Randomly when playing, WoW will make my CPU go up to 90-91 degrees and “lock” itself there. Idk how dangerous this is, but it does make me uncomfortable. Restarting the game fixes it, goes back down to 70-75 in cities and about 80-85 in dungeons during combat.
This also seems to be sorta of related to the whole “wow not shutting down after exiting” thing, because often I have to end task when I notice the CPU temps. But sometimes, it does just shut down on its own.
It’s definitely not related to my PC as I’ve checked everything, further confirmed by the fact that restarting the game does make CPU temps normal again until it decides to bug out again.
Just very strange things happening in wow lately. Oh, and also world ping being weird in open world, seems to be okay inside instances like dungeons and raids.
Edit: CPU is Ryzen 9 5900X & CPU cooler is Dark Rock Pro 5
Anyone else experiencing this?
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Some info on your CPU and cooling would be helpful 
CPU temp is always a PC thing, always. Software just uses what they need within the allowed boundaries. If your CPU temp spikes (too much) from it, it’s most likely dusty fans or the paste gone dry.
Anyways, 90 degrees celcius is no issue for a cpu. I think around 100 it starts to throttle (severely decreased performance) to prevent it from actually over heating. If it even then oversteps the thresholds, your PC shuts off to a black screen and running fans till it actually shuts down.
I’ve been experiencing a similar issue. Temps are usually 60-65c in cities/idling and in 70’s in combat, but sometimes, even when I’m sitting doing nothing, I’ll hear my fans and check temps to see it at 80-85c for around 20 seconds before dropping to normal.
Since the patch 11.2.0, I have observed the same behavior. The game or whatever is associated with the game makes very intensive use of the CPU, causing it to overheat.
I noticed this because when I was playing, I heard the CPU fans making more noise than usual. Since I always have Afterburner open, I checked and saw that while the game was running, the CPU was being used heavily. When I closed the game, the wow.exe process remained open, meaning that the game did not close completely and I had to force it to close. When this process was closed, the CPU returned to normal. When I restarted the game, everything was normal.
I have observed this issue on at least two occasions.
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Weirdly this happens frequently in empty old world areas and not in crowded raids. Raid performance can still be horrible but nowhere near as intensive and this is not something you would expect from the Embassy subzone in SW.
Occasionally the application’s icon on the taskbar will be missing and the game will run like garbage whenever the program starts up this way, on top of failures to launch or improper shutdowns.
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I have noticed the icon missing, though haven’t made the correlation. It is very strange, I’d really like this to be fixed, it’s giving me anxiety to even play… 
What I did notice is when the CPU spikes and “locks” if I go to dornogal to the hub area where the bank and delve thing is with lots of ppl, the issue kinda “fixes” for a time.
