Performance issues plague the community
A really big problem affecting part of the community is performance issues in several areas. This is not due to outdated PCs, but rather to poor optimization of World of Warcraft.
Using DirectX 12 leads many to experience severe graphics issues. Textures fail to load correctly or not at all, the image freezes, and the world is re-rendered or entire interface elements are illegible or broken. This is also not an error caused by using addons, but clearly lies with World of Warcraft itself. We have published a mini-guide on how you can fix many of the errors.
But it doesn’t stop at graphics errors. There’s another performance issue, a so-called “Memory Leak”. This causes World of Warcraft to occupy more and more of your PC’s RAM and ultimately overload it in many cases. Whether you have a PC with 16 GB or 32 GB of RAM – in many cases, it is eventually maxed out. The consequence is that the game stutters and ultimately crashes.
The only solution to this problem at the moment is to regularly restart the game and keep an eye on how much RAM is currently being occupied, perhaps via the task manager.
This problem is still manageable, but as soon as content like M+ is available, where every second counts, this error will cause failed keys, broken groups, and a lot of frustration.
A fix is needed – and please not just with the next major patch.
Update: The patch today has already fixed some of these problems, although not all. It’s nice to see that something is moving here – however, we believe that this should have happened before the release of the expansion. But improvement is certainly desirable.
