can someone PLEASE explain regarding what is causing this issue? its been months without any conclusive plausible fix.
how is this problem occurring to such an extent is beyond me in a simple 3v3 mode that cant consume anything near 100% CPU. Notably, it may or may not occur in lobbies with BM hunters (not with UHDK, demo locks tho).
Would you maybe be so kind as to post some info about your hardware?
Like for example your CPU.
The temperatures of your CPU during the 3v3 and the clockrate.
I5-6600k, temperature and clock rate i dont know unfortunately. But for reference, aforementioned freezes etc only occur in solo shuffle and inwas even thinking about them only occurring when either a WA sound is played (although 99% of the time sound is working with a WA just fine) or when BM is in the lobby. Another thing, could „WA Archives“ be a trigger? Its a sub-element of WA that i manually inactive while letting WA active. This way WAs do work, but i cant create/edit any new ones…
6600K? Ok, that’s a little bit antiquated 
So my guess what’s happening is;
overheating issue, check temps and cooling, maybe repaste the cooler
your FPS are uncapped, cap your FPS to your displays refreshrate or enabble vsync with triple buffer
addons can cause fps issues and memory leaks, but cannot max out a 4 core CPU on their own due to how the LUA code in WoW works (it’s purely running on one CPU core afaik).
You can check temps, clockspeed and voltages etc. with external tools like HWInfo.
Just let it run in the background and check the temps then.
In case your CPU is overheating, the clockspeeds will be lower due to protection mechanisms, that would cause performance issues ofc.
It’s randomly spiking 100% not just in Dornogal but in older cities as well, without any justification.
More recently many players have been reporting the same thing on the raid boss Xavius in Remix.
The game has been in a state of complete mess since late June and issues just keep piling one on top of another.
This is true, but that’s a GPU load problem, not CPU. Do not mix that up 
WoW itself cannot max out any half modern CPU, only old 2 core or very low power CPUs (like in a office notebook).
If your CPU is at 100% load, check taskmanager what the cause it.
The battle.net launcher itself could be the cause. If an update is going on or stuck.
Theoretically it shouldn’t max out but user talk from countless other threads indicates otherwise and people with much stronger machines are suffering worse than me. I’m speaking of anomalies rather than consistently poor performance. Being afk and staring at a wall for half an hour shouldn’t be accompanied by intermittent jet engine noises, especially not in a classic-era zone of the game.
Same thing even after you close the game; wow.exe will still occasionally remain active as a background process until eventually 90 minutes later the CPU and RAM hungry leech increasingly starts taxing the system, potentially up to a breaking point or an overheating related shutdown. I have personally witnessed this several times and the strain on hardware can end up more intensive than anything I have experienced anywhere in the game, 40v40 battlegrounds included.
All of this has been discussed to death over the last 4 months, but never formally acknowledged.
Thanks for your replies. I wonder: what would capping fps even do? I have a 144hz monitor, but in scenarios where screen freezes occur, im nowhere near 144fps. instead, im in the 40-90 fps range, depending on classes and visual effects in the respective moments. I regularly clean mc pc, too.
Btw, maybe irrelevant, but when i recently went out of storage on my pc, i moved WOW from my c drive to an external ssd drive. Literally drag n dropped it, so its been forever since i really freshly reinstalles the game. But that wouldnt really mean anything either or?
It depends. A fresh reinstall could somewhat improve loading times on older machines but I wouldn’t bet on it stabilizing performance of the game by such a high degree.
The optimal folder size is around 104GB and with bonus downloaded data through direct gameplay it shouldn’t exceed 110GB. If your game size is significantly larger it wouldn’t hurt to rebuild the folder structure without excessive trash.
Be careful not to accidentally perform a blanket uninstall, which will also delete your character, account and addon settings. I suggest deleting the DATA folder and letting the launcher redownload missing files.
My data folder sitd at 114GB right now, so that seems… okayish i guess? Do we have any information on whether to use directx11 or x12 and spell density settings? Theyve just introduced it in 11.2 to reduce visual vlutter and improve performance, but supposedöy, it also doesnt work? Same as render scale.
Come to think of it, a lot doesnt seem to work as intended
It’s working but so poorly below any minimum expectations. The menu setting bug has been fixed (it was enabling an incorrect value), however the total sum of spells which are partially or completely filtered out is less than 5 so it makes almost no difference.
Renderscale has been fixed as of now but won’t help when CPU limited obviously.
What’s your GPU btw?
Have you checked the CPU temps and the usage in Taskmanager?
To be honest with you, it’s due time to upgrade or in your case, built a new PC from scratch.
i have to upgrade and maybe im just coping hard here. however, i still do recall the system being just fine in a 3v3 mode and honestly, it should be. my gpu is a 1070ti from ca. 2019 if i recall correctly. i cant tell the exact temperature when the 100% CPU/Freezes kick in, but right now with wow running in the background, its 57 degree celsius.
The thing is, your GPU is fine, your CPU is a gigantic bottleneck for any game… even WoW and especially WoW since it mostly runs singlethreaded LUA code (UI, addons, combatlog stuff…).
You could just replace the motherboard, RAM and CPU (+ a proper cooler) for now and keep the GPU if you mostly play WoW or indie games.
If you are looking into upgrading, i would suggest you start by thinking about what your budget will be
Here’s an example of what i would do;
-AM5 platform
-X3D CPU, like a 7600X3D or 7800X3D (best value atm), don’t cheap out on the CPU
-16, better 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM
-peerless Assassin cooler
im honestly on the brink of dropping 2.5k on a new pc with 9800x3d and a modern monitor. my system (besides gpu) is a complete setup from 2015 and it did serve me well. how much of an overkill for wow only would it be? probably way too much, but i just dont wanna spend money again in 5 years just because i greeded today. not sure.
been thinking about this one for those who are interested: dubaro. de/Gaming-PC-Ryzen-7-9800X3D-mit-RX-9070XT-101397/?configuratorActive=true
Seems fine. I would recommend getting the 5070 TI instead though if you want to play the latest AAA games with Pathtracing (like Cyberpunk, Indy, DOOM etc.).
Might also want to look into other cases, unless you don’t care
thank you very much for your feedback any feedback is always welcome.
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