Nvidia have fixed the issue in a perious driver release and don’t have the bug in release notes. It could take months before they release a driver fix if they find a bug.
Out of interest, just try installing just the nvidia driver and see if the issue goes away. It could be the in-game overlay installed with gforce experience that causes an issue.
Again there is no such thing as an official solution. Thats a term used by 1st line support drones. All business IT networks work because of work arounds. Or what you would call unofficial solutions. The problem with workarounds is that they work and with the persistence of resource shortages. They stick around and become permanent.
If you do not need in game overlays, then try turning them off. This is not rocket science.
Aye, I did mention a couple of times now that I am not using a single in-game overlay.
I had fresh Driver installations too and the issue is still there.
Issue goes away when I switch to DX11 ONLY, but then performance suffers.
Also I do not wish to turn off my AA as I prefer the look of game with AA on.
With 2 different graphics cards tested with these drivers, I am experiencing same issues. Also tried it with a fresh system installation, same issue again.
The only solution that some of us can get at this point is just getting a proper fix to the Driver or Blizzard’s intervention.
Considering the sheer amount of feedback and people complaining about this both on EU and US, I imagine it’s not just ‘us’ and ‘our system’ and applications.
My friend has the same GPU as I do.
He had no flickering issues up until installing the latest driver.
My guess is that it’s random and that it will kick in when it pleases. It could also have something to do with WoW textures.
I had a clean installation of WoW in order to fix this.
I was flicker-free for a few days, then it came back again.
Is your gpu overclocked? It worked with a clean install, did you install any add-on plugin etc? What got installed after it was working? Did WoW get patched and then it stopped working?
I have a clean WoW install and no issue. if you want to just wait and see if a fix comes along thats okay. Just say you don’t want to troubleshoot or don’t reply.
Same as always.
With my 1050 Ti graphics card, the flickering issue went away with 442 driver.
When I updated to 445+ flickering came back.
During that time, I changed to RTX 2060 Graphics card with latest Driver installed, the flickering was present.
I have re-installed WoW and repaired the in-game files. The flickering was not there for 3 days, then it came back.
There was no ‘extras’ that got installed, no specific addons, no apps, nothing that could cause it to break. The set-up is always the same, and flickering just kicks in if a specific Driver breaks the game textures, like with the 445+ Driver case.
My game worked flawlessly with 442 Drivers and many people are still using it to prevent the flickering.
This also has nothing to do with ‘not wanting to troubleshoot’, the sole reason why we’re all reporting this is because we want an official response to the issue many people are facing.
We have tried the workarounds and we realized that for some just going to DX11, older Drivers or disabling AA fixes the issue…but that just can’t be the solution as we need to keep things up to date and have game run smooth and nice.
451.48 is working fine with me and a clean install of WoW. I had flickering before but its gone now for me. I then updated to 451.48 and there was no flickering.
There is an older flickering issue with AA. I have no issues with AA.
You can try going to nvidia control panel. Manage 3D settings. Then program settings. Add, then find World of Warcraft. Where it states Thread optimistation select ‘off’. Click apply and then test.
To roll back the changes, select restore and then apply.
I can’t test myself. Can’t get the textures to flicker again.
I’m gonna switch to DX11 now and see if that fixes it!
EDIT:
Switching to DX11 stops flickering of assets, but certain graphical elements are NOT present in game. Crates in Boralus are missing and some other assets.
Switching back to DX12 and disabling AA fixes the flickering, but it makes the game look fuzzy.
RIP.
Another update.
Deleting Cache folder actually stops flickering when logging in the first time.
However when I start the game again it comes back.
The Flickering texture bug (the character selection screen) one is the issue.
I’ll take a dive and see what Driver fixes it and see if that polishes the problem entirely.
Thank you! <3
EDIT: Well, the only solution that I currently have is reverting back to old drivers…nothing appears to fix the issue except either disabling AA, using clunky DX11 which gets missing assets for me for some reason, or using older Driver.
I’ve installed 442.50 Driver and I’m not having flickering anymore.
To those who want a fix and stick to the old drivers until this gets resolved, this is the page:
Flickering happened again yesterday, disabling MSAA 2x immediately resolves the issue, don’t even need to swap directx versions. It’s clearly related to the anti-aliasing in some way, the 445+ drivers must have broken it.
Today Nvidia released new driver 451.67 and WoW still flickering in DX12.
An update: Classic also flickering with Anti - Aliasing MSAA 2x, 4x, 8x. Trees at dwarf and night elf loading screen for example. Change to CMAA or FXAA fixing it. So, its definitely Anti - Aliasing and MSAA causing it.
I have decided to test my luck and see what new Driver brought.
After installing it I booted WoW again and surprise, surprise! No flickering!
I’ve been ‘character switching’ and opening up my transmog panel just to test and see if flickering was there, but so far so good.
I’ll see what happens tomorrow when I load up my character screen and if flickering is there; but from what I saw, I really hope it got fixed.
In case I don’t respond back, it means it’s fixed for me.
Actually I knew that. There is no flicker when you change settings in game, e.g. other anti - aliasing or dx but when you exit to the desktop and log back to the game flicker is back. In Classic this looks different, when I have MSAA set flicker is all the time at the character login screen (trees at dwarf login screen).
Do you people have triple buffering on? I was getting flickering on guild banners yesterday, then I noticed TB is turned on in my settings randomly (I’ve always had it off), and turned it off - flickering disappeared.
flickering is back.