I’ve been playing TWW for two weeks or so and everything has been smooth in terms of loading times, FPS and alt-tabbing. I had no issues up until the day before last (I didn’t play yesterday). This morning I log in and immediately there are problems with FPS in Dornogal. I did a few skyriding WQs in Hallowfall and Ringing Deeps and they didn’t go well (also FPS related). Loading screens seem to take longer and hover around 3/4 for a bit.
A complete restart didn’t help. The install is fresh, also about two weeks old. No add-ons. No changes in settings (Ultra High). No changes of any kind. (Maybe an unseen update of something?)
Any pointers? Where should I look and what should I be looking at? What can I try? Thanks!
I didn’t figure it mattered much, as I didn’t change anything. Although I did physically snap my RAM in half, but that just makes it twice as fast, right?
Intel Core i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Some sort of SSD with 40gb free still
Windows 11 23H2 (I read there’s a 24H2 now?)
That enough? I don’t know if that’s any good or not, but good enough to run the game smoothly on ultra high up until two days ago, apparently. I also read there was some sort of maintenance yesterday? Should’ve called it worsenance, amirite.
Eh? No? It halves it’s speed, duh! But now you have 16GB, at least.
Unless you stuck them into the same slot again, then you only halved the speed, 'cause now the bits have to jump over a gap…
Yep, it is.
But if you should install it, that nothing I will tell anyone I don’t know. Too much I don’t know about any downsides of these updates (I myself update everytime when something get’s updated and only revert if I get any issues).
As for WoW: I don’t have any issues regarding loading times, FPS, ping, etc.
Could be anything
I read there are also issues with alt-tabbing that were ascribed to 24H2 specifically.
Really anecdotal, but: yesterday I took a flight path from Dornogal to Dunelle’s Kindness in Hallowfall. The loading screen in the tunnel (Coreway?) was extremely slow. When it was finally full, it started at 0% again. Again, really slow to fill. When I spawned I was stuck in the sky on a flight master mount on the border of Hallowfall.
What sort of loading times you had before compared to now? Same for FPS.
Dornagal and other major cities are not very good for making comparasision as load in them is heavily dependedant on how many players there are (more players, less fps).
If the issue is mostly with just loading screens I would verify that your SSD is working correctly.
Hard to say, because everything was running smoothly I didn’t pay it much mind.
All I know is:
I didn’t have any problems while doing skyriding (either WQs or regular transport) in Khaz Algar before. Now it’s often quite choppy.
I didn’t have any problems while doing the various quests in and around Dornagal.
2b) Specifically mounting up at the Dornogal inn and quickly skyriding to the portal. Which is now choppy every single time.
Loading screens is the one most likely to be confirmation bias, but I definitely didn’t have double loading screens before.
Windows says the SSD is ‘healthy’. Way back I played Dragonflight on my HDD, which was a similar experience. I thought maybe some paths got crossed and I was playing on my HDD again, but not really.
I would try without any addons and with entirely clean UI - that is relatively quick way to lure out any buggy addons (they can easily cause stuttering or other problems). You can rename WTF/Interface folders to avoid having to reinstall the addons if the problem persists without addons.
After that I’d probably check the SSD health in more detail. You can use either the manufactruer’s diagnostic tools or something like CrystalDiskInfo to get basic info about it and see if there is anything outright wrong (though obviously tools won’t be able to detect everything).
I used CrystalDiskInfo, thanks! It didn’t find anything wrong, health is at 95%.
However, it did give me an idea: the manufacturer split the SSD in two partitions for reasons unknown. One was still empty. I did a fresh install on there and I’m currently flying through Dornagal on ultra high again, with a steady FPS of around 50-60.
Still don’t know what the issue was, but at least it’s working normally again.
If SSD partition gets full the disk performance can reduce drastically. In general there is no reason to split the disk to multiple partitions unless running multiple operating systems (even then it’s easiest to use entirely different disks).
Ideally you should have deleted the unused empty partition and extended the existing partition to have just one partition on the drive. Windows tools can extend partition to empty space, but if you do that make backups of any important files, settings etc.
Yeah, although I still had about 40gb free on there. Is that not enough? Maybe the number was inaccurate?
I did look into extending the original partition, however there’s a recovery partition in the middle, so I couldn’t connect the two through regular means and I gave up. Thanks again!
Ouch yeah, recovery partition middle can mess things up. If you ever need to do a clean reinstall Windows I recommend booting from USB and removing all existing partitions before installing Windows again. That should create more sensible partition structure with boot etc. partitions at beginning.
OEMs often have weird images for their computers due to varying sizes of disks they use.
