Shadow effects like the rune-traps in the skeleton room of Revendreth mirror network mini-game and the portals in Maldraxxus cause a square on the floor instead of showing a shadow/effects. help?? this wasnt the case before this latest patch
I ran into this same issue right after the last patch. I adjusted my shadow settings in the menu and it fixed it. I set them from “low” to “fair” and that seems to have cleared up the issue.
this is on MAX Seetings. doesnt do anything, square got bigger
You might want to try wiping the DX12 shader cache:
- Close of out WoW completely
- Press start+r to open a run prompt
- Paste in
%localappdata%\NVIDIA\to get to the folder - Delete the folder named DXCache
- It might say some files are still in use(Windows desktop stuff, browsers, etc), that’s fine, you can skip the ones in use, as long as it clears the rest of them
- Navigate to your
WoW\retail\WTFfolder and rename yourconfig.wtffile, you can always rename it back if it doesn’t work and you don’t want to fiddle with your settings again - Reopen WoW
- Check your settings, for now, just use the recommended, should probably default you to slider 7 or something which is fine to test with, just don’t mess with any of the other settings.
If it’s still there, maybe try NOT using MSAA. I know MSAA was one of the main triggers of the black model flickering that’s plagued WoW on and off for a couple years now, so this could be related, even if it’s the shadows this time. You might also want to test with RT on and off as well.
If none of that works, it’s possible that you’ll need to do a full UI reset and /console cvar_default but test the above out first. And as a last ditch effort, you might have something wrong with your wow.exe nvidia profile or something wrong within the driver settings and/or corruption; in which case, you’d probably have to do a DDU reinstall of the drivers to 100% wipe out the old and reinstall the drivers again.
i reintalled nvidia drivers and im not going to delete my wow addonetc settings for a graphics bug that did not exist a week ago
Was it at least a clean reinstall where you check the advanced option to do so? Otherwise, it might not delete the shader cache or reset potentially broken Nvidia control panel settings. Ideally, you’d use the DDU uninstaller program to really deep clean it all (it’s sticked on the Nvidia forums by their customer support)
As for the addons and stuff and not wanting to delete them, you don’t have to delete them to test, just delete the cache folder and rename the interface+WTF folders to test with a blank slate.
I have the same issues and Ive already done clean install of drivers, ran without addons, reset wow UI, reset wow settings, ran dx12 dx11, ran the game with and without msaa with and without RT. This problem began with the 10.0.5 patch.
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i deleted the shader cache. i uninstall my gpu driver. i saw pixels on my uhd screen. i restarted pc. i download nvidia driver latest from their website. nothing changed. can we get a blue customer suport here to aknowledge that this is being worked on and its broken by blizzard since last patch
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Well if that didn’t fix it, then it looks like it’s this problem that’s already been replied to by a blue in another thread from a couple weeks ago:
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Might be related but not sure because I have over 40 characters most of them necrolord with the portal network and all of them have the same issue. different races with different gear some of them dont even have transmogs. So I doubt that is the same issue we are talking here. Also I Dont have the grainy textures bugs or the squares under players.
I made this post 10 days ago and got nothing, same issues as OP
still not fixed. blizzard can you fix this? we are paying 13 euros per month and 70euros for the expansion
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