Today I got really curious for this WoW crashes, I started check few months ago, if the new AMD drivers don’t have some terrible faults, yet everything people complain was just not true for me.
I own Radeon RX 7600 from 2023.08, and I had maybe 1 crash, and few LONG loading freezes flying in/out of Zaralek Cavern, but after some driver update in august/september even the loading freezes were gone, and those first time loadings doesn’t bother me.
So the Questions:
What Windows version+build do you have ? what language ? if is it ENG is it US or UK/other ?
Do you use Smart Access Memory/Resizable BAR ? do you have XMP/EXPO on ?
Do you use Sleep/Hibernate ? or only the the default hibernate aka “shut down” (from Win8 default shut down is driver/win-settings hibernate, not shut down, to load new settings/driver you need to restart, if you have hibernate on)
What kind processes run in your background ? for example when you play WoW, is GameBarPresenceWriter.exe
present ? RGB control apps ? MSIAfterburner ?
Did you turn off all the xbox features in Windows 10/11 ? recording, some overlay
Did you turn off all AMD things from services/start up/Task scheduler ?
if you don’t use audio through HDMI, did you disable HDMI audio ? (Device manager=> disable device)
are you using HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI ?
Is your World of Warcraft in Program Files or somewhere else ?
These I saw someone mention before or are obvious, but I will just write it to be sure :
have OS+WoW on SSD,
turn off Windows driver auto updates,
turn off all things in AMD adrenalin software, like change the tessellation mode AMD optimized => Use application setting; turn everything AMD optimized into Use application setting
everytime DDU(Display Driver Uninstaller) => then Install new drivers, install the minimal version, not FULL(noone needs the bloatware); NEVER use update feature in adrenalin software
Turn off HW Acceleration everywhere - Discord,Chrome,Firefox,Steam, Video players below 1081p, Windows: search for DisableHWAcceleration
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics
;
in WoW set max foreground 60-140FPS (that limit max fps to your monitor)
NOT using in WoW Spell density:Dynamic, pick any other option;
NOT using in WoW Target FPS; (all this dynamic #### just clog/slow your SSD/RAM/PC, you load all the time 2+ more different size shaders/textures for no good reason…)
NOT using any AMD things like fidelityfx cacao,FSR (still in WoW setting)
Delete AMD shader cache and after that do “Scan & Repair” (steps 1-3 Cache in WoW + Battle.net reinstall) (when your WoW folder is definitely NOT in Program Files)
Maybe some light/shadow/liquid setting is bad, so use only the 2.-3. highest setting
never play WoW until everything is downloaded 100%
2024.09.22 : Removed the VSync ON, for some reason VSync ON is actually bad for the mouse, so maybe it does some other bad things