yo this worked for me, i have ZERO stutter at all when i disable ingame sound. what the hell is this, blizzard should fix this asap i dont wanna play the game without ingame sound
you dont even have to restart the client, it works without any reload or restart
Its not workin for me 
That “sound fix” doesn’t work on any systems I’ve tested, just stabilizes frametime slightly.
Its odd that it is even related to sound. Would be nice to have blizzard comment on this. It is not a “fix” for sure. Playing without sound is not an option long term.
this work for me. zero stutter smooth gameplay… oh really good.
Do you monitor your frametime with RTSS and get zero stutter when new players load it? If so, people need to post all specs because I’ve tested around 25 PCs now with sound off and it has no effect.
I have zero stutters after I turn off sound in game. My spec is:
Win 10 Pro 22H2
Nvidia 3070 Ti - latest drivers.
Intel(R) Core™ i7-9700KF CPU @ 3.60GHz.
32 GB Ram.
Monitor ASUS VG248 - 144 Hz.
Edit:
I’m running game without addons right now, clean install. So, can’t blame them as Pawgwalker from US forum want it.
Guys just unsub untill its fixed,not that you losing nothing special in therms of content too.
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it look like high gpu usage is back again for me. Yesterday 40-50%, now 90-100 … oh comooooon
Same for me. Last night before patch happily running high GFX settings at 60+FPS. After patch today I’m getting max 15FPS with the exact same settings, anywhere, any amount of people. GPU is maxed even in background all from WoW. Removed all addons and set everything to lowest settings and I can get around 60FPS which is dire. Move one notch up and it’s 30FPS. Something broke over night for me and no other game is showing the same issues. Putting addons back in changes nothing.
I had hopes it’s going to change anything today but instead it’s even worse. Stuttering is still so bad and I don’t know what is more annoying suttering or Blizzard arrogance and lack of communication. Do we have customer support in EU? There wasn’t a single replay from blues here about this for the past two months. This is unacceptable.
It’s real bad today with all the people online and storm events.
Well I decided to throw some money at the problem and buy an AMD RX 6900XT to try instead of my Nvidia 3080TI , as it’s been suggested that this stuttering mainly (or only) happens on Nvidia cards. I’m fed up waiting for the game to be in a good, playable state as I haven’t even set foot in the new zones yet while waiting for this problem to be fixed.
And the result was… basically no difference, still has the stuttering on the AMD card as well.
One thing of note, switching off sound (even without re-starting the game) gets rid of nearly all the stuttering when using the 3080TI, whereas with the 6900XT disabling sound (even with re-starting the game with no sound) doesn’t make any difference, it still had the stuttering.
So my Nvidia card is back in my PC and if anyone would like a 6900XT cheap let me know, haha. Hey at least I tried something, which seems to be more than Blizzard is doing at the moment…
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Yeah, my experience with a ton of different hardware, and benchmarks/latencymon is basically; it’s the game.
The only thing that resolve the stuttering for me is disabling the sound in the audio settings… yeah literally. Nice one Blizzard
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I’m terribly frustrated of how this game runs… It’s old as hell, and yet still can’t be optimized normally. From the patch of Season 1, everything seems to become even worse, especially when so many people rush in online. Everything is so bad in the evenings, I can only enjoy my game with minimum lags, freezes and stutters at like 7am - 12pm, when is the least people are online.
Valdrakken is a show of lags, stutters and freezes… Every time I get back there to turn in my quest, I just pray to get out of there as soon as possible. I have never had such terrible lag in cities before pre-patch. I can’t enjoy the flying on my dragon, I miss rare spawns because this idiotic game struggles to load 1 enemy and 1 hunter with 2 dogs lol. The rare is killed before I hit it.
I have no idea what Blizzard is doing when there are almost 60k views on the same topic in US thread, and it keeps being updated daily with people who let everyone know that it becomes worse.
I’m even more amazed that many people with this issue had to turn off the sound in the game. And so I had too. I’m not a player who plays game without a sound, and I’m disgusted that the billion $ company with so many workers in it can’t do anything for months and doesn’t seem to do since there are 0 updates. Why do we have to turn off the sound, make graphics worse and make our experience even worse? Jesus.
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Same with gpu driver crashes and system freezes that require reboot also got stuttering at times, but issue i suffer most from is aset loading is bugged at times i see certain things not rendered or spawned in i noticed this especially after leveling second character even more on third.
How can you have a bug where npc’s does not spawn and say authoritarian regime to the curve joke
Its very random and very frustating game is defiantly bugged its been bugged for years, even had bugs where lines get repeated more then once then 3 times but now we also have a bug where we miss it this is not how the game should be running.
List the known issues and fix them, stop being ignorant im already frustated that AMD is ignorant with their driver issues, i don’t need Blizzard doing the same, the expansion has been out for more then a week now.
It started stuttering yesterday for some reason, the game essentially turns into a slide show. Most noticeable in Azure Span, even outside of Soup hours and with few people farming Assembly. It has been mostly fine since expansion launch day.
Guys talking here wont change a thing,they have the 12 month subs from the whales,nothing is gonna be fixed,enjoy the new wow with stutters and slowdowns.