Very slow loading visuals

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I have an SSD. I still suffer the same slow asset loading as everyone else here.

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i deleted the wow data folder (well, renamed it) and let the game reinstall it. solved the asset loading delay for me. Would recommend you try it

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I have an SSD and I had this issue. Renamed the Data folder and let the game install it again helped.

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I have a new gaming pc and all drivers are up to date and dxdiag doesn,t show any errors. Anyway when I log in wow sounds makes strange noise and fps drops badly. Sometimes if I wait about 10 mins game stars working normally, but not always. I also have 500 GB ssd drive, but dont know what is wrong with wow.

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It’s the same doesn’t matter what. I have it on SSD and at some point its gonna start loading slow, then it fill work fine. So that’s blizzards fault not your hardware

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Same here.
I have SSD and dear Lord…the game has issue with loading the textures SUPER slow when entering/loading the first time.
Dazar’alor, Boralus, Legion Dalaran, Garrison…etc etc, even when entering raids.
It’s really annoying and makes it look like I have a potato PC.

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Although I have 7200RPM on my HDD, this problem occurred to me as well.
My solution was literally installing it onto my 256gb SSD. I was shocked that this actually worked. Since on every forum that I read people state that around 7200RPM is needed.

Solution > Install on your SSD.

If that doesn’t work:

  • Try re-installing World of Warcraft completely.
  • Run the game without any AddOns.
    If your game runs smoothly after not having any AddOns, try re-installing the AddOns you had one at the time, to see which AddOn produces this problem.

I really hope you can all figure this out. Since this slow loading of asset is annoying and unpractical.

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It does not matter if you have a 5400, 7200 or 10k RPM HDD, it is mechanical and has to rotate and seek the data first before actually “reading” it.
A SSD has instant access to the data and nowadays a MUCH higher bandwidth on top.
Shadowlands even has a SSD as minimum requirement afaik.

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I suppose I’m kind of necroing this thread but just in case anyone else arrives here with the same issue: I had my game installed in a different SSD from the operating system (I have 2 SSDs and thought it would be neater to have games in their own partition). I’ve now moved the whole game to the same SSD & partition as the OS and assets are loading instantly–we’ll see if it stays that way. Good luck & hope this helps someone!