It will go down as low as 20 FPS and up to like 180 FPS. The 20-ish happened on LOD yesterday, 180 happens in IF standing. I run ryzen 7 7700 and RTX 5060ti 8g, with 32GB DDR5 ram. Obviously it's not the PC. So what gives?
The latest thing i did was reinstall windows. Now i'm back on windows 11. I've updated all of my drivers as well. Before i did this, reinstalling windows, i was going with like 150 FPS on LOD.
Here's the picture of my in-game effects settings: https://imgur.com/wceVD5v
And here's the resolution: https://imgur.com/JRO1LmV
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Member
My FPS is all over the place
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Member
what addons are u using? disable all addons and check if game is running fine, if its not dropping fps turn addons one by one to see which one is causing the issue
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Member
I run the same addons as i did before. Can it still be the cause?
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Member
I disabled them all just in case and checked the game but it's exactly the same as with the addons.
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The Lightbringer
Are the FPS drops random here and there, during movement, or in combat or while turning camera or moving mouse?
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All of the above. For example, when i'm in dalaran and i'm looking at the alliance inn i would drop frames, probably due to lots of people there. As soon as i look away it gets better. Moving also does the same.
I've put wow.exe in windows system on high priority and it has improved. But it does feel unstable, like the FPS varies still a lot. Lows will be like 90 now and highs will be 190....
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Member
Never used that res cus potato monitor but had very similar issues thanks to win 11. For example fps would drop randomly from 120 to 20. Check and reinstall your video driver. If that works, consider switching to win 10 or linux! XD
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Rock n' Roll Racing Champion
Install dxvk. Also if you are using 11 disable "Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling", which causes stuttering.
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So i found dxvk on github and i downloaded the file. Once i opened it it's all a bunch of files and folders. How do i install it?
I've read the instructions on the github, but it's all beyond tech for me. It says:
"In order to install a DXVK package obtained from the release page into a given wine prefix, copy or symlink the DLLs into the following directories as follows, then open winecfg and manually add native DLL overrides for d3d8, d3d9, d3d10core, d3d11 and dxgi under the Libraries tab."
Like, what do i do with that haha. Please help.
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Rock n' Roll Racing Champion
Download the latest version from the Releases page (at this moment, dxvk-2.7.1.tar.gz). Then inside navigate to the x32 folder, take the d3d9.dll file and copy it in your wow folder alongside wow.exe
There will be some stuttering the first minutes of use; that is normal and expected.Edited: February 14, 2026
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I did this but nothing changed. The game is still the same. And there was no stuttering at all.
I`m wondering if i did everything correctly but there's nothing to fail. I downloaded the exact file you were mentioning, copied the exact one you said and opened wow.
Here's the proof: https://imgur.com/3p7vzGD
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Member
i have the same issue on high end hardware. from 160 fps+ randomly dropping below 30 FPS... if you find the issue let me know :)
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One Piece Straw Hat
This might sound strange but have you checked your storage device? Wow is very limited in the ram and gpu it uses and your cpu is more than fine, so that leaves the hdd/ssd
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