Having the same issue on both Warlock & Mage with a 6650xt, fully updated drivers. Switched to DX11 and seems to be working fine but fps is extremely choppy
We have passed on the reports about freezes with AMD cards. We can’t say if this is an issue with the game, or with something in the driver, but are investigating.
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Also having this issue with a 6700 (non xt). Only started after 10.1 launched. Has happened flying in to the new zone, in a dungeon and when an npc enemy dug underground.
Its obviously a Problem on the Game and not the driver.
I havent updated my driver yet and it was running well since 10.1 hit, now im getting freezes on every boss fight.
Especially on Eonar in Antorus, every crystal on the ship causes a freeze
Yeah I can also say that I had no issues with 10.7, only since 10.1 has hit have I had issues and initially I had the same graphics card drivers
I have since updated them and still experiencing the issue, seems to happy on M+ when a large number of AOEs drop or during world bosses in Zaralek during big AOE instances also.
I have rx 6900 xt and i never had any problems. But when 10.1 came i suddenly get like 5-10 sec freezes mid combat anytime there is a lot of action going on. I dont think its a driver problem. Its something in game.
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Hi guys, having same crashes after the patch , installed latest driver.
Crash is like happen to me in Arena mostly, game screen freezes for few sec while sound is still going on.
Oh i have pretty end game PC for a ‘‘WOW’’ my card is MSI AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
hey hey/ have freezes with my AMD 6800XT / I7-11700k / 32GB 3200 MHz. After patch 10.1 my game freezes like 4-10 sek. Rip me 4 +23 key -.- . I updated all drivers and reinstall windows / Del. all addons and put graphic setting on 1 but nothing helps … hope it will be fixt bevor S2 start s with new Rio
Freezes started for me yesterday, not Wednesday.
This happens specifically during boss fights. Not during trash mobs, or anywhere else in the game, just during boss fights when they’re close to dying or right after the encounter.
CPU Ryzen 7 5800X3D, GPU RX6750 XT
Update #1: And since I’m seeing people reporting Dx11 fixes it, I was indeed on Dx12 and have just switched to Dx11. Can confirm the issue has disappeared now.
Update #2: Thought I’d check the issue was indeed Dx12 by switching back to Dx12 and testing the issue had returned. But switching back caused an ACCESS_VIOLATION (Error #132 Fatal exception) in Wow.exe.
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I can confirm that changing to DX11 fixed the freezes to appear.
However, the issue seems not to appear randomly. I am playing together with my wife in the same room. We both have a RX 6600 and we had the freez every time at the same moment.
Yep, i’m playing monk, my friend have an AMD, and yep, he always has freeze when my xuen despawns.
Same issue, using AMD radeon 6600XT , ryzen 5 3600xt
Same issue. freeze in boss fights myth ++ , after reading this i know it was no lag spike. In Azure Vault I have had freeze in 3 runs this week, and always on second boss.
around an hour ago. a random player and I killed a rare in Zaralek Cavern. but there i froze 100% 4 times. And I was convinced I DC’ed. thats how frozen i was. Had not freezed before on rares. and i really killed a lot of them yesterday.
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Happens to me too and settings don’t seem to matter. Definitely a 10.1 issue with AMD cards at any driver version. Looks like the game engine soft-crashing or rebooting when stuff happens in combat.
I’m on a RX 6700 + R5 5600x combo and 32gb ram. Everything else runs totally fine.
Same for me with an RX6800XT (23.4.3 driver) and Ryzen 5 5600 .
- Froze and Windows return in The Nexus when Grand Magus Telestra splits into 3 mirror images.
- Crash in Halls of Lightning seconds after Ionar disperse into Sparks.
- Froze and Windows return on Shrine of the Storm when Aqu’sirr splits into three.
- Froze and Windows return after taking the portal to Torghast in The Maw.
Maybe related to the splitting element?
Changing to DX11 does the trick but it lowers my average FPS.
same, also on AMD, lost like half my fps in general, definitely not a driver issue as i was playing on the same driver prior to the patch without any problems, don’t have any addons either
game was already garbage but now they made it impossible to even play
Same issue, 6750XT. Has been happening every few mins in +22 and +23s but haven’t noticed it in lower keys. Rip.
Same problem for me, 6700XT random freezes around 30 seconds, seems like wow is shutting down then after a while it runs fine again… happens since last patch. Before no problems at all
I have a 6900xt and on DX12 it freezes a lot during boss fights. It happened the same on the PTR while I was testing, so it’s a problem of the 10.1 build.
I hope it gets fixed soon
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Having the exact same issue. Using AMD 6600XT as many people also do as I see in the comment section. Happens only after the 10.1 patch. I thought it was only happening at the Azure Vault, which is really unplayable for me, especially on second boss. However it has happened again in Timewalking dungeons and also while killing rares in Zaralek Cavern. The issue appears only in combat and instances. I haven’t tried the DX11 fix, as I see lots of people complaining about performance issues after that. I hope Blizzard fixes this soon. Game becomes quite unplayable and it’s so frustrating to be frozen for 10-30 sec only to find yourself dead again after the game comes back. Today in the Azure Vault the game literally froze more than 10 times. I can’t play Mythic+ or grouped content for now and that really sucks.