For the past few days, I have been experiencing severe “stuttering” lag in the game, mostly in Dungeons and Battlegrounds.
I have a constant 60FPS, but it looks as though I have 5FPS!! I’ve tried turning the graphics to minimum, makes no difference wether they are high or low. I have tried disabling all addons, makes no difference.
I have tried repairing the game files, updating drivers, addons etc. No difference. This is a fresh install of both Windows and Game, running on a high spec machine.
Check your CPU usage, it looks like processor is bottlenecking.
Definately the kind of stuttering you get with bottlenecking, however that’s most definately NOT the case!
I left TaskManager running (always on top view) while in-game to monitor this, and my PC usage is as follows…
CPU: 27%
RAM: 22%
SSD: 2%
GPU: 10%
I did a laggy world boss event and that was my system usage.
its not am having the same problem now i have played 24 hours straight without any of these problems i have not logged in for 15 hours since yesterday and when i logged in i played for 30 mins and than it was stuttering non stop its DEF A BLIZZARD THING
THIS ONLY HAPPENS ON WEEKENDS
Weekend = more populated server = more load to handle = input lag/stuttering
It looks logical if it’s only on weekends.
… THATS NOT HOW It works i am in burning steps this happened recently today since i updated the new patch
WHERE IS THE REPAIR BUTTON
i have played vanilla again since day 1 while watching stream and there was no stutters and i have played every weekend
This is caused by blizzard servers or your addon’s are not up to date. I’m experiencing huge input lag on retail in BFA zones even tho i have stable 60 fps.
i disabled all of them i am doing a repair right now
Try to remove your addons from interface folder and change name of WTF folder to WTFold, it will disable addons completely, disabling them on character screen is not really disabling addons.
so how do i update addons again i dont understand the new addon system.
Hello Azoth,
The system is still the same as always. You would have to visit the page you got the addon from and update it from there, or redownload the newest version.
As for a complete removal, I’d suggest to get through the steps from this article here
Kind regards
Kiemmaki
What’s your opinion?
thank you i just deleted all and playing without.
When I looked at TaskManager, I changed the view on the CPU from “Overall Utilization” to “Logical Processors” and was able to view all 12 individual cores. I noticed that the first one was at 100% and the rest were below 20%.
In TaskManager, I went to the “Details” tab and found Wow.exe and changed the “affinity” to not use core #0 but to use all the others. Basically I removed the tick in the box for core #0. I also changed the priority on the process to “high”. This immediately improved my game performance and it’s smooth as it should be.
Clearly it WAS bottlenecking, because the game client was not using the multiple cores fully, and dumping it’s load on only one single core.
On a side note, all addons, drivers and system are up-to-date. The game is “repaired” and also tried removing all addons, deleting cache, WTF folders etc. Nothing worked until I changed the affinity settings.
I hope this helps other people.
Had upgraded my GFX card like half a year ago and didnt feel like i was getting the same fps and smoothness as some of all the streamers ive been watching, now with this fix my stutter is gone and my avg. fps went from between 40-60 to never going below 150
That is how WoW is programmed, it uses one main core and a bit of some others.
There is no magic box that you can tick under windows to make the game more “multithreaded”.
WoW ist CPU-limited most of the time, especially when there are many players on the screen.