Just updated to Windows 11 and rather immediately noticed FPS spikes in game (90 to 15). Spikes occurring randomly and not necessarily due to game activity. Prior to this I was consistently over 75fps.
Not sure if others have reported this issue but even with the latest Nvidia driver installs and some other adjustments (mostly disabling the GameDVR function in RegEdit) I’m still seeing these FPS drops. I’ll check the Nvidia site to see if others are experiencing this problem but happy to try an suggestions.
You may want to try using Display Driver Uninstaller to wipe the current driver install, and then test installing the previous drivers from Nvidia to see if that changes anything.
Not sure if this will help or not, figured I’d chime in. I’m using windows 11 pro & have a consistent average of 91 fps out of 117 hours played but using a RX 570 g card.
Thanks for the quick response. I did a clean re-install of the drivers but I still see FPS lags where I’ll drop to 10-12 FPS for 5 or 10 seconds then burst back up to 100+. Home and World latency is around 40ms. I’ve shut down all other apps and monitored my CPU and GPU load which are all below 50%. I’m running an i7-8750 with 16GB or RAM and a GTX 1070/8GB and my settings are the standard Nvidia recommendations for WoW.
Not sure there are other suggestions but I’m thinking this is a byproduct of upgrading to Win11 and will probably take some time to sort out.
I have the same exact issue. Although, I can tell you it started before upgrading to Windows 11. It’s just out of no where and happens with or without addons enabled. It happens anywhere in WoW, from Mage Tower to Arena. My computer doesn’t lock up. Mine lasts about a second or less but it’s very noticeable.
I’ve downgraded my drivers, bought new ram, a new cpu, even a new PSU (I was planning on upgrading anyway but I figured I would see if this would fix it). Nope, still happening with a brand new cpu and ram. I guess it could be the graphics card, but I’m just not sure at this point.
I had a strange issue with crashing whenever I would try swapping toons or reload UI. Windows 11 pro on a WD SN850. I moved the game install over originally, now doing a full reinstall.
The program Wow.exe version 9.1.5.41488 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 2dfc
Start Time: 01d7f230134026e0
Termination Time: 6
Application Path: C:\Users\Stryg\Documents\Games\World of Warcraft_retail_\Wow.exe
Report Id: 4e0af71c-28ac-4cb9-8a5d-a7d49501e29f
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Hang type: Unknown
This is all the information windows event viewer gave about it:/
Edit: I tried your suggestion & moved to that file path, still experienced the crashing after. I made sure to repair the wow client with the tool before giving up. I have wiped the entire drive now & have everything updated; currently installing WOW fresh.
Another issue I was experiencing before is fixed now; I was having trouble getting ryzen master working, after wipe / reinstall of win 11 pro I installed it after updates & works without a hitch. I’ll never clone a hard drive again after this, lol. I think that was the start of my trouble (using acronis vs a clean install).
I’ve heard some people have to disable g-sync or they get issues, but that was more due to flickering I think. I’d try it just to see, can always re enable.
[Some applications on devices that have AMD Ryzen processors might drop performance]
A L3 cache latency issue was observed on devices with AMD Ryzen processors after upgrading to Windows 11
I reflected on this a bit more and narrowed it down to something other than Wow or GPU Drivers.
The behavior seemed to be associated with some app making resource intensive calls on a periodic basis. I ran MSCONFIG (Win-R) and scanned all the non-Microsoft services for anything that appeared to be polling actively. I shut down Adobe, Slack, Discord, Teams, Gdrive, OneDrive, Razer and GHub. This dramatically improved the FPS rate so it was consistently over 100. I did see a few times the FPS dropped to 30 but it was only for a second or two and didn’t interfere with game play.
Although it’s early to say definitively, I think the culprit is the Razer Synapse app. This app has always seemed to lag with updates after major OS changes and I don’t get the sense that this gets a lot of development resources.
Anyways, a few suggestions for others to try if they experience the same issue.
Usually such issues are caused by an overlay that another program can run on your computer while playing WoW. Discord is one of the apps that use such an overlay. Razer can as well if I’m not mistaken .