WoW Freezing Randomly and GPU Drivers resetting

[Datheril-draenor]

First of all this topic is purely informational. As of now I no longer seem to experience the problem. I am thankful for Tech support team Yorcoril & Ixzal for their detailed and quick replies. None of the suggestions worked but helped me find the culprit. That is why I am opening this topic because I could not find my solution among the forums.

If you are using Nvidia Graphics and experience random freezing in open world or dungeons for 5 to 30 seconds, your graphic drivers reset and all assets reload. Sometimed give 3D Acceleration could not be started error; the culprit may be

drum roll…

GeForce Experience. Not only the overlay, but the program itself. I don’t know the reason behind it but I could trigger the same problems as soon as I installed Geforce Experience again. When I removed the program (including registries) it worked properly again.

Again if this post seems useless, I don’t mind deletetion but if it helps even 1 more person I’ll be happy.

Thanks all, have a nice game.

[Trovlak-aggramar (Trovlak)]

The GeForce Experience program has been known, for a long time, to cause problems with games. Not just WoW, but quite a few games.

The problem is, a lot of people refuse to believe that its GeForce Experience thats the problem, and assume it MUST be the game.

[Shockdmyself-draenor]

So you’re saying the game don’t have any performance issues?

[Datheril-draenor]

The game has issues but this one was the source of my problem. I just put it here so people would see GFEx could cause the problem

[Yrenne-argent-dawn]

This sounds very similar to what happened to me today. I made a thread about it. Did you also get this nvlddmkm error in your Event Viewer?