World Of Warcraft Chop - Any ideas?

ShaggyRS6 · 22 Apr 2011 at 12:39

Recently WOW has been giving some chop/lag whilst playing. Sometimes the game can pause for up to 30s. I replaced the Video Card as i was certain it was that (went from a 4870x 2 to a 6950) but its still doing.

Temps on everything are fine.

What i did notice it that when I alt tabbed out of the game whilst it was frozen, the CPU utilisation on core 1 was at 100%

any ideas?

Swifty123 · 22 Apr 2011 at 12:43

Im also getting this, I have a Athlon x2 @3.1Ghz and a HD5850.

Terminel · 22 Apr 2011 at 12:45

Does it happen all the time or in certain areas, Twilight Highlands is a known problem area for these symptoms.

Greenboi · 22 Apr 2011 at 12:52

Try going to your WoW folder and deleting the Cache folder, WTF Folder, and AddOns (Found in Interface folder), and give it a go then, and if its fine start replacing your addons.

Had this problem on my gf's pc and this solved it

Puppetmaster · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:30

Greenboi said:
Try going to your WoW folder and deleting the Cache folder, WTF Folder, and AddOns (Found in Interface folder), and give it a go then, and if its fine start replacing your addons.

Had this problem on my gf's pc and this solved it

back them up first, incase it wasnt that. Otherwise you will have to re do your ui

Greenboi · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:34

Puppetmaster said:
back them up first, incase it wasnt that. Otherwise you will have to re do your ui

Good point. We use standard UI so didnt bother backing em up

ShaggyRS6 · 22 Apr 2011 at 16:35

Actually, what I noticed is that (hopefully) was only happening in TBC, I have just gone 80 and am in Vaj and it has not happened yet....

I will keep you informed. thanks for the cache idea BTW

ThundyCat · 22 Apr 2011 at 17:12

Make sure you have AA etc set to application preference in your graphic card settings then adjust all graphical options in game.

Sorted it for me.