I’m throwing up another post here about the stuttering issue that a lot of people on the NA forum and reddit has talked about. Reason being that we still have full radio silence from Blizz regarding this. At least over on the EU forum.
For right now the stuttering seems to go away if you disable ingame sound and then restart the game. Playing without sound is not a fix but at least it points us in the right direction. I’d like to be able to use sound in the game but alas I guess we’ll be going in to the raid with this issue still present in the game. One would hope that QA becomes a bigger focus going forward. It does not matter how good the content is if the game is held together by duct tape and wishful thinking.
Let me know if disabling ingame sound helped stutter you experience when flying around the world. Especially around heavily crowded areas like the Obsidian Citadel. Again, the issue I’m talking about here are specifically the stuttering. We are not talking about general low framerates and the like. Cheers.
I have this issue on two PCs currently btw.
PC1
CPU: i9 12900k (stock clocks right now)
GPU: rtx 4080 (stock, no oc)
RAM: 32gb (running in XMP clearing memtest with no issues)
Storage: M2.0 NVMe SSD
OS: Win 10 22H2
PSU: 1500w
PC2
CPU: i7 6700k (@4.5ghz)
GPU: gtx 1080ti (factory oc)
RAM: 16gb (running in XMP clearing memtest with no issues)
Storage: SSD
OS: Win 10 22H2 (freshly formated and installed from a usb ISO built on the latest dl from Microsoft. In other words, no big feature patches taking place. AKA more stable in theory)
PSU: 1200w
Tried multiple nvidia drivers with no success. Full ddu wipes and even a full windows reinstall on the 2nd pc. Both systems run perfectly for what the hardware is capable of in other games. Both pcs have no issues with DPC latency. All components have been heavily tested, examples being memtest, checking the drives for errors and temps. Everything checks out.
Before someone tells me to post a dxdiag I’d just like to say that I know how read them and what I’m looking for. Both rigs are running as intended, their system integrity is where it should be.
Might aswell add that since the suttering goes away when disabling sound that I tried to get my sound from different sources awell. It didnt seem to matter.
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So a TLDR of the issue currently is as follows…
When new assets/players get close the game stutters heavily. Issue seems alleviated by turning off ingame sound. The question is why and how do we fix it?
Tested this on many systems in the past few days and it doesn’t remove the stutter loading in players etc, but it does keep the frametime a little more stable.
Turning off sound in game completly works for me. It removes 99% stuttering.
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this really works, i turned off my sound and the stuttering was gone
i can confirm
disable sound and restart the game
90% os the stutering gone… not all,but most
some times when enter a new zone,sttuterring
Wow it actually fixed it. Gg blizz you have bugs in your sound. It’s unbelivable they haven’t found what is causing it. Hope a blue sees it and passes it on.
For now is playing without sound for me.
sounds like CTR+S disable or something else?
Turn both music and sounds off ingame and see how it feels.
theyre always off ;p
but i notice extreme lag on login screen when that dragon is roaring
Stutters appeared in my game since a mini-patch on 1-2th or something. TURNING OFF THE SOUNDS DIDN’T HELP ME, I have stutters with 1 - 5 - 10 graphic settings. My pc is better than recommended for this game, my drivers are updated and fine, I checked all settings in WoW, stutters even with everything on ‘‘low’’. I cleaned my discs, my pc overall, its W10, no viruses or anything. I did anything possible with my pc that was recommended on the US thread about the same problem. My game was working perfectly smooth before some random patch. There is nothing damn wrong with my pc and with pcs of many other people who have the same issue. Nothing fixes this problem for me.
This problem also seems like appearing like a deadly roulette. I wasn’t the only one person who has got stutters after a certain date. Now every time I see in Battle.Net launch: ‘‘World of Warcraft has started an update’’ - I sweat and pray that this patch of nothing will not make my game to run even worse.
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I’ve followed aforementioned advice regarding the sound & music. I did a UI reset myself too and with limited AddOns my game now runs smooth.
Also stressing for now, have just done this an hour ago.
My key PC hardware is MSi Tomahawk B550 - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 5 5600 X - MSi RTX 3070 Ti
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Im play on laptop shuttering starts after last update before it was working fine i was got 60fps now all its goin to 5-10 fps for a 2 min. When im changing location / zone after its goin back to 60 fps with a spike …
do like me and unsub,be sure to open a ticket saying you want a refund of the expac and game time like i did.
The game stutters because it runs out of RAM completely and starts using the page file, which is 1000x slower thus stuttering ensues.
When your game starts stuttering open up the windows task manager and go into details. Right click one of the colums and click on “select columns”. Find “commit size” and check the box. You will see the real amount of memory WoW is demanding of your PC and it ain’t pretty. The game has a memory leak and takes up way too much memory in general. Spread this far and wide to get Blizzard to fix it.
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Tested this on a couple of PCs real quick, it’s not it. Went from 11.5gb ram to 11.8gb total usage when flying into Valdrakken.
I have pagefile disabled and 128GB of RAM, so in my case at least I can say the frequent stuttering isn’t caused by running out of memory or accessing the pagefile. With AMD 5800X3D CPU and Nvidia 3080TI video card, windows 7. And BTW have tried with pagefile enabled just to see if it made any difference… it didn’t.
With the new AMD video cards about to launch there are some good prices on used 6800 and 6900’s, very tempting to try one just to see if it sorts this stuttering problem as has been suggested by one or two posters.
Shockdmyself - all those machines you’ve been testing on and still getting the stutter, did they have a range of Nvidia and AMD video cards or were the all recent Nvidia cards? Any 6000 series AMD with the problem at all?
AMDs cache technology reduces the problem somewhat, but short version is; Nvidia 10/16/20/30/40 series GPUs, AMD 5k/6k series GPUs, along with 9/10/11/12/13 Intel CPUs and all AMD Zen CPUs have these stutters, even with sound disabled.
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This should ring an alarm bell. That’s an absolutely ludicrous amount of memory for any game to use. Blizzard’s minimum requirements for Dragonflight state 8 GB is good enough.