Blizz also removed the shader line from config file, and it disappears if you try to add it back in. The problem is definitely 100% gpu usage that reduces performance and causes some stutters and lower fps, than before prepatch.
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Probably because the media hasnt made enough music about it YET
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ever increasing ram consumption. barely playable after 20 minutes.
log in to wrath zone it starts with 2.5gb ram. afk for 20 minutes and it is north of 5gb stuttering and unplayable. i know 6gb ram hardware is laughable at this point but cmon.
I just want to goof around older zones for nostalgia. why do i need 5gb to afk in goldshire…
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A friend had this issue, the game was running at 12-15 fps but during cutscenes it went up to 40fps+, here’s what we did to fix it:
If the shader console command didn’t work for you then try using DirectX 11 Legacy, you can find the option on System>Graphics>Graphics API
DX11 legacy is a bad idea. Legacy does not support multicore. In my case, swapping from 12 to legacy is huge 20-40 fps loss only in Open World. Switching from 12 to normal 11 is about ~10-15 fps loss. So, for me only 12 is real option.
Enabling Triple Buffering in the options → Graphics → Raid and BGs.
Somehow it was disabled through the patch and now I am bag to lag free.
Best of luck to you guys!
yesterday it was ok for me - but todays - 10/30 it was an update and game us unplayable - dropped from 144 fps to 20 - 30 on rtx 3080.
tried to enter those text in to Config.wtf - but it gives nothing. pls revert it blizz !
Mine is always enabled. Disabled or enabled doesn’t solve problem with massive fps loss. Epic BGs still not playable with Settings 1 on GTX 1070. Raids still 30-40 fps with lowest settings. Nothing, literally nothing helps. Only workaround with shaders cache works, but it fixes only stuttering, not fps loss.
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Same problem here as of today. Yesterday was fine.
Certain game elements - am not sure if it’s textures, animations, even could be sounds - cause my FPS to tank. One example is the room in the Soulforges wing of Torghast which consists of just the lava pool and some falled rocks to jump over them. My FPS goes to <10 there.
During Raid on the Stone Legion Generals I completely lagged out with a frame update every 30-90 seconds until the fight was over. The same happened when Remornia is talking after Denathrius is defeated. Cleared up when the talking (and animation around the sword) was over. Then again on a trash fight in the third wing (of LFR in Castle Nathria) down to a frame every minute.
During the pauses the CPU shows around 20-25% use, the GPU 0%.
There’s absolutely nothing logged of interest.
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will my computer explode? 
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Ardenweald is super HOT zone 
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Only a few days till my sub runs out. Guess no Dragonflight for me if this does not get fixed before my sub runs out.
PC fans are blowing like crazy when in WoW.
I don’t notice performance problems BUT; you can’t do anything else now when WoW is running, because of insane GPU usage.
Also, rendering objects is much slower and distance at which they’re rendered is MUCH lower too. Now I can’t see Boralus stands and crates when I take off into the air.
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Absolute nonsense from the development team. Even if they don’t work right now on the problem, at least they should announce what they will undertake for the issue. This is total absurd waiting like almost a week in that I even cannot play because of this lag spikes and fps stutters… That’s a sub off for me and I am kinda regretting buying Dragonflight.
I even wrote a ticket with my Dxdiag/msconfig information but my ticket status is “open” from almost 5 days and nobody even answers it.
Can we have proper support for things that we actually pay? I am astounded how Blizzard doesn’t even care and guiding players to delete Cache folders when obviously there is a game client issue and everyone complains about it.
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The support is completely understaffed and probably overworked too. You can throw tickets in the bin. I know from two people who didnt get their ticket (on another, older topic) answered in over TWENTY days. I canceled my own ticket after 7 days.
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i goin through the same issue, but that only happened after i preordered the expansion, im dealing with slow loading in-game and loading npc, players etc, and stuttering sometimes even chunks of stuttering or loading, i have rtx 3070, 64GB ram, and intel(r) i7-10700k 3.80GHz
We got an update from devs 6hrs ago on US forums.
They’re working on it.
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hahaha DF client.
Same stuff is happening in WOTLK. Unplayable!
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stuttering Continues,even questing in world
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Stuttering continues hard in Oribos / Orgrimar and any place where 10+ players are present.
I had no sutch issues before the patch. Ran at max graphic settings doing 40 man BGs with no frame issues untill 2 weeks ago when the patch landed.
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i5-9600K CPU @ 3.70GHz 3.70 GHz
GPU: NVDIA Gforce RTX 2060 SUPER
RAM: 32 GB
Storage is 500gb SAMSUNG 970 EVO
The hardware is not an issue… im certain.
Please devs → work on this on prio. Its really annoying.
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