wow Potential Fix for FPS Drops and Stuttering After Dragonflight Pre-patch

[Starym 3,726]

 

Many players have been experiencing performance issues since the pre-patch arrived, specifically with FPS drops and stuttering. However, there seems to be a workaround to disable one specific graphics option which is helping some players, although not fixing it entirely for others.

And here's Marlamin (creator of WoW Tools) explaining the issue and solution as well:

Someone in the thread suggested setting GxAllowCachelessShaderMode to 0 (and then doing a gxRestart). Seems to have improved the situation a lot for me. Here's what it does if 1 (which it is by default). pic.twitter.com/bDJ4IKTKVG

— Martin (@Marlamin) October 26, 2022

[Arcling 823]

Yeah, this patch has some issues. Other than what was mentioned in this article, there is also a bug with Wintegrasp battleground, it can crash the game.

[vadren 2]

Hey, I created this topic on reddit and I hope more people will find a fix in it 🙂 it helped me alot! I don't have great PC (i5-4gen, GTX960OC, SSD 128 GB on SATA3 and 12 GB of DDR3 RAM) but I also had huge FPS drops problems. I found it and it helped me so I had to share this info for everyone 🙂 Blizz makes really bad job with WoW, I'm afraid what will be at DF launch 😕

[Starym 3,726]

1 hour ago, vadren said:

Hey, I created this topic on reddit and I hope more people will find a fix in it 🙂 it helped me alot! I don't have great PC (i5-4gen, GTX960OC, SSD 128 GB on SATA3 and 12 GB of DDR3 RAM) but I also had huge FPS drops problems. I found it and it helped me so I had to share this info for everyone 🙂 Blizz makes really bad job with WoW, I'm afraid what will be at DF launch 😕

Thanks a lot for sharing it, it's helped a lot of people now (we have comments on twitter etc saying it has helped them as well). Always happy to share community knowledge and help people out!

[Malvod 0]

Thanks I thought something was wrong with my system , I was starting doing benchmark tests...

[mtmf 14]

I was experiencing the FPS problems even while running WoW in an SSD and this setting also fixed it for me. Thanks a lot!

[MikeyD 7]

6 hours ago, vadren said:

Hey, I created this topic on reddit and I hope more people will find a fix in it 🙂 it helped me alot! I don't have great PC (i5-4gen, GTX960OC, SSD 128 GB on SATA3 and 12 GB of DDR3 RAM) but I also had huge FPS drops problems. I found it and it helped me so I had to share this info for everyone 🙂 Blizz makes really bad job with WoW, I'm afraid what will be at DF launch 😕

I mean, you're kind of trying to play wow with a potato.  Recommended requirements area 6 core 8th gen intel, 16gb ram, 8gb of vram from a current gen graphics card.  They're not optimizing for 10 year old hardware.

[vadren 2]

3 hours ago, MikeyD said:

I mean, you're kind of trying to play wow with a potato.  Recommended requirements area 6 core 8th gen intel, 16gb ram, 8gb of vram from a current gen graphics card.  They're not optimizing for 10 year old hardware.

It's not potato spec. I know it's old but dude please xD it's old game on old engine. Even people with RTX3070 had exactly same issues so you think they have potatos too? 😄 Sorry but we can't look for this like you. We just need a fix, Blizzard knows about it already.

https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/breaking/20112697

Edited October 27, 2022 by vadren

[Pregrowth 46]

This worked for me aswell, and i just wanna say big thanks!

[pwesty 0]

i've also had some weird issues as well maybe this will help others. Some reason directx 12 is stupid on my computer setup. idk whats wrong maybe bad software, but ive installed recently a new OS and still isseus with D12. Artifacting very badly, thought it was my GPU turned out not to be my GPU after taking back the old one and buying a new one. Found out after the new Pre-Patch WoW forces d12 now and it just went bad bad bad for me. Switching to d11 "directx 11" helped a lot of the artifacting to <.0025% "Basically barely happening now"

switch from d12 to d11 fixed my issues.

PS: dont come at me about my system specs.

[vadren 2]

2 hours ago, pwesty said:

i've also had some weird issues as well maybe this will help others. Some reason directx 12 is stupid on my computer setup. idk whats wrong maybe bad software, but ive installed recently a new OS and still isseus with D12. Artifacting very badly, thought it was my GPU turned out not to be my GPU after taking back the old one and buying a new one. Found out after the new Pre-Patch WoW forces d12 now and it just went bad bad bad for me. Switching to d11 "directx 11" helped a lot of the artifacting to <.0025% "Basically barely happening now"

switch from d12 to d11 fixed my issues.

PS: dont come at me about my system specs.

It was sometimes fix since Shadowlands so yea, for some specs switch to DX11 can help.

[profion85 3]

I don't have stutter or any other fps issues after the update, maybe because I have a NVMe SSD. Seems that the issue cause mostly for HDD and SATA SSD.

[brbdp 0]

I used to get random spikes of stutter and later found out it would happen at exactly the point  my background slideshow would change pictures. made it 1 solid background and no more stutters gtx 1660 super and i59400 with 16 g of 2666 ram

[Ord3rUp 0]

I was having similar issues.  Various issues would occur across multiple toons.  I would suddenly lag out and have to restart the game.  This happened more in heavily populated areas.  For me, I removed the "automatic load" for the Warcraft Logs Companion.  Why this would have such a big impact in major, "non-combat" areas, I don't know.  But, I have not had another hiccup since making this change in the app companion settings.  Don't know if this will help anyone else, but wanted to throw that out there.