Slow Zone and Dungeon Loading

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So, I’m trying to figure out what’s going on.
However recently in WoW, it takes forever to enter zones such as Legion Dalaran… and even some Time Walking dungeons.
Taking 5 to 10minutes in some cases and to the point I have been kicked by the group by the time it fully loads.

This happened multiple times today when trying to join Time Walking Dungeons, the Fire Lands raid, and even Legion Raids when summoned into or to the stone.

(Connection is 120Mbps down and 12Mbps up. 51 Home/59 world latency

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What kind of storage are you using?

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Normal HD, 2TB 7200 HD.
Might be due to the fact I’ve not been to some of those areas in a long while, OR that I just consolidated my HD.

Many of the Cata Timewalking seem to be loading faster now.

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Could be worth moving to an SSD. Even since I got an NVME m2 SSD card the loading screen is basically a thing of the past (except Dalaran which loads fast but still takes a hot sec)

Hard drives could be subject to fragmentation and are slower.

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Yep, I just defragged it so might be the issue as it finds the files.

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I’ve been encountering the same problem, but it seems to be totally random and sporadic, not consistent. It usually happens when I try to go to subzones like Legion class halls or the WoD garrison. Sometimes, all I can do is kill the client program after minutes of being stuck at a loadscreen and restart it again.

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Yeah that’s your problem right there. Ever since legion theres dramatically more data that has to be loaded in (Dalaran for example loads the entire Broken Isles) . To be honest I don’t even know how you’re even staying sane without an SSD. There is literally no bigger upgrade that you could put in your computer if you’re coming from an HDD.

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Been said, but I’ll reiterate: get yourself an SSD. I grabbed a 500gb SSD towards the end of BfA and I have seen a WORLD of difference. Moved my OS and WoW folder over and kept everything else on my bigger HHD. WoW performance, and overall computer performance have def improved.

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On a side note, it would be nice if Blizzard offered some kind of split installation for those of us with tiny SSDs - most used files on SSD and lesser used files on HD.

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SSDs do help, though these days so much loads on the server side that even the best SSDs and fastest connections have to deal with that bottleneck.

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Get an SSD, i load in like 3 secs

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The was the answer!
I was trying to play on a full 3tb disc based HD.

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so im curious why didn’t you just get a new ssd/hdd and install it in the second drive? even a new hdd would have been faster.

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TBH:
I didn’t think having all my games on a single HD would slow the loading of one game as much as it did.
I’d regularly defrag, and clean the drive but WoW would be slow AF. Though the computer was also a decade old at that point.

I built a new one over the winter of 2022