After first patch on current version 1.60.1.69913, the game runs a lot worse than what it did when beta launched. There is stutter, fps drops, and fps as whole is lower than before. The ingame world seems jankier than before.
Also when entering world the game crashes GPU drivers on AMD Adrenaline 26.8.1. Hardware spec are AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT.
I would like to note that game performed much better before the patch.
exact same cpu and gpu as you mate, i had 3 drivertime outs / black screens on loading the game as well. turning off secondary lightning fixed the issue for me, but for such a highend set up its kind of wild you have to do this in 2026
windows10 9070xt, amd 7 5800X3d.
Everything worked fine - high/ultra gfx until the latest patch - I get game crashes, npcs are vanishing.
I’ve turned the graphics to low or mid and it works okay - no crashes but npcs vanish and I need to restart the game
This fixed the jankiness for me, thank you! Still, it is weird that it worked just fine when beta launched but after patching it broke down.
my game still Stutter like hell, well i geuss beta is over for me
TL;DR – WoW Forever Beta AMD crash fix (works for me)
The new Secondary Lighting setting was causing DX12 GPU hangs and AMD driver timeouts.
Fix:
SET graphicsLightMode "0"
SET raidGraphicsLightMode "0"
SET giQuality "1"
SET RAIDgiQuality "1"
Add these to _classic_beta_\WTF\Config.wtf while WoW is closed. This sets Secondary Lighting to Fair while letting every other graphics option remain High.
I also disabled Optional GPU Features, Advanced Work Submission, MSAA, and Target FPS. The beta kept changing Secondary Lighting back to High after closing, so I temporarily marked Config.wtf read-only.
Result: DX12 now loads and works without crashing on my RX 7800 XT. Don’t touch the main Graphics Quality slider—it can restore the broken setting.
Also don’t use multi-sampling techniques for anti-aliasing. It will raise GPU usage to 100%. Image-based Techniques are working and keeping GPU usage reasonable.