I started having this issue the past week and can’t figure out what is causing it.
Basically, textures will randomly turn black with randomly colored blocks and stripes. I can play the game for hours and not see it or it will happen immediately when logging in. It seems to be completely random. Sometimes it happens to my UI action buttons, objects in the world, or even the map. Reloading the UI fixes map or action buttons usually, but rarely fixes terrain or object textures.
I have run the scan and repair option for the game, but the issue still persists. My video card driver is up to date. I have an Nvidia RTX 3070ti. I have checked more core temps, video card temps, and motherboard temps, all are running well below any concerning temperature.
I am not experiencing this issue with any other game, even games with much higher demand than WoW.
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DX12 texture corruption. It’s been an issue for some lately. Run the command /console gxrestart to reboot the graphics engine. You can make a macro of it for future use, if needed.
I’ve heard reports that it tends to happen more often when people have other apps open that are using hardware acceleration, like a browser with a youtube video open or discord. So it more than likely is still on the driver end of things and how they manage the GPU memory. WoW isn’t the only game that gets hit with these corrupt texture problems on DX12.
I’ve been having this issue on DX11+Linux and your macro fixed it. Thank you so much, I was worried I was going to have to do Rasz prog w/ 20 fewer FPS on Windows.
If my shadows are set to Fair, they render as black boxes. If set to Good (or higher, presumably), they render as expected. In Azure Vaults, all the swirlies rendered as expected (eg thunder strikes, null stomp, etc), but the buttom portion of storming and the consuming stomp, as well as some prop lighting, render as black textures.
/console gxrestart definitely helps, but can’t get everything.
Again, this is on DX11. My GPU and CPU temps are always below 70 degrees Celsius.
A bunch of us linux users are having the same issue. We’re on lutrus’ forums. I tried a bunch of the usual stuff but nothing worked. I’m starting to think it’s just a bug in wine but what do I know.