Slow texture/UI loading

Hey friends!

I’ve been playing WoW on and off for the last few years, while I have had never issues like these before on this computer.

Every time I enter a new area by logging in the game, flying to a new location, teleporting whatsoever, the game has to load all the textures. This causes extreme frame drops in huge cities like Stormwind or making my character invincible by mounting up for half a minute. It’s REALLY annoying. I have to wait for a good minute or 2 every time before I continue walking/flying in a new area.

I’m kinda lost on what to do. So far I tried:

  • Reinstalling the game twice.
  • Reloading UI (through the help/FAQ/page I found)
  • Playing with and without addons
  • Tweaking game settings (no antialiasing/shading etc)
  • Drivers are up to date
  • I have a 3TB HDD where WoW is installed, I have around a 1TB free space
  • Internet connection is 250MB/s and upload 80, can’t be the problem
  • Lowering game settings won’t help (graphics, still has the same issue)

PC specs:

MSI GTX780
i5 4670k
8gb ram
1000GB free space on HDD
Windows 10 up to date with nvidia drivers up to date

Any help would be hiiiiighly appreciated!! Thank you so much.
Any input that could possible solve my problem

Kind and happy regards,
A fellow player

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Open a command prompt as admin. Type:

defrag C: /O /K /X

This could take some time so don’t do it before you want to play WoW in the evening.

RTX 2070
i5-9600k
16gb ram
And the game take 5 minutes to load everything… this is a joke Blizzard. Dalaran had these kind of problems, but now the whole game ! Fix it !