So as tittle is mentioned, I feel like im having insane long loading.
When I for instance going to new Dalaran, using HS, My charecter is just standing still. I can see on the map that I’m moving, but my char is just standing still, looking all black. it can take several seconds ( minutes ) b4 i can do anything.
Also just by using HS to dalaran takes forever in loading screen.
This problem mentioned above is happening in lots cities.
Also some times when I select charecter on selection screen, it takes some seconds for the charecter to appear.
even spellbook take times to load some times…
In some mythic plus when i start, it does the same.
Altho when I am in raid, I have no problems at all. Or when I am in older content zones.
This is my PC Speccs:
ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING
ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 ROG Strix OC
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 16GB
ASUS ROG RYUO 240
Corsair Force Series MP510 480GB
My mate told me, that it could be the loading to me Screen ?
When you load into a city many things happen, your client get informed of all the other people nearby, their locations, what gear they’re wearing, all their movements, the location/names/gear of all the NPC’s, the trade chat (spam) messages. Basically you’re downloading a lot of information, all very tiny, but just a enormous amount of it.
If you happen to be on WiFI i would plug in an Ethernet cable if you can, to see what difference that makes.
I know you said your PC has an SSD storage. How ever, does it also have a standard HDD? If so check to make sure your World of Warcraft installation is installed on your SSD.
Problems like this are often associated with a slower RPM regular harddrive, when WoW is best run on a SSD.
I came back near the end of Legion. I started playing and this issue, which I have too, didn’t exist until patch 8.1. It just came up and hasn’t been gone since. I think it is in relation to Blizzard’s attempts to optimize loading times. Right now when I’m loading in to Orgrimmar or Dalaran I need to wait around 1 minute after the loading screen is done before things are actually done loading. It’s really bad and didn’t exist until relatively recently.
Yeah, well, it’s often associated with slower RPM HDD’s (but not exclusively).
In Shadowlands, an SSD is on the -minimum- PC requirements to play the expansion.
The problem is not everyone has this issue. I take around 5 seconds on average to load into any major city hub, and if I’m pushing it, I’d go to 15 seconds on my computer with an SSD.
I can’t say the same for my other computer which only has a regular HDD, and although it runs the game smoothly, loading screens are a pain in the butt. I also have to wait for graphical detail to load in.
So whilst it’s frustrating, it’s not fair to slam on the “Blizzard’s fault” brakes - but I can agree, the game is definitely optimised to play on an SSD more so than a regular HDD since Legion and BfA.
How ever some people appear to have the issue whilst even on an SSD, so they’ll need to look at other potential problems on their PCs. I’d suggest graphic driver updates, Windows updates, and making sure there are no other conflicting programmes in the background running.
As this began in 8.1 and this is where the majority of complaints began, I think it is fair to slam Blizzard. They don’t get to ruin the game’s performance and say “well just buy a new PC”. The game ran great in 8.0. I get that WoW’s specs go up with time, as graphics also improve. That’s fine. The cast shadows, the Legion water, the new and upgraded models - all of those are bound to make the game require a beefier machine. But 8.1 didn’t bring anything new that would require me to move a 70GB game to an SSD, I’m sorry.
EDIT: Just in general, it’s worth having a system SSD and I think most modern PCs have it by default. I have a 120GB SSD, and I just don’t have enough space for WoW and Windows and then enough left over for a healthy system.
HOWEVER, I got to thinking yesterday… every time I load into somewhere, the first time is slow, but then every other time is quite quick. I think it’s because WoW caches things in Windows’ pagefile, and as that is stored on my SSD, WoW can actually read data from the SSD even if the game isn’t installed on it. I’ll test by increasing my pagefile size (it is 4GB now, I’ll make it 16) and see if that comes with a major improvement to loading times in longer sessions.
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