Framerates randomly dropping

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all day today i have been having problems ingame with my FPS normally i play on a 90-120 fps but all day today it would just randomly out of nowhere drop to 10-20 fps not only is it really hard to play with such low frames but i did all the tests i could on my pc and no problems on my pc and even then if i just do a /reload my frames jump up again to the normal amount just for it to drop again to 10-20fps after just a few minutes i have been checking other games that would require more resources from my pc and they run fine with a hi fps without a single drop its only wow thats doing it

Edit: and yes i have done all the troubleshooting from this article with no success

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Could be an addon issue.
Could also be an overheating issue.
Try without addons and also check the temps under load.

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i have ran HWMonitor multiple times to check the heating and and its shown me that its perfectly normal every time

i did download some new addons recently mainly bartender 4, better wardrobe and transmog and KuiNameplates but even then those wher downloaded almost 2 weeks ago and the frame dropping only just started happening today

im a bit scared to uninstall all my addons and such tho i dont wanna loose all the bars and profiles i have set up

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Some numbers plz. Also qhat are your PCs specs?

You can just try if disabling them helps, you don’t have to uninstall them.

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i have a GTX 1080 16GB of ram and a AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core Processor 3.00 GHZ

the temp mostly stayed around 40-50 degrees

the only thing with trying to dsable to addons wich i have done now its very random when it happends sometimes it happend 5 min after reloading then sometimes it takes 2 hours or so (i usally play allot for long stretches) also idk if it matters but the reload loading usally takes a while when i do it after my frames drop

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Maybe it is a memory leak, when the FPS drops start, check the RAM usage of WoW.exe.
It should be around 3GB or less.

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You can rename the folder. Or even trying with disabled. Addon settings are not deleted just like that. Quite often some of them do cause such problems.

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i saw it at around 2,900mb when i was in dazar but spiked up to 3,500mb i went around to other places like taking a portal to old dalaran and such

might be on to something yeah i never see it take up so much memory before il look up some videoes for memory leaks

Edit:i aslo have been noticing the game will just freeze sometimes its pretty rare but for like 5-7 seconds it just stops idk if that has anything to do with memory but yeah, also i tried all the things that should fix memory leaks aka resetting the computer and such but the memory taken seems to not change much

i watched this video to learn about it and fixing it idk if he is reliable but he seems to know what hes talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSDAJNCVhjs&t