World of Warcraft graphical problem?

[Gamerguy]

Like every other minute, World of Warcraft freezes for a good 10-20 seconds then my screen goes black and then goes to my desktop then resumes back to WoW.

This makes WoW pretty much unplayable.
I have the latest drivers.

 

[tweakw7]

Try rolling back to the other drivers, i've found they work better.

 

[Gamerguy]

Nope. I must have tried 10 different drivers. None work :S

 

[rekcah5]

I have the same problem. WoW will display properly without any artifacts then suddenly flashes back to the desktop then back to WoW again. It will do this indefinetly while in game but not at the login screen. I've tried disabling the visual effects in windows but that doesn't help. I've also tried different drivers to no avail. Any suggestions?

 

[brua100]

have played wow for a good couple of hours and no problems as yet :/

 

[drzl]

Like every other minute, World of Warcraft freezes for a good 10-20 seconds then my screen goes black and then goes to my desktop then resumes back to WoW.

This makes WoW pretty much unplayable.
I have the latest drivers.

If you have looked in to wow EU or US forums, a lot of people are having same problems with winxp, win vista, with linux. The graphic problems arent tied with windows 7 or our faulty drivers, its in the game itself currently. I decided to try windows 7 beta and my wow accually runs better with this then with winxpsp3, but still on sertain areas i get the huge lag spikes and sometimes screen freezes.

Some of us have been able to make our wow run bit smoother and without lags by messing around with config.wtf file and "tweaking" graphic settings.

you should try out searching the source of problem from World of Warcraft (en) Forums -> or World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Forum Index

But mainly, at least for me. Wow runs smoother on W7 then with WinXP

Hope this was usefull info for you.



Edit:Basically if your wow runs smoothly or not is based on luck at the moment, my own subscription is on hold at the moment, waiting for some fix with the client to start playing again. Some people play without any problems but all so a lot of us are having loads of problems with it.

Couple useful links
Windows 7 Beta and World of Warcraft
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14287258768&sid=1

FPS drops/stutters every ~15 seconds
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12368277969&sid=1

 

[rekcah5]

Thanks for your input drzl. After reading your post I went to the official WoW forums and started looking around. Although I didn't find anything that helpful I did think of something to try.

I used to play WoW on Linux not too long ago and one of the things that solved some problems was switching WoW from DirectX to OpenGL, so I gave that a try and lo and behold It doesn't flicker anymore. Although the game runs so slow its unplayable haha. Ironic. Anyway that opens some doors I guess.

 

[drzl]

Yeah, thats the problem at the moment, there isnt really anything usefull info how to fix it cause we propably cant fix it. with patch 3.0.0 graphics started to show some problems and little increase with lag, but when 3.0.3 came out to live servers then the real problems started. Not to mention the lag that wintergrasp is still giving to rest of realm

 

[rekcah5]

After messing around with some of WoW's settings Ive found that enabling "Windowed Mode" fixes the 'desktop flickering'. Although not ideal for me it definitely fixes the problem the OP and myself had. W00t!



Edit: Oh and before I forget, Ive localized this problem to Windows 7. I do not have this problem with Windows XP.

 

[bobalobabingbong]

Runs amazing for me! x64 W7, max graphic settings in WoW. I forget the resolution I'm running.

 

[Cedhal]

Runs amazing for me! x64 W7, max graphic settings in WoW. I forget the resolution I'm running.

Yup me too
not a cliche

 

[harleyman]

Wow Flickering

I am getting the same problem - just migrated to windows 7 about three weeks ago - problem didnt' start until today, and I have not done anything in the last 2 weeks to my computer.

 

[Frostmourne]

Update your drives with the guide in my sig.

 

[wwarlock]

sim prob

Ya I am having the exact same problem you are. and the hard part is it happens all over the place. Some times it will happen as soon as I log in sometimes I can raid half the night before anything happens. and when it happens it sometimes happens once then not again for an hour other times it happens like 10 times in a row.

Also the video and sound are fine. I can run everything maxed out and it looks great. until the screen goes black. One thing I have noticed is it maxes out all 4 cores of the processor when it happens.

i have tried to shut everything down except wow still does it. I tried changing the back ground thinking it could be that no good. the last time it locked up and gave me the back screen it removed my background all together I have a black desktop now. still did not fix the problem....

I am afraid to do anything like join in on raids and what not due to this problem the last thing I want is to be in the middle of a big boss fight and find my video f*ing up on me..

 

[sam62]

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SAM-PC
System Manufacturer ECS
System Model GeForce6100PM-M2
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor, 2800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 080015, 08/09/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name sam-PC\sam
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.25 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.01 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.50 GB
Available Virtual Memory 4.90 GB
Page File Space 3.25 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Sorry missed this bit out

Geforce 9500 GT


Hi i do hope some kind soul can help , i have done everything that's been posted above but to no avail. Installed w7 3 days ago after a rebuild and reinstalled wow but all i get is flickering and then the black screen , i can hear it but cant see it. I have been able log on once or twice and my fps is great but not much use with the flickering and crashes, i do hope you can help as i have run out of forums to look at. Thank you in advance

 

[brady]

Nvidia Card by any chance?

 

[sam62]

Nvidia Card by any chance?

Geforce 9500 GT

 

[brady]

Are you running AVG 9.0 as well?

 

[sam62]

Are you running AVG 9.0 as well?

No my friend avast

 

[brady]

Interesting to say the least. This problem is usually attributed to 2 programs: AVG updates from 8.* to 9.0 and Skype. If you're running skype, make sure it's not set to start on 'startup'.

the minimizing issue is another program minimizing wow in order to 'tell you something'.... even if you don't see the 'notification'. If you're using windows 7, some of the sys tray notifications can do this as well. You may want to 'customize' your sys tray notifications... Other than that option, I would check your msconfig to see what else is running. You can narrow down the issue by disabling your startups and seeing if it continues to minimize.

off topic but relevant: avg > avast imo