WoW Classic 3D Acceleration Crash

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Greetings all.

I have been playing WoW Classic scott free since launch and today I cannot play for longer than 30 seconds without crashing (being on Whitemane that sucks with queue times).

I am constantly crashing due to the message " World of Warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration"

I have tried the following but to no avail:
Run with -windowed as a command parameter
Run in compatitibility mode for windows 8 (and 7)
Disable fullscreen optimizations
Run program as admin
Re-installed WoW
Ensure video drivers are up to date
Turned off overlay for Discord and NVidia

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I am having the same error - except I am not even able to log in. I am using Windows.

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The live kernel events at the end of the dxdiag with the 144 code point to graphics driver instability.

Can you try uninstalling with ddu and then reinstalling the graphics drivers?

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Tried uninstalling with ddu and re-installing from NVidia website. Played the game and it crashed soon after.

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It happens to me too idk whaths is happended i cant put the WoW in windows mode for that

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Hey Lowfatmilk,

In this case, let’s try setting the vertical sync option in the Nvidia Control Panel to Fast:

  1. Right-click on your desktop and select Nvidia Control Panel.
  2. Click Manage 3D Settings.
  3. Click the “Program Settings” tab
  4. Select World of Warcraft from the drop down
  5. Under Feature section scroll down to “Vertical Sync” Setting
  6. Set Vertical Sync to fast
  7. Click Apply

If this doesn’t help, try testing the game after a selective startup.

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hey if you cope paste the title of this post on you tube you will be found a YT video with a solucion of this problem, is just like do right click on the Wow launcher and active thing, it works for me

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So it helped the game run for approximately 40 mins then it starts sprinkling green pixels on the left side of the screen until ultimately the computer screens just go black entirely.

I feel like its so close, yet so far.

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That’s the classic example of hardware issues. Typically caused by heat, or by a faulty card, or one that is going bad.

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I normally would totally agree with you, but why is it solely with this game?

I’ve played maybe 15+ different games with the same RTX 2070 without issues, and can play retail WoW without fault simultaneous with other games.

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Does it get hotter with classic wow?
I don’t know.

Your next step would be to troubleshoot gpu temps and system temps using something like hwmonitor while playing classic and other games.

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Zungar is probably right, unfortunately, based on that behavior. Each game calls your graphics drivers differently and asks your chip to perform different things, but if it were just a driver or coding error, the game would instead just crash. When you start seeing the wrong colors which fade to a blackscreen crash, that means the chip freaked out in a particularly bad way, probably pointing to hardware failure. You can have this tested at a PC repair shop, but if the card’s under warranty I’d go straight to Nvidia to see if you can RMA it. Most likely a new card will fix that behavior.