WoW UI elements missing upon loading a character ingame, DX 12 issue I think

Support Bug Report
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Whenever I load WoW-retail these days the first 1 minute or so in game upon loading a character is showing blank picture portraits frame(no character pic) and transparent missing frames for the rest of things like my bags have no background or missing UI elements like in Stormwind city my character is missing for that length of time till all of a sudden other Players suddenly appear and stuff like the mailbox finally appear and are clickable
this started about the time DirectX12 version of WoW was introduced
and enabled by default… BUT Nvidia acknowledges that the game will crash on Windows 7 in it is switched from DX11 to DX12… and they are working on a fix for that…

I believe this could be a DX 12 issue but its worse looking if I load a character when DX11 is selected…

I will post pics of the addons I use and a screenshot of the UI elements when they are missing at the load of a character…

ps: while bookmarking this topic for future reference I found a link to my previous report on this issue…

https:// i.postimg.cc/sQXjVWkF/Screenshot-Wo-WMatrix-Wo-W-Retail-Addons-List.png

https:// i.postimg.cc/qBbkV5tT/Screenshot-Wo-W-Retail-Missing-UI-elments.jpg

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I don’t think this is a DX12 issue. I’m having the exact same problem on an iMac running OSX 10.15.3

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it could be a gfx driver issue… too…
Bindaek what do u use for a gfx card? and drivers?

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Radeon Pro 560 4 GB

for drivers, it’s the built-in ones from for macOS 10.15.5
uses Metal not Open CL

I pretty much solved the problem by moving WOW to an external SSD drive via USB-C. All my problems disappearred. The stock hard drive is an Apple Fusion 1TB drive but it is only a 5400rpm, big bottleneck reading/writing all the data for WOW on loading/changing zones when porting. Come to find out a 7200 rpm drive is needed to maintain the speed of reading the data.