Hi,
Recently I have been getting noticeable stuttering in wow, wheneverI am in any wow content my character and or anything around me will suffer frame stuttering. However I cannot seem to find out why or how this is happening. I just built a new PC its a Ryzen 7800X3D with 32GB of ram a 2tb gen 5 SSD and a 4080 Super. Im playing on a new 34inch OLED monitor too all of which worked amazing with wow up until the 11.0.5 patch.
Since this patch and this issue started i have tried everything i could think of to fix this. I have used DDU and reinstalled my graphcis driver from scratch, i have repasted my CPU, i have deleted all the addons and tried without any, reintalled the game twice amount removing all background software including overlays. I have also tried every in game setting such as direct x 11 and 12 also vsync on or off and every other iteration of setting you can think of. I can with all of this play games such as cyber punk on ultra at 108FPS and Warhammer 40k at 140FPS on ultra with 0 issues this seems to be on the side of wow.
Please someone help me
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Yea i am the same problem with some of my characters as well. Have cleared cache and all thoseā¦problem still persists. =(
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Try a CVAR reset. /console cvar_default
Presuming you backed up your addons/UI, etc. WTF/Addon wipes donāt reset your CVARs, so itās good to do this in tandem when trying to clear an issue.
What type of stutter are you getting? A constant, consistent one, or intermittent one? Typically, I find stutters to be an underlying issue from Windows or a third party software, as the hardware-side is usually from very dated CPUs, or failing CPU/RAM/PSUābut this presents as a universal problem.
I had a horrific stutter in raid/BG situations in early Dragonflight. I had to do a full reset twice before it went away, but that was on my old PC (8700k/1070 Ti). Iām currently on a 7800X3D/7900 XT with no issues.
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Its a consistent one, every 4 or so seconds it skips a frame or two.
I tested it on my old pc too same issue completely different hardware and different addons saved. I can try this but im really leaning towards an issue on blizzards end.
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Iāve been having the same issue. Itās driving me nuts. I moved my router yesterday and hardwired my network connection and I thought I fixed it because I went from 80-120FPS to up over 200FPS but now, as I type this, Iām sitting idle in Dornogal with about 50-70FPS.
I have sometimes found that fps drops in major towns are down to many npcs in an area as well as players as well as size of the city zone. Some have always complained of fps drops in major hub zones for many years, Orgrimar, Dalaran and Oribos as an example. It seems youāve done all the common fixes that can fix this, hope you can find a fix.
Not much to do, just lower your graphicsā¦
WoW engine is old, itās poorly optimized and they know itā¦
Whenever iām in town i get incredible fps drop, and both my CPU and GPU are under 50% load.
I play with a 34" monitor, 2k resolution, using a I9 13900K with a 4070 ti super, also a nvme 980 PRO (only games on it)ā¦
The trick was to go for 1080P resolution and go for upscaling
Sad but true.
I dunno i reckon its on blizzards end. I never had this issue before.
Ok so I disabled addons (Details, DBM, RaiderIO, and TomTom) and it made a negligible difference to stuttering in some less populated areas but not much at all in Dornogal. The game is playable but its irritating as hell, seeing as how Iām playing on a brand new Alienware gaming laptop with 32 gigs of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070. The PC is used exclusively for the game and has optimized settings. Iām thinking it may be that my internet isnāt good enough.
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If your internet was dropping packets or too slow, people would be running in place, etc.
My first instinct with laptops is the power settings and functions throttling your hardware to conserve battery life.
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This just started happening to me, too, same exact timeline as OP. Never happened before, happening now once every 3-4 seconds in game.
Same thing, happening since my battle.net app updated wow (maybe related to latest patch?)
ItĀ“s playable, but I went from 144 fps to 12-14fpsā¦ if I set everything to low I get 20-30fpsā¦
after trying many things, I reinstalled Nvidia drivers and the issue is now fixed
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Did this and it didnt work unfortuantly
Iām having the same issues. I notice that everyoneās posts are in the same 10-14 days time frame as my issue.
Iāve had no issues AT ALL graphically, but about >>10 days<< ago I went from 60fps flying around Dornagol to 5fps!
I did the usual - turn off addons, clear cache etc. No change.
I did some research and there is a setting in Windows > System > display > Graphics settings > Hardware accelerated gpu scheduling. TURN THIS ON (if itās off) ! Restart. Fixed most of my issues. Hopefully it may help yours.
The new Nvidia App that has taken over from Geforce experience could also be an issue. It could have āoptimizedā (LOL) something you never used before and all hell has broken loose.
Weird thing is - itās ONLY a World of Warcraft issue. Everything else runs fine.
Edit: After weekly restart, problems are back. =\
Nvidiaās Geforce Experience has been bugged on and off for ages with WoW. It will confuse the foreground and background fps limits and ends up setting the foreground fps to what the background should be, which is 8fps(lowest the WoW settings sliders go). Sounds like the new tool of theirs is following the same tradition as well.
From a technical standpoint, it might be an issue with the order of the entries in the config.wtf where maybe it parses for the entry āmaxFPSā but doesnāt require it to be an exact result. So if they are out of order, it might get a hit on the wrong one.
If youāve ever looked at the config.wtf, the orderings on all the entries is chaotic and random. You could make a copy of the file for reference, then delete it, then start WoW, make all your changes, close the game and then compare it to the one before. Youāll see the settings wonāt likely be in the same orders. The entries are probably made on a first serve basis, so unless you change everything in the exact same order as before, they wonāt have the same ordering.
Just for reference, the two entries for the fore/background fps settings are as follows:
SET maxFPS ā80ā
SET maxFPSBk ā8ā
(using my values as an example, I cap to 80fps because itās plenty enough for an MMO)
@Shaoting You just mentioned what I was planning to share.
I did some research about the nVidia App and it turns out that when you install the Graphics driver via the App (old or new) it will āOptimizeā your settings for you (meaning 3D settings) then offer optimization for your installed games. The 2 optimizations do not agree with one another and has been known to cause inconsistent stuttering in game.
SO, here is what I did. Uninstalled the nVidia App, downloaded the Graphics Driver directly from nVidia and performed a CLEAN installation. My 3080 TI hooked to this 27" 1440p looks just like I would expect it to at ultra settingsāperfect!
you 100% fixed my issue. Deleted the nvidia app and everything working as intended
Iām sporting a 4090 with everything else equally specced out, and WoW was running better on my old PC with a 3090ā¦ and Iām playing Cataclysm, not retail.
Iām glad I found this post because this canāt be a hardware thing on my end unless something is broken. I think Nvidia is kinda trying to force me to install a new program thatās supposed to replace GeForce Nowā¦ Iām going to go ahead and give it an install and then if that doesnāt fix it Iāll delete nVidia stuff completely and see if that helps.
I really only use it to update my driver anyway.
Update - I didnāt use this 4090 PC for about a month, and it looks like thereās a massive windows update thatās needed, so Iām hoping once things are updated with windows itāll resolve the other issues. Seems like much more likely than any other issues, especialy if itās been in the middle of installing updates while I was playing.