Video driver crash in World of Warcraft with AMD video cards (7900 XTX) on DirectX 12

Yeah this is always true, especially weakauras.

I only run dbm and elvui havenā€™t had any addon issues but my fps feels like it went down even more now.

has anyone noticed crashes?

You on Intel or AMD?

Some crashes but from memory spike usage on the new favourites login screen while trying to enter the game world. Otherwise everything in-game seems to be working fine.

I am seeing flickering shadows and shaders near rivers i have not been able to record it yet, but i will eventually show, i already forwarded issue to channels within AMD, i have not bug reported it yet, if anyone notices anything weird i recommend recording it and posting about it and bug reporting it to AMD.

Feels like pre patch messed things up as predicted just not in the way i think it would.

Try and disable Multithreaded Rendering and see if that fixes it.
If you carnt find it, there is a magifying glass at the top where you can search for it.

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Itā€™s not an AMD issue, i have the same shadow flickering with a 4090.

Pretty obvious its a game issue now, problem is if it was only issue on Radeon GPU they would be ignoring itr because of the small market share.

Was working fine for a couple hours, even went to RLP to test it and now itā€™s flickering again in Brackenhide :stuck_out_tongue:

Only thing that looks like a crash at this point is the game behaving as if there was just a driver timeout, without having a driver timeout where game just restarts within it self.

There is no log in event viewer indicating any driver timeout, as if the game decided to just crash it self before it had the chance to give a driver timeout.

Same here. Iā€™ve been testing my luck extremely hard. Hardware acceleration enabled in the usual all apps and enabled in Windows. EXPO for my RAM. PBO enabled, auto-overclock in driver settings. No FPS cap, neither in-game nor in driver. All settings set to max, MSAA x8, CMAA 2 both enabled. Not even a background FPS cap.

Havenā€™t managed to crash clearing all 3 Awakened raids. Havenā€™t managed to crash playing MoP Remix.

Can I finally get excited or is whatever update either Blizz or AMD decide to push next gonna ruin our enjoyment of the game again?

Can some one confirm that they experience this to ?
game behaves as if their was just driver timeout but without driver timeout where graphics reset in game ?

i have most features disabled but i ll try with everything on again on retail

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Nevermind. Just got a crash and it took a while to recover too. Maybe this is something that can be fixed with a clean installation or reseting the shader cache. Donā€™t know. Anyway, if itā€™s gonna be one crash in a while, itā€™sā€¦ okay I guess.

Oh and for whatever reason, the game switched to integrated graphics and behaved like I didnā€™t have a GPU. 6 fps.

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Getting back to mention that I clean installed both chipset and GPU drivers, with minimal install and still got a crash as soon as I logged in. Very disappointing.

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I have feeling the gpu driver crashes went from driver time outs to just partial graphic resets, during one dungeon i lost my ability to control character until i tabbed out and back in a few times, their defiantly still something wrong with the game.

Do i need to wait another 2 years for a fix just to play the game normally ?
Had 0 driver timeouts so far tho but only 28 hours on record since i started playing again.

I also do use autohdr this should just work no issue, its not like NVIDIA users are complaining about autohdr breaking the game.

Coming back to say that Iā€™ve been now led to believe that this might be a CPU issue rather than a GPU issue.

Thereā€™s a setting called ā€œPBO Enhancementā€ in my B650 Aorus Elite AX (rev1.2) motherboard. Normally this is disabled but that doesnā€™t mean Precision Boost Overdrive, which is AMDā€™s technology for boosting clocks, isnā€™t active at all. Thereā€™s options like ā€œ90 Level 1ā€, ā€œ90 Level 2ā€, ā€œ90 Level 3ā€ etc. Level X meaning the voltage offset or something and 90 being the degrees of temperature the CPU can get to before it starts throttling. Iā€™ve read somewhere that by default PBO is set to something similar to ā€œ80 Level 2ā€.

Today I set it to ā€œ70 Level 1ā€ in BIOS and since then itā€™s been quite a few hours without getting a crash. And thatā€™s coming from having double and triple crashes not only in retail but in MoP remix too, which used to be fairly stable before.

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There is a setting in bios for asus motherboards for example, performance enhancer, this is set to auto by default but if you have issues with cpu stability you wanna set it to default.

Im in linux problem solved