So for a few months already,since may or soo my game has been pretty bad,fps going to 100+ then dropping to 10 or below,very weird,when i look at my task manager during gameplay my GPU is being only used 1%,just sometimes it jumps randomly to 40% usage,while my CPU is stable at around 40% usage it doesnt drop like GPU,is there a way to make them both work more? Also when i enter combat in the new event superbloom or when im in a raid,fps drops down to like 1,everything freezes
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Some hardware info would be helpfull 
Also, have you tried without addons?
Yep tried without addons same thing happens, ok so my hardware isnt the best,but it surely should not be dropping fps from 100+ to under 10 and freezing my pc 
i5 7400 3.00 ghz
gtx 1060 3gb
8 gb ram
like i said ive been playing this game for a few years now no issues at all,only recently ive began having these crazy fps drops,mostly when entering combat,but also when moving mouse around and flying,sometimes stuff just loads super slow too
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Same here. Stuttering since I reinstalled for 10.2
Was never an issue before then
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I even have severely low FPS in the âold worldâ, areas where a 3080 should not be struggling to reach 60fps at all (Ironforge subway, Stormwind portal room). Some people suggest downgrading Nvidia drivers, so it could be due to a driver issue that dropped around the same time as the pre-patch for 10.2 (because thatâs when I noticed worse fps playing time rifts).
So no idea if itâs something in 10.2, Nvidia drivers, or both.
Are you running the game off an SSD or HDD?
Please check the CPU and GPU temperatures while playing.
Use HWInfo to monitor and log temps etc.
Check if the CPU is throttling.
Im running the game off an HDD,GPU temp is like 40C,goes even below that i think thats pretty good,not sure about CPU temp tho,but im guessing not much also since its not using much,like i said only about 40% or soo? Ive played this game before from an HDD and had no issues what so everâŚi would be even satisfied to play with like 40 fps overall,but man its really hard to play when you drop to 2 fps or soo,and stays that way for a few seconds before going to 60+ or 100+ then going down to 10 or soo and vice versa
Thatâs a big bottleneck right there.
WoW definately needs to run from a SSD or faster, else you will have stutters from streaming too slowly.
To be honest, i donât know why anyone would torture themselves these days with playing from an HDD when SSDs are dirt cheap 
You can also check in the taskmanager if your HDD goes to 100% load when the game starts dropping FPS.
Same problem here. Very low fps (below 10) in the first minutes upon logging in the game.
It started a maybe a week before the new patch came live.
What i notice, is that when try to disable/enable addons for example, after i click the button the game becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. This also happens when i use âExit gameâ button in the menu.
And hereâs another thing - after game is seemingly closed already, the Wow process is still up in Task Manager for a minute, minute and half, after i left the game.
I usually browse various websites while playing/waiting for queues, and chrome eats a lot of memory (memory usage is very high with both wow and chrome, but never 100%), but now its really not comfortable to browse while playing. It feels like now Wow uses more of the memory than 2 weeks before.
But i had the game on HDD for years,no issues at all,only started recently like i said,got my windows on SSD,dont really wanna mix up games with windows on the same drive Wonder if there is a way to download older drivers from nvidia,i was on their official site but didnt find any like year or two old,since my gpu 1060 wouldnt really benefit from driver updates nowadays i guess since those are mostly desired by high end GPU right?
So i might wanna go for the most stable/balanced driver i could find
You can mix windows with games no problem.
Got WoW and other games on C: toođ
There is an archive of older drivers on the Nvidia website but no idea how far back it goes.
Oh and btw, donât forget that since DF we have dragonriding which obviously increases the amount of data that has to be streamed while flying so much faster by alot.
While it is worthwhile to move the game to an SSD (especially when you get stuttering exclusively in the first minutes of a play-session) the stuttering issues introduced recently are not affected by this.
I run the game on a high-end PCIe-4.0 SSD, so I look at maybe 1-2 seconds of loading screen (more if I have a lot of addons enabled).
The low FPS happen to me in low-complexity scenes as well - GPU usage is at under 30%, the GPU fan is not even on, all my CPUâs threads are bored at under 10% usage. And yet - only 40fps in some areas in Stormwind.
They are bored except one thatâs getting hammered because the engine is very singlethreaded.
Nothing we can do except turn down settings that have an impact on the CPU like draw distance and environmental detail.
Also some addons, especially nameplates and WAs.
Hi Bakicaa, as Aimjinx mentioned using a HDD for WoWâs installation can cause performance issues.
Since Dragonflight the System Requirements were updated to require an SSD for installation as HDD data speeds are too slow for the game now.
Try moving the game installation to your SSD and testing with it installed there.
same here ,game stutters a lot running around in STORMWIND,fixed frames vsync,used to be the smoothes game around xD oh blizzard what did you do xD
game on ssd.
i think i did the right decision in unsubbing for good after season 1 ended, many patches that degraded the game performance,and never really got smooth like it was before.
no matter graphics on 1 or 10 same fps,but stutters a LOT.
my trust is over.
most important thing in a competitive game is its performance,not the whistles and mogs and graphics,not that they are good either.
this game SHOULD run flawless smooth like cs2,forza horizon 5 to name a few good online games.
heck,even lineage 2 reborn 1x that is a pirate server of a game known for its horrible engine is running smoother than wow.
because THEY CARE.
Itâs a CPU issue, take that from someone who just got a 4090 (not for WoW obviously) 
Those games are not comparable. Compare it to other MMORPGs and yes they run better most of the time because they use more than 1 CPU-thread (not counting audio).
then why it was good prior to new patch? same happened in start of df,and in khortia. i have i7 8 cores 4.8 ghz not even 40% usage in wow xD
ff14 dont stutter,gw dont stutter,lineage 2 dont stutter,elder scrolls online dont stutter.
stop defending ,the same bug happened in khortia launch and in df launch,game just stutter do i need to make a draw for you?
i dont really care if game not support more than 1 core,fix it then,why do they ask for so much money for the game then? if other games are free to play and run flawless?
gtfo.game is running like sh1t with last patch.not my pc.
also of it was my pc game would not be smooth after their âfixesâ in khortia and df launch and stuttery again on new 10.2 patch.
i play here many years and seen that happen many times,thats why i decided to not give 1 more euro to them.
just for curiosity i logged my free lvl 20 toon to run around stormwind saw 4 stutters,log off.
cba.
Did you even read what i said before quoting? 
They havenât âfixedâ it in 18 years, what makes you think they ever will?
I hate to say it, but some problems are sitting in front of the monitor 
I did some more tests yesterday and I cannot make sense of how the game reacts:
- I assumed that my ~58fps in Valdrakken are because the game is heavily CPU limited in the major city of the expansion
- However once I disabled VSync, my FPS went up to 122fps right then and there
- In the Caverns of Time the game suddenly drops down to 50fps and stays there (as if Vsync were enabled at 50Hz)
- Switching to Windows and back to WoW after a few seconds makes the game go back to 60fps
- Micro-stutters happen all the time (they definitely werenât there before the patch)
Usually I would use MSI AfterBurner to look at frame times and maybe check the exact usages of the GPU and CPU threads, but if AfterBurner is enabled, the game stutters by default anyway (I might need to switch to a different hooking mechanism).
I also will do some tests with Auto-HDR disabled, wouldnât be the first time that a game doesnât really play well with that enabled even though it should (The Witness is another game whoâs frame times go buck wild if Auto-HDR is enabled), though thatâd be a regression is it all worked just fine until 10.2.