Help! Suddenly everything takes forever to load or never does!

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Please help! Unbearable load times have made my game unplayable! Until yesterday everything was fine, I played long into the night with no problem whatsoever, but when I logged in today nothing seemed to load properly!

First of all sorry for the long text, just trying to describe my problem the best way possible.

Here’s some of the problems I’m having:

  1. Super long loading screens - Usually they’re almost instant, maybe 30 seconds at most, but today I’ve been staring at 5 min loading screens, if not even longer.

  2. Item icons, skill icons, text boxes, everything takes time to load - Everything that used to just “be there” instantly is no more, items in my bag start as transparent, requiring a few seconds to appear. Same goes for almost everything else like special zone abilities, menus, even the character portrait needs almost a whole minute to appear.

  3. The maps take the longest to load, specially BfA zones - The map of the zone I’m in, eg. Zundalar, might appear after a while (a long while), but other BfA zones, including the islands themselves take an eternity to load. I’ve waited several minutes without them loading properly… Other zones seem to load quicker, but don’t appear instantly as they used to.

  4. World objects, textures and NPCs take time to load - Another thing that used to be instant and is no longer. The weird thing is that there seems to be little problem in loading players, I can see people running around just fine, but not the npcs!

  5. Ability effect lag - I can use my abilities just fine, everything works as it should with no lag… except I can’t see or hear any effect, all I see is the damage I’m doing. Then, after the mob is dead, most of the effects just rain down on the corpse, which sounds hilarious, and it would be if I weren’t so pissed off.

The game runs fine fps wise, except for a 1 sec stutter that happens as I’m moving that I suppose is caused by the world trying to load. If I get lucky enough to get both a flight manager and the map to load, then I get to see the world desperatly trying to come into existance and it hurts me, please help.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

  • Interface reset - I’ve done full reset and full reset with the addons back in; It makes little to no difference, loading problems persist but character portrait and minimap seem to load faster. (Here’s the addons I use: Bagnon, Bartender, DBM, GatherMate2, MogIt, TidyPlates and VuhDo.)

  • Repair game - seems to have done nothing.

  • Set PC and Nvidia power settings to max performance.

Here’s my PC specs:

16GB Ram
i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80Ghz 2.81Ghz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050
HDD 916GB (I don’t own a SSD unfortunatly)

I’m desperate, any help would be greatly appreciated.

TL;DR: Game was running perfect, turn off PC and go to sleep, next day game doesn’t load anything properly anymore. Long loading screens, no maps, no npcs, etc. Problem doesn’t seem to be internet connection; interface reset, game repair and messing with power options has little to no effect.

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Hello Aethiron,

I suggest that you check these suggestions here to make sure it isn’t a connection issue, although it pretty much sounds like one.

Kind regards

What’s your opinion?

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Thank you for your reply.
I have tested it, and it doesn’t seem to be a connection issue. There’s no lag in my movement and skill usage, and I can see other players moving and interacting with the world just fine. It’s the world and the UI that don’t seem to load properly.

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Try typing /console worldPreloadNonCritical 0 and see if it helps. It used to help some people with long loading times during Legion so maybe it still works.

Have you noticed similar slowdowns in other games or applications? Sometimes a hard disk/SSD about to fail can cause issues like this.

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My guess would be that either your HDD is dying (or just too fragmented) or that your RAM is overflowing.

Could also be that some app in the background is slowing down your system (like antivirus scan etc).

Check the taskmanger (go to advanced, look what your HDD is doing and how full your RAM is).

Try defragmenting your HDD.

PS: time to get a ssd :wink:

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Hi, I was so glad to read your post as exactly the same thing has been happening to me over the last few weeks and I thought it was my computer. Did you find a solution to the problem?

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Thanks for your replies guys.
Ran defraggler and my HDD only had 3% fragmentation, which I fixed. My PC is only 1 year old, so I doubt it’s dying already, nothing else is giving me problems, it’s only wow that doesn’t load properly.
Deleting the cache folder also seemed to help and it’s running better right now.

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Hi there, I’m still having this problem despite doing all the tests Blizzard advised me to. Now they are saying it’s a connection problem between my router and Blizzard server. Any advice?

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Heya. If previous tests showed a connection issue, it is likely different from what has been previously discussed here. Please run a WinMTR test and post the results here.

Have a few seconds to spare? Let me know how I’m doing!

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I have run a few tests and they say they aren’t too bad. Sorry have no idea how I can link the 3 tests which are on my desktop.

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Thank god someone else mentions this :slight_smile:

I have run a pingplotter to see exactly what happens and makes me disconnect while entering new zones or logging on or connecting to new shards.

137.221.65.91
137.221.79.33
137.221.78.73
137.221.66.45

These ip’s are struggling between my router and blizzard (these ip’s are blizzard’s ip’s according to IP location finder).