Often when the game tries to play a cinematic or when I open up the transmog interface, everything freezes as the game completely reloads all the textures and it is extraordinarily annoying. Is anyone else having this problem? Turning down my graphics settings did not solve the problem and I never had this issue in a previous expansion, ever.
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Did you try switching to DX 11, might lower your performance but help with the engine crashing and restarting. Especially in Nvidia cards.
Why are we having to switch things check things do things its clearly on Blizzards end needs to fixed ASAP. direct 11 and 12 should not be mashing up ur game. This is complete incompetence. All this started Tuesday night after patch
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Not sure if anyone from blizzard is even looking at this but here is a short video of the issue, take just less than 1 min from log in to freeze up.
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Your video is private.
Sorry, changed the setting. should be public now
It’s not.
Open this thread in an incognito window and you’ll see what we see.
Switching to direct11 works for the most part. Sometimes opening a new interface like the auction house still causes the game to freeze for almost a minute, but I haven’t had the same issues loading the transmog interface since. The game, however, still feels noticeably janky in a way it never was before, though.
Sorry don’t post videos to you tube, I checked it in privacy mode I do believe it works now. I also checked classic and it freezes and reloads textures, ran some other no blizzard games and they are not locking up, just WOW and WOW Classic
Looks like the GPU driver is crashing and rebooting. The WoW client isn’t initiating that process. It means the GPU stopped taking commands from Windows, so Windows performed the reboot. Just want to verify that the monitor is plugged into the standalone GPU and not an integrated one. Have you checked for this?
If you have, then I recommend looking up the most stable driver version for your specific card model and manufacturer, and installing that. Should be easy to find on Reddit.
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I never changed the integrated GPU so I would assume so. My GPU is also a 1660 Ti, which is a very old Nvidia model that isn’t even manufactured anymore, so on the one hand maybe that could explain it, but I don’t have this problem on any other games. Not sure if it is a valid comparison, but I can play Black Ops 7 with relatively consistent and moderate FPS.
Not sure what you mean here. The integrated GPU is the one built into the motherboard and handled by the CPU. The standalone GPU is the 1660 Ti.
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The CPU and GPU requirements for BO7 are lower than WoW: Midnight.
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I’m having same issue to and i refuse to switch to dx11 because its a crappy performance drop. Not havin it. I also have 1660 ti.
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I do have it plugged into the GTX 5060 HDMI port, its the same port that it was plugged into for the last year and has run fine still last Tuesday. I uninstalled the drivers for the graphics card completely, even went in and deleted the Nvidia folder completely. I than installed the drivers from 12/25 well before I started having this issue. The drivers are just the drivers none of the extra control panels ect. I am on the lowest graphics setting and DX 11 still no difference. I do not have a single overlay running and I do not run a single add on. I play other games and none are having this issue. just WOW.
There is one odd thing I noticed, when I Shift+Windows+R to record the game actually runs better and does the reload less. If I am not recording I can’t even get past the character select screen, it just freezes, reloads non stop. If I am recording it takes about 1 min for it to freeze. Not sure if that means anything but it is odd.
And the DxDiag?
I am not super tech savvy so let me know if you something esle.
Time of this report: 3/22/2026, 20:18:28
Machine name: KREBSBACH
Machine Id: {18FCDB87-2F29-4DBA-9AA8-EB1508BB7ABC}
Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 26200) (26100.ge_release.240331-1435)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: HP
System Model: OMEN 16L Gaming Desktop TG03-0xxx
BIOS: F.12 (type: UEFI)
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ Ultra 7 265F (20 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32410MB RAM
Page File: 10822MB used, 23635MB available
Windows Dir: C:\windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, no HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.7.9
Auto Super Res Version: Unknown
System Mux Support: Mux Support Inactive - Ok
Mux Target GPU: dGPU
Mux Incompatible List: Unknown
DxDiag Version: 10.00.26100.7920 64bit Unicode
DxDiag Previously: Crashed in MCDM Devices (stage 1). Re-running DxDiag with “dontskip” command line parameter or choosing not to bypass information gathering when prompted might result in DxDiag successfully obtaining this information
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I also wanted to say Thank you, I appreciate you looking at this and the help.
Is the version of windows a insider build?
The graphics driver did stall and restart, try dx11 mode as a temporary work around.
The windows build is what came installed from HP. I have not changed anything with that. I have DX changed to 11 in WoW already. Not sure if there is a way to eliminate 12 on the machine if that’s what you are referring to.