago so we cant even point it out to themā¦
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Thank you to everyone who suggested changing to "Direct X 11 Legacy "- this fixes the freezing, however the game runs like crap still. My FPS has dropped by 20-30 maybe even more. Blizz need to fix this. My CPU and memory usage is also through the roof.
Itās actually a disgrace that the multi-threaded DX11 setting is so massively unstable on Windows (8.1 in my case).
Like literally flying from the Great Seal to the boat repeatedly over about a 20 minute span caused my display driver to crash and recover 15 times.
Changing the setting to the single threaded DX11 option made it all go away.
I canāt even say for sure what it was set to before the 400MB patch. It was perfectly stable before the patch but the game client likes to change settings on its own without being told to.
For people not aware of the nvidia issue
they fixed it but this patch broke it yet again, what was causing it? no ideaā¦ they hotfixed it suddenly and we had no further issues after yesterdays patch the fix broke or rolled to the client patch without the fix.
aside from other issues as well, thereās nothing you can do about this issue itās not your drivers or hardwareā¦ itās something that they have to re fix with the game.
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Pls fix it , blizzard ! The workaround is unplayable for me which is with Direct X 11 Legacy . The fps drop spikes even in the dungeons .
Same problem here me friend! Game freezes since the patch was instaled, happens to me 5 times in about 2 hours, tue game freezes for about 20 seconds, then my computer freezes too, have to hard reset, i didnt have this problem before the patchā¦ They keep sayin that is our grapich card and our memory, but is really strange those freezes happenin after the PATCH 8.3.7, again after a patchā¦ The game is unplayble and i need a solution and a hot fix for blizzard right nowā¦ Thinkin about stop playinā¦ im really sad.
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Having the same problem. First noticed it in the middle of a M+ dungeon. Not optimal during a quaking and sanguine week to be locking up for 5-10 seconds at a time.
DX11 legacy fixes it, but is a terrible workaround due to massive performance drop. I eventually completely crashed after a few dungeons on DX11 legacy due to a memory leak, which may be a separate issue in itself. Everything was working just fine before the patch.
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Iām pretty cranky about it this time around. Everyone is going to have to go through all the same trouble shooting we did when it happened the first time around before they will start to take a look at this. Weāve experienced this exact same problem before for months before they fixed it. And it was a silent hotfix so we cant even point it out to them.
Hopefully a blue takes a walk around the office and talks to some of the devās too see if they remember the problem and how to fix it.
Key word: Talking Head Freeze.
What is really sad is the customer had to find their own work-around for something that Blizz created. So,now if I want to play the game i have to sacrifice fps so I donāt freeze up every few secs.
I was working fine until they released the last patch. My daddy always said"If its not broke,donāt fix it"
And here we are 24+hours later and still no fix from Blizz.
Wish I had known,would not have bothered re-subbing for awhile.
Agreed. My game was freezing every 20-30 seconds until I switched to DirectX 11 Legacy. It doesnāt freeze anymore but it still sputters. This isnāt a fix. It is just a bandaid. Blizzard needs to take a look.
Does anyone elseās mouse ājitterā when they right-click when using DirectX 11 Legacy? Iāve never had this problem before now. Iāll try to right click on an NPC, and the mouse will like vibrate around him and I wonāt be able to move it until it stops. It doesnāt happen every time, but itās pretty often.
It does , Dirtier . But itās not because of changing DirectX 11 Legacy . Itās just another bug they have to fix . Most of us are suffering because of it now , either .
Itās double trouble for me because I have to deal with both terrible fps issue & this mouse struggle !!! :ā(
I still use DX12 and the game messes my mouse pointer up. Most annoying.
iāve done the switch down to legacy directx11 awhile back.
even just before the recent patch, on occasion right after logging onto a character, the WoW window would freeze and show (not responding) in the title bar. each freeze up is while Carbonite quest addon is loading background quest data.
I just want to know if Bliz is actually paying attention to this issue since it isnāt listed in the āknownā issues.
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I have never had any mouse issues. Until Windows 10 2004. After updating, dragging and dropping files in file manager with the right mouse button has become almost impossible for me. It is like when I press the right button, it moves the mouse preventing you from moving the files. I also started getting many errors, just sound, and nothing recorded in a log.
My mouse issues came with a windows update, not a blizzard update.
edit I donāt mean sound errors, the error sound, du-du-doop kinda one. Started hearing that many times a day.