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mittwaffen schrieb:
I think thats an issue, Just install the graphics driver; when i use DDU to remove my gpu drivers i still have my chipset installed. Its possible thats causing an issue. Also run DDU a second time.
Can you upload a gif or find me an example of your stutters?
Try using Latencymon and using MSI afterburner resource monitor.
Screen shot me both should show you drops during frametimes to represent a stutter.
I can give that a try, however I do not think doing a clean installation for the Chipset drivers could cause any problems. I could also try not using them at all and just install the Adrenalin drivers.
I actually tried a couple of times recording a video showing the stuttering using the built-in Windows 10 recording feature but no chance: Once the stuttering starts while Windows is recording the game, everything crashes completely.
It goes like this: The issue is pretty much present in high-density (CPU limiting?) areas like Boralus or Stormwind. Running or flying around, the screen simply freezes. Sometimes for just a fracture of a second, sometimes for two to three seconds. The game continues as usual, sometimes the next freeze happens right after the previous one, sometime it takes some more running around. At some point, the freeze remains for more than five seconds, nothing happens - then WoW crashes stating access to graphics hardware has been blocked. The driver does not reset by the way, Wattman even continues showing the performance graphs.
Using the default 100% Resolution Scale seems to be working well for now.
Ok people, to all of you who experienced similar problems as myself, please check the following:
When you go into the World of Warcraft graphics settings, you can see an option in the top panel called "Resolution Scale", check if it is set to 100% (default) and see if you still experience stuttering, freezes or even crashes using DirectX 12 API.
This setting allows your (Radeon) GPU to render the game in either a lower (<100%) or a larger (>100%) resolution than your native one and then rescale it to this native resolution, in my case I am running a 3440x1440 ultrawide monitor. Using the example from my screenshot (which shows my usual settings I have been using since BfA release), the GPU renders the game at 3822x1600 pixels, then scaling it down to 3440x1440 pixels to match my screen. This leads to a cleaner, smoother image.
This morning I have tried a lot of things which maybe could solve the problems, including doing yet another DDU run, changing the Windows 10 "Gaming" settings, changing the compatibility settings for wow.exe, trying different driver settings like Freesync off or Surface Optimizations off. Nothing helped at all. Then I started playing around with the ingame graphics settings and quickly nailed it down to Resolution Scale.
Setting this back to default 100% *seems* to completely solve any stuttering, any freezes as well as the crashes reporting "WoW access to graphics hardware has been blocked". There still are very obvious spikes showing minimum clockrates, yet I did not notice them in terms of gaming performance, the game was running fluid.
However Resolution Scale was working fine for me ever since and it seems something broke it with the 19.x.x driver releases. I am curious if other people would report back about this. By the way I could also do my warfront world quests in Arathi without a single issue using a resolution scale of 111% - going back to Boralus and bang: Stuttering and freezes were appearing again. Resetting Resolution Scale back to default 100% and the game worked without issues.
Ok so first time here,hey everyone ! 
,i tried everything that you guys mentioned in this topic and nothing seemed to work only solution for the moment is to switch to dx11 and w8 for the new driver,although its really frustrating...
