Admittedly, my PC is rather old but I’ve been able to play WoW on med-high settings with a decent experience. Around 60-70fps and about 20-30ms latency. I only use a small number of add-ons and I have tried switching them off for a while. Windows 10 and Nvidia drivers are up to date.
Everything was fine until recently I started experiencing a strange problem. Every-time I load into any zone, faction city etc. it always takes ages for all the visual elements, NPC’s, players and things to appear. At least 1or 2 minutes for everything to appear a few bits at a time. I load into a different zone and again, same problem.
It used to be pretty much instantaneous.
I am finally going to upgrade my PC and if still doesn’t improve, I don’t know what to think!
Any ideas?
Hey there.Im having problem with extremely slow texture loading when I log in.The first 20 seconds approximately are the worst,but problem is still there even later.
If I join BG it takes like 10 seconds to load boat in Seething shore,when It finally loads,it turns gray until it becomes normal.It takes some time to load near by players,map will always lag as hell,certain pieces of armor will load one by one and so on.This will sometimes cause stuttering.Absolutely everything is up to date.
PC Specs :
I5 4690
GTX 1050
Some random Toshiba HDD (will replace it with Samsung 860 evo SSD in a few days)
8gig of ram
This has been happening to me as well lately. I assumed that it’s because my PC is old, but your PC is better than mine and still the same problems. Any zone, city or instance I go to takes ages for everything to appear. It never used to be like this and BfA ran fine, even on my old PC.
As others have noted already this would mostly be down to hard drive speeds and running the game from an SSD should help where possible.
If you’ve got a lot of addons removing some you can live without might help speed things up as well.
Ultimately I guess the alternative would be to keep you at the loading screen until everything’s fully ready, which seems like a worse experience overall in most cases. I hope you can still manage!
I have an SSD dedicated to WoW only and the issue of texture pop in has begun since 8.3 along with the memory leak. I am writing here because it is a separate issue.
Turning down settings helps a bit, but leak eventually crashes the game. My main issue comes when I take a flight master in boralus tradewind market and want to fly to stormsong for example. Often along the way a freeze happens and then bunch of textures are painted black. Usually the mountains etc.
exact same thing for me, ever since 8.2 … everything worked sweet as a nut until then. Now 20 secs to load anything once I log in or transfer to a new zone. I tried the d3d9 trick on the additional command line argument, which worked for a few days then back to normal nonsense. Its only since 8.2, so you did something then to cause all this.
Any other response from blizzard?
I don’t use any addons whatsoever, so that’s nothing to do with the issue I bet.
its cuz the WoW since 8.2 got some sort of upgrade and the loading of textures takes soooo long, you need SSD have fast loading since 8.2 or maybe the latest HDD, but older HDD just wont cut it anymore…you either get SSD or get used to long loading screens like i did
Even the fastest mechanical drive is miserably slow compared to a first gen SSD
The actual problem is not the transferrate but the access time, since there are no mechanial parts in a SSD the drive does not have to waste time “seeking” the data.
Noone answered clearly so I will, at least I know this.
It’s a place of storage. SSDs are electronic and not mechanic like the cheaper older type of harddrive. That makes them a lot faster. Most people have both types in their pc, some have just one type. Check where windows is installed, that would be your SSD if you have one. Wow should be there too so check that and also see if you have space left. You can’t pack it full.
Edit: I would like to add: If you have a pc and not a laptop you have space to keep whatever storage unit you have present. Just add a new one. There might be space for several. Myself I have 2 mechanical (HDD) a SSD, a new superfast type of SSD called NVMe and there is still space for even more storage.
Sorry for my poor English, hope it’s understandable.
SSD stands for Solid State Disk (or Drive, depending on whom you ask).
Think of it like this…
A Hard Drive is a vinyl record player. The record has to spin, reach the correct speed, then an arm has to move out across the record to the correct location, then it has to read in the music that is encoded on the record, sequentially (one after the other). The analogy might be crude, but that is pretty much identical to how a hard drive works. A disk (known as the platters) has to spin, reach the correct speed, then an arm (known as the read/write heads) has to move out over the platters, to the correct location, then read in the bytes, 1 after the other. It is slow (in computer terms), but until recently it was the best technology available at consumer prices.
Now along comes SSD, where there are no moving parts at all. Data can be read or written to in any order, and because theres no need to move any read/write heads (seeking), their speeds are a lot faster. Think of them as MP3 players for computers.
I experienced this problem with an SSD drive too, but was not this serious. (For example, porting to Dalaran I had to wait like10-15 secs to load all characters, opening the mission table at Boralus , the windows appeared without textures for 5-8 secs.).
I deleted the data folder from the World of Warcraft folder, then let the launcher to redownload all 60 Gbytes of data.
And it worked. All graphics elements appearing almost instant after zoning, the mission table pops up without any missing textures.
