it’s overheating and you’re not noticing it, plenty of laptops have a builtin “auto-shutdown” feature in the event sensors detect an overheating condition (the laptop is just trying to protect itself by turning off)
it’s some sort of “dinosaur old”-tier toaster from like 2007 with very out-dated specs
My 2022-era laptop (…non-gaming/used for work) doesn’t even have a dedicated graphics card - but it can still run Dragonflight 10.1.7 content on “low” settings with AMD integrated graphics
And he’s not turning it off, supposedly, after playing WoW uninterrupted which means background processes are still running and hording more and more resources. He wakes up, opens the laptop, starts WoW. Shutoff, and it works after the restart until the next day after dumping its cache through the forced shutdown.
If it was a RAM issue he’d get an Access Violation Exception and only WoW would crash.
Do those things and then toss the anti-virus software. Windows Defender is more than adequate. 3RD party anti-virus software is incredibly resource heavy and full of bloat/ads/constant money begging.
I worked at night and sometime move to the kitchen,living room then bed ,of course then sleep with it running(I know shouldn’t do that) but sleep calls.
Depending where I am in WoW my GPU temp can vary 10c. I don’t know what settings is doing that. That’s my hypothesis for OP. Valdrakken alone is pretty intense.
i had a similar problem with a dell gaming g7 after one of the patches.
i think I did everything you could do:
-replace heat sink
-replace motherboard
-reset the laptop (after backing up my hard drive)
-repasted the chips
-daily used the dell troubleshooter software to update drivers, check hardware, search for system updates, etc.
-cleaned fans
-investigated setting in the alienware gaming software
-used the NVIDIA optimizer software which can help set up the WoW settings to what it thinks is optimal
-reinstalled windows 11
turned down in-game graphics to mostly “fair” +/- settings (check to see the intensity of graphics of camera distance and party members’ spells. turn that down a lot)
maybe some other stuff too.
it is also a possibility that blizz weekly patches or hotfixes solved some sort of issue its programs were causing.
somehow, all of that eventually got whatever was the problem.
if you have any 3rd party software typical of peripherals try shutting them down when you boot up. I think they cache data in odd ways and certain programs like video games which alter the way input is received could cause issues.
open task manager, find “Runtime Broker” it will be listed multiple times.
click end task on each iteration of runtime and make sure you’re only running warcraft when you want to play.
I cant stress this enough, open up your PC’s and Laptops every couple a months and spray it down with canned air! Those Dust Bunnies can overheat your machine to the point of permanently damaging it!
