8.3 performance issues with DX11
Just reporting a change to wow that happened for the 8.3 release. Ever since the patch I got very nasty 5-30s lags and freezes in areas with lots of players. Using the portals from and to Silithus was extremely deadly. Any random wow instance would freeze up and even the innerspace app crashed a few times.
This wow patch introduced memory leaks with my setup. With the 5 instances of wow the memory of the graphics card ran full (11GB) and after that it kept eating the main memory of the computer. I was sitting at 11GB gpu ram and 32gb ram completely used up. Machine started swapping to disk and eventually crashed with a black screen. Used to run smoothly with 5GB video ram usage and 20gb ram.
For some reason the DX11 configuration was not working anymore. I needed to switch to DX11legacy with the command line option.
I am pretty sure I was running in DX11 "regular" up until patch 8.3 as I needed to put the legacy start parameter in. I'm surprised though I havent seen any reports here on this issue.
This wow patch introduced memory leaks with my setup. With the 5 instances of wow the memory of the graphics card ran full (11GB) and after that it kept eating the main memory of the computer. I was sitting at 11GB gpu ram and 32gb ram completely used up. Machine started swapping to disk and eventually crashed with a black screen. Used to run smoothly with 5GB video ram usage and 20gb ram.
For some reason the DX11 configuration was not working anymore. I needed to switch to DX11legacy with the command line option.
I am pretty sure I was running in DX11 "regular" up until patch 8.3 as I needed to put the legacy start parameter in. I'm surprised though I havent seen any reports here on this issue.