Freezes

[pazgaz]

Still facing the same issue.
I'll try moving WoW to a different SSD and see if that changes anything.
Any other tips? Or a way to investigate and find what it causing this?

[bob]

Some of the Sysinternals tools would probably be handy, like ProcMon, DiskMon, AutoRuns, ProcDump (if you are into WinDbg and checking out minidumps).

[pazgaz]

I don't have much experience with them. Any useful links?

[pazgaz]

Tried procmon, and it feels like there's a small hiccup every time the games try to read something from a data file . It's kinda hard to say for sure because there's a lot of events firing all the time and it's a bit hard to follow, but around the time of the hiccup/freeze there are a lot of readfile events by the wow processes.
I tried moving wow to another SSD but that did nothing.

[pazgaz]

Tried running 5 copies of wow from my SDD and it's even worse.
Open to suggestions.

[bob]

Well, don't run 5 copies. Means Windows can't reuse/cache various in memory data, so more ram required, more disk i/o required, yada yada yada.

If it is caused by disk reads, then that would imply your disk I/o is not up to par. IOMeter, PerfMon, or some other disk I/o testing tool could identify that.
This could come down to a bad driver, whether OS, vendor supplied (with motherboard usually), or because you've upgraded to Win10 (was it an upgrade rather than a clean install? ) without updating your drivers.
It might possibly be corruption.

Yes, ProcMon records a LOT of stuff. It always takes a while to go through and filter it, and even then you can't always see what you are looking for.

[pazgaz]

This is not an upgrade from a previous version.
I will go back to one copy and try to run one of the tools you've suggested.
Thanks.

[pazgaz]

Did a clean install of Windows 10.
Updated it.
Installed updated GPU drivers (after using Display Driver Uninstaller to remove the ones windows installed).
Installed IS.
Imported the configuration XML I saved before doing the Windows installation.
Started up the team.
On first glance, seemed to be working fine since there was usually a freeze upon first entering the world with the team (30 seconds +).
Went to bed happy.
Woke up today and started up the team.... about 50-60 seconds freeze.

[bob]

Ok, share your profile. It is unlikely, but if you are sending a buttload of things to the game with your keypresses, then it might freeze on you. Normally you get kicked for it, but hey, lets take a look.


edit: You should also do, File -> Clear, and create a brand new profile.

[pazgaz]

This happens without even pressing anything, just entering the world on all my chars while they are in the garrison.