As per thread title I suddenly have the game randomly freezing but only while in combat, since I patched it this morning. There’s not even fps drops, running fine at 60 fps then suddenly the client doesn’t respond and seems about to crash (time varies between 5-20 seconds), then back to normal. Played until past 1am last night and everything was working smooth as butter as usual, so it’s clear the patch affected something. It’s rather annoying since it can happen once in a while or 5 times within 2 minutes, making the game highly unplayable since I keep dying because of it.
What I noticed and might be of some kind of indication is that it happens only when there’s also other players in combat either on my same target or nearby in the open world, and while being grouped up in instances. So far I never had it happen while being on my own (regardless if in combat or not)
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For some reason it posted while having a deleted character selected >.>
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Having the same issue, are you using AMD GPU as well?
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I am also having this issue. Was fine until this new patch. Using an AMD card.
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AMD driver issue maybe? Seems to be only in combat for me
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Updated driver to latest version. T ested away from the new cavern area by going in combat with the target dummy in valdrakken - the issue persists. Using a Radeon 6700 non XT card.
Just fully wiped and reinstalled mine, same issue
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I engage in combat, good for 30 sec or so, insta freeze for 10-30 sec and back
I haven’t had a freeze since disabling all add ons . Hoping that is the answer to this.
In high combat around people?
The funny thing is that I don’t have a single addon installed. So it must be separate from that.
I’ve been trying to see if I can force the issue to replicate, but it seems to be completely random. Tried different classes, staying melee, going ranged, still happens. Once again, doing quests/WQ on the Dragon Isles on my own and haven’t seen it happen yet. On the contrary, it happens at least once whenever I am in a dungeon (either DF ones or Timewalking). In the last TW dungeon I’ve done on my shaman it only happened once, during a boss mechanic switch (Grand Magus Telestra splitting into her mirror images), for example.
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Tested on the world boss and it didn’t happen. Updated all add ons now and will test further.
turned off all my addons and it still did it on target dummies in valdrakken
yep, it just froze again with no addons being used. No idea what to try now.
yeah no luck here, can’t work out the issue or fix, no pattern now
Don’t think there’s anything we can do until Blizzard fix it. Noticed on the US forums they reported the same issue yesterday. I’m disturbed that Blizzard didn’t even acknowledge the thread with a blue post.
for me the freeze specifically happens on monk when Xuen despawns
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As a temporary solution, try to switch DirectX to 11 - solved an issue. Untill they fix will play with DX11
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also happens when playing BM hunter , when a random Dire Beast spawns .
had a freeze when tried to open island expedition window also
changing to dx 11 solved the issue