Recently I have been starting to have issues with the game abruptly crashing.
No error. No nothing. PC just dies. Power back on and resume business as usual. It has happened before. I log back in and continue playing. In the past it might happen rarely here and there but then after login back in it’s usually fine.
Recently though, it is back to back. Log back in dies. Then again. And again. I have opened the Blizzard app, scanned and repaired. I have uninstalled retail WoW and installed it again. Afterwards, I log in my characters don’t show up in the selection screen. Log out come back. They’re there. Log into game. PC shuts down.
I would start by checking your temps while you’re playing and see if they are too high. If that seems normal then it is probably your power supply failing.
that doesn’t really change anything, presuming i read that correctly and you mean your pc is cutting completely off while you’re playing, there’s a short list of things that can do that and it’s your power supply almost every time, but it’s easy to rule out overheating first
wow tends to use a lot of both your cpu and gpu, many other things mostly use one or the other. you should be able to reproduce the crash with a stress test that is using both things at the same time.
What are the system specs? Cpu, ram, graphics etc is it a laptop or tower, prebuilt or one you built yourself? How old is the system? How long since you cleaned inside your system? Dust build up can kill a pc
Actually yes. Unlike most games where the load on the GPU and the CPU are fairly constant wow has a lot of spikes. And a borderline power supply may not be able to handle the spikes and load
The components in one of the voltage rails are failing, which makes the overcurrent protection excessively sensitive and trigger for high-but-normal current levels on that rail. It’s a typical senescent failure mode for power electronics.