ngl i've never even considered the possibility that my load screens were slower cause of addons. i just thought my PC was ass. using an addon to fix an issue caused by addons is such a WoW player way to fix a problem and i'm all here for it.
for me this would happen the i got a new pc it stopped happening for a while then a new xpac came out and it was a problem again repeat the cycle every few years
I remember when Star Wars the Old Republic came out, I wasn't able to run PvP at all. I would enter and be kicked for being afk before the loading screen ended. The not so good old days lol
yea i haven't played wow for years but when i played it kept getting worse despite me having a good pc for the time that could play newer game just fine the game is just buggy
@@Mysterious-Fox-01actually living in Paris, got the best connection i could, got a good laptop, takes me 3-5 minutes to load the city, the textures, the npcs and the other players lmfao
I found a weakaura that sets this cvar and view distance on load up and reverts back to custom option after load. It's called "fast load" by schlag. Anyone else try it yet
The graphics settings distances, ground, etc, SSAO , depth, etc it’s what it makes hard to load, if you don’t care then wait 1min each instance, if you have power 5X RTX (future) then maybe don’t care but for mortals and other platforms (i game on Mac ) then you should care , distances only turn it max if you want a wallpaper , a selfie etc, for combat, rendering the stone side to the tree 3KM away, doesn’t help your combat, not even you will care if you see it, i do have Shadows at high, not ultra, Liquids (consume a lot of process even if your camera can’t see them) i use it at low, sometimes mid, depth and compute effects low, SSAO disable (its for sharper corners, like stairs or square things ) and distances, environment and ground 6,6,8 bc i like to see grass and details on ground when exploring. I’ll share this vid to a friend , bc struggle with loading
TBH having good SSD and WOW installed on it shouldn't make a problem no matter how much addons you have. Ofc with a good bunch of RAM memory. I prefer to have 3-5sec longer loading screen than remembering to swap profiles in addons and reaload the game for that.
This video can be summed up by: if you have serious loading problems AND a whole lot of WeakAuras, disble the addon as much as you don't need it, and use the console command. Just that will half your loading times, I just tried the view distance and console command and load times are ~60% faster
Wish my SSDs were good... got almost brand new M2 NVMEs and every part in my PC is younger than a year old and WoW still takes close to 20 seconds to load in from the character select screen
I have my OS and WoW on my m.2 and noticed a huge improvement this last patch. Can't tell if it was WoW settings or Nvidia updating their video driver correctly. I used to never get more than 35 fps in Valdrakken or in a raid, since this patch, I get 60 fps all the time and my load times are a lot smoother. I hadn't touched settings or changed hardware. I'm still using an i7-7700 CPU, 2400mhz DDR4 RAM 16 gb, Samsung M.2 Pro, Nvidia 2060 GTX video card
I used to have crap load times and the big fix (beyond having WoW on an SSD) is just removing all the addon bloat. WoW's default UI these days really doesn't need a lot to make it work.
The only time I've ever seen load times that fast was when i disabled all addons, LOL. I'm glad theres something to fix it! I did actually know weakauras was the biggest culprit too >.
Man, I hate raiding WeakAuras so much... I hope they find a way to get rid of them, especifically. I love UI customization auras but the raid ones are SO dense and depending on them for high end raiding is awful
So I did the console command, it worked. loading times shaved in half but now my Vigor bar wont go away no matter what even when I set it back to normal.
I have a 10 min load time and I don't use addons it also hangs up a lot and I have to quit the client. That is in between pressing play and the client loading on the screen. For context i am using wow on a steam deck.
My friends joked at me about how I only literally use just DBM and Weak auas for addons. I don't even have a DPS meter (why should I need one? I'm a healer/tank never a DPS). They actyually kept linking this video in discord.
When i log in, my blizzard time manager is 4.6 seconds in the addon but when i /reload is 0.174. Is the addon actualy using the blizzard addon to extract loading times thats why adds that time or there is something wrong on my side ?
If it's anything like using the regular graphics setting page, then it should be a one and done command. Have to experiment with your alts to see if you notice a difference with and without retyping it again.
My load times are stupid and I don't use any addons whatsoever. On top of that, the game client crashes an average of once an hour or so. all in all, it gets really frustrating to okay wow these days.
Your internet connection speeds also have a huge impact. If you're at a fiber internet or 500 megabits per second or higher, you shouldn't have much in the way of load times unless there's world latency.
Get a decent nvme m.2 and you wont have this problem. If your playing games on a mechanical drive you're just screwed. Using just "details" load times are fast as hell with a good m.2 storage device. Now you have an addon for your addons....Just get good and learn to play without the addons telling you how to play. DBM is basically built in now. Yall just need to get good. Period... Xzibit: Yo dawg! You got addons for your addons so your addons got addons?
Yeah, i was watching this video while thinking "load times? what?!" I run dbm, details and coordinates... My problem is that i gotta wait for my friends to load in when we play together LOL.
For my main pc I still have a disk ssd, but its low storage so I want to buy a new one to put WoW onto so it will load my game faster. I just cant figure out whats better between disk ssd and nvme m.2 ssd as you suggested. Been trying to read up on it, but feel like its either "its great" or "you dont need to use it just stick to regular disk ssd". On my old desktop I got WoW installed on a disk ssd and already noticed a big difference in load time, but if I get a decent nvme m.2 ssd, you think that will be noticable better? Any help/tips appreciated, I'll check on here again tomorrow.
Jeez i could not imagine dealing with slow load times, reminds me of the old days when I used to game on the family computer or my mid HP ahead of its time “gaming laptop”.
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I have to have my graphics for the game on max cause it looks so god damn good, and my loading screens are never a problem unless I was downloading a game on steam In the background or something
All the people that used to say "Remove Elvui and replace it with individual WeakAuras to reduce resource usage" ... I always said that thats plain stupid. Now theres proof.
You really only need it to find out what is causing the most to your load times, then turn it off. It doesn't do any work for you. Did you even watch the video long enough?
@@heroicxidiot yeah, still an addon to analyse addon. Bellular points out about the irony of that as well many times. I was criticising the fact that so many things need add-ons in wow. Chill
Before watching : loading got so bad on my computer i had to stop playing the game. The fact that the game is slow because when you log in, you have to load every other players cosmetics + yours is killing me
u know its bad when u need to disable addons to load the game faster…. but u need to download more addons for faster load times ☠️ just reset the entire game already, its like having a old ass man that fought in nam, ww2, and is nearing 100 years old, and u ask him to carry a 5 pound bookbag, and then every day add 1/2 pound to the bag every other day, and then u the kne that created this problem is surprised that he can barely hold up any linger after reaching 50 pounds, and when he falls and collapses, u STILL add more to the bag and ur confused as to why hes not moving or progressing to better places, god damn wow needs a insane reset and jus a whole new game and everything
me watching having played for 18-19 years.... "wtf is weakauras?" literally never used it or heard a reason valid enough to consider it. sounds like if you just stop sucking at whatever weakauras helps you do, you could uninstall it and speed up your load times..
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ngl i've never even considered the possibility that my load screens were slower cause of addons. i just thought my PC was ass. using an addon to fix an issue caused by addons is such a WoW player way to fix a problem and i'm all here for it.
This is the best comment hahahhaha
How did you not think add ons didn’t affect loading?
@@Adroyo by not using his brain is my bet
me watching this video while waiting for the game to load
You'll be loading untill you are a pensioner!
Hahahahahaha
I remember in vanilla/bc on my laptop where sometimes the boat/Zeppelin would return me to the start after the load finished 😢
lol that's hilarious
for me this would happen the i got a new pc it stopped happening for a while then a new xpac came out and it was a problem again repeat the cycle every few years
I remember when Star Wars the Old Republic came out, I wasn't able to run PvP at all. I would enter and be kicked for being afk before the loading screen ended. The not so good old days lol
I watched Matt’s segment during the stream, been looking forward to this video!
The console command already changed a lot for me.
Thank you Bellular!
Loading in hasn't been a significant problem. The problem ia that once I'm loaded in, it takes 2-3 minutes for the area to populate.
Thats more due to internet ping time or the system suffering from slow memeory (either system or GPU memory)
yea i haven't played wow for years but when i played it kept getting worse despite me having a good pc for the time that could play newer game just fine the game is just buggy
@@Mysterious-Fox-01 Demonstrably erroneous
@@Mysterious-Fox-01actually living in Paris, got the best connection i could, got a good laptop, takes me 3-5 minutes to load the city, the textures, the npcs and the other players lmfao
@@izicadet9819Are you sure that WoW runs on the graphic chip instead of the cpu? Laptops power saving modes and drivers often produce problems.
I found a weakaura that sets this cvar and view distance on load up and reverts back to custom option after load. It's called "fast load" by schlag. Anyone else try it yet
Used the consoloe comand back when you guys did a podcast and the article on ghost. Comenting for engagement to go up
I already run with view distance 7 because it upped my FPS greatly lol. The console command was great though, thanks for that and the WA info!
I’ve been looking forward to this video for WEEKS!!! Finally!!!!!
Don’t use Weak Auras and turning add ons off and on aka switching profiles would take even longer. I’m good just waiting.
I had the same issue, I reinstalled the game, everything works now (I backed up my addons, the WTF and Interface folders)
Probably the best addon of this kind ive seen so far, thanks for sharing!
Dude, I've always been amazed at the load times in wow tbh I didn't know people had bad loads
The graphics settings distances, ground, etc, SSAO , depth, etc it’s what it makes hard to load, if you don’t care then wait 1min each instance, if you have power 5X RTX (future) then maybe don’t care but for mortals and other platforms (i game on Mac ) then you should care , distances only turn it max if you want a wallpaper , a selfie etc, for combat, rendering the stone side to the tree 3KM away, doesn’t help your combat, not even you will care if you see it, i do have Shadows at high, not ultra, Liquids (consume a lot of process even if your camera can’t see them) i use it at low, sometimes mid, depth and compute effects low, SSAO disable (its for sharper corners, like stairs or square things ) and distances, environment and ground 6,6,8 bc i like to see grass and details on ground when exploring.
I’ll share this vid to a friend , bc struggle with loading
TBH having good SSD and WOW installed on it shouldn't make a problem no matter how much addons you have. Ofc with a good bunch of RAM memory. I prefer to have 3-5sec longer loading screen than remembering to swap profiles in addons and reaload the game for that.
This video can be summed up by: if you have serious loading problems AND a whole lot of WeakAuras, disble the addon as much as you don't need it, and use the console command. Just that will half your loading times, I just tried the view distance and console command and load times are ~60% faster
Wish my SSDs were good... got almost brand new M2 NVMEs and every part in my PC is younger than a year old and WoW still takes close to 20 seconds to load in from the character select screen
you could also just put your HDD where it belongs, the past. and replace it with an m.2 drive.
I have my OS and WoW on my m.2 and noticed a huge improvement this last patch. Can't tell if it was WoW settings or Nvidia updating their video driver correctly. I used to never get more than 35 fps in Valdrakken or in a raid, since this patch, I get 60 fps all the time and my load times are a lot smoother. I hadn't touched settings or changed hardware.
I'm still using an i7-7700 CPU, 2400mhz DDR4 RAM 16 gb, Samsung M.2 Pro, Nvidia 2060 GTX video card
I used to have crap load times and the big fix (beyond having WoW on an SSD) is just removing all the addon bloat. WoW's default UI these days really doesn't need a lot to make it work.
The only time I've ever seen load times that fast was when i disabled all addons, LOL. I'm glad theres something to fix it! I did actually know weakauras was the biggest culprit too >.
Not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong but I cant get Warmup to work, I done with and withouth addons enabled including ELVUI
Justtimed the hearth to Valdrakken from the Emerald Dream at 1:20, one minute and twenty seconds at lowered settings for 60fps.
Keep in mind if you disconnect and try to login while in combat it's always going to take longer than usual.
Do you guys not have SSDs!?!
Wow is installed on my C drive which is a M.2 SSD it still loads like shit
“When you try too hard with weakauras, it makes you take longer to load” is what I got.
Man, I hate raiding WeakAuras so much... I hope they find a way to get rid of them, especifically. I love UI customization auras but the raid ones are SO dense and depending on them for high end raiding is awful
I get by with recount, DBM, and raider io only. The UI addons always felt like more of a chore than was worth for me.
don't use recount, it's garbage, use Details.
So I did the console command, it worked. loading times shaved in half but now my Vigor bar wont go away no matter what even when I set it back to normal.
Warmup apparently doesnt work anymore :(
How to set a default addon profile in Simple Addon Manager? Love the tool, but couldn't find that setting.
We are minmaxing loading times now, lovely
I have a 10 min load time and I don't use addons it also hangs up a lot and I have to quit the client. That is in between pressing play and the client loading on the screen. For context i am using wow on a steam deck.
You might need to update your PC at that point, that's not normal
definetly too old hdd
Adware or low system specs.
ignore the advice the game is just glichy it happens randomly
@@belstar1128 this was true 20 years ago
My friends joked at me about how I only literally use just DBM and Weak auas for addons. I don't even have a DPS meter (why should I need one? I'm a healer/tank never a DPS). They actyually kept linking this video in discord.
As a healer I use dps meters to know who should get PI prio.
you should still use a DPS meter, just because ur a healer or tank doesn't mean your damage doesn't matter, it matters quite alot actually
I don't often have issues except when latency hits. Need better graphics cards? More memory?
How long do you think it took them to realize you can see the name of the character on the player frame
I liked the video just for the plunderstorm gimmick :D (after its removed)
When i log in, my blizzard time manager is 4.6 seconds in the addon but when i /reload is 0.174. Is the addon actualy using the blizzard addon to extract loading times thats why adds that time or there is something wrong on my side ?
i just don't use addons...but do alt tab to find stuff out xP
Just in time for plunder storm to end lol
And I thought I was impatient
Mine does this and I don’t have any add ons haha
Do you guys know if there's a fix to the profession UI memory leak?
i have nasa computer go for 4k 120fps, after patch 1105 i have screen stucked after loading for 15 sec. Wow is amazing...
Wish they redid weakaura to make it character specific instead of shared.
"Back in my day..."
idk but so far i haven't had much of an issue with load times. knock on wood i guess.
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The other obvious change is getting a faster CPU and GPU. lol
Disable addons, and clean your weakauras, each weakaura is just a small addon..
then proceed to die to boss and do half of everyone's dps
@@cronosdimitri4584 if you need 30 weakauras to play the game for you to do decent DPS, you should probably find a different game.
@@cronosdimitri4584 don't even need weak auras to help you do dps. Hekili actually helps you do your best dps rotation
You talking about saving seconds last time I played I had no add-ons and was waiting minutes.
Why are these not default settings
Sounds more like Weakauras is the problem lol
What’s the name of the addon
TIL Warmup got updated for the Addon API changes, I guess I can delete my fork
Only if you knew the loading screens from late 90's or early 00's...
i crank every setting to max, and if it lags then i need a new 3000$ laptop, simple as that.
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If I disable al laddons I still get long loading screens.
Nice tip for Plunderstorm. Gonna use it right away! Oh wait.....
Do you have to do the console command for every character or just once on any?
If it's anything like using the regular graphics setting page, then it should be a one and done command. Have to experiment with your alts to see if you notice a difference with and without retyping it again.
@@Culdcepter I'm not even sure if it made a difference for me but I have a pretty fast SSD, has it made a difference for you?
i remember in tbc id hate going to shat because my game would be at 5fps and takin a mage portal to shat would take about 3min to load in xD oh man
Installing wow on good nvme resolved all the problems. It loads like 3-4 seconds with all the addons.
putting it on a non-system nvme is even better if you can afford that.
@@bamsbeyrek9728 putting only wow in that nvme is even better if u can afford it :D
My load times are stupid and I don't use any addons whatsoever. On top of that, the game client crashes an average of once an hour or so. all in all, it gets really frustrating to okay wow these days.
Do this now and break the game on the war within release day.
I had no idea people had such long loading times. Mine is super fast, without this addon.
Your internet connection speeds also have a huge impact. If you're at a fiber internet or 500 megabits per second or higher, you shouldn't have much in the way of load times unless there's world latency.
@@JulianaBlewett 50 mbit connection and my PC is mid tier from 2019
Loading screen is like 10 seconds.
when i played wow the game would just have periods were to took longer for no reason and then went fast again
Wait, hold on a moment. This game has High Textures ? Cause, that's certainly not true. I wish they would update the textures though!
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nah bro i been under out of date yellow triangle since bfa.
my load time is over a minute in 50% of cases.
i don't care i just alt tab.
Put it on an SSD, that's all there is to it.
2:34
Jokes on you, I have no add-ons.
never noticed this issue maybe its because i played vanila
hahha. That intro.. gold!
In summary, loading less things = less load time
What about ray tracing?
Ray tracing doesnt effect load times
@@Aves_1 but it will turn your PC into an oven
TLDR, Dont use a lot of addons, "they didn't test things cause it would take too long"
are you telling me they didn't spend 13 minutes explaining how to reduce load times?
@@heroicxidiot shocking, i know
What if im on a 4090, 14900k, m2 5000mbit/read etc etc. Do i need this "fix"?
Get a decent nvme m.2 and you wont have this problem. If your playing games on a mechanical drive you're just screwed. Using just "details" load times are fast as hell with a good m.2 storage device. Now you have an addon for your addons....Just get good and learn to play without the addons telling you how to play. DBM is basically built in now. Yall just need to get good. Period...
Xzibit: Yo dawg! You got addons for your addons so your addons got addons?
Yeah, i was watching this video while thinking "load times? what?!" I run dbm, details and coordinates... My problem is that i gotta wait for my friends to load in when we play together LOL.
For my main pc I still have a disk ssd, but its low storage so I want to buy a new one to put WoW onto so it will load my game faster. I just cant figure out whats better between disk ssd and nvme m.2 ssd as you suggested. Been trying to read up on it, but feel like its either "its great" or "you dont need to use it just stick to regular disk ssd".
On my old desktop I got WoW installed on a disk ssd and already noticed a big difference in load time, but if I get a decent nvme m.2 ssd, you think that will be noticable better?
Any help/tips appreciated, I'll check on here again tomorrow.
Jeez i could not imagine dealing with slow load times, reminds me of the old days when I used to game on the family computer or my mid HP ahead of its time “gaming laptop”.
Blue light is not good for your sleep
Addons bloat the load times, but its ironic that theres addons to provide the solution.
the addon is more helpful in getting information on what is causing the long load times.
I never had any problems with loading and fps and im still rocking with my 1080ti GPU and i7 6700k CPU!!!
we need a youtube short for this. explanation is way too complex here.
just put it on an ssd (didnt see the vid yet if he said it sry xD )
Seriously though. The “after” he showed in the intro is what I get on an ssd
I for one enjoy my stampeding roar tokyo drift weak aura far too much to remove weak auras.
I have the game on the fastest SSD drive available. So Im OK.
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I have to have my graphics for the game on max cause it looks so god damn good, and my loading screens are never a problem unless I was downloading a game on steam In the background or something
You do not need everything on max to make it look good.
All the people that used to say "Remove Elvui and replace it with individual WeakAuras to reduce resource usage" ... I always said that thats plain stupid. Now theres proof.
I'm sure it's an amazing add-on but damn another addon? This side of wow is so frustrating
You really only need it to find out what is causing the most to your load times, then turn it off. It doesn't do any work for you. Did you even watch the video long enough?
@@heroicxidiot yeah, still an addon to analyse addon. Bellular points out about the irony of that as well many times. I was criticising the fact that so many things need add-ons in wow. Chill
cool
Before watching : loading got so bad on my computer i had to stop playing the game. The fact that the game is slow because when you log in, you have to load every other players cosmetics + yours is killing me
just ban addon problem solved
u know its bad when u need to disable addons to load the game faster…. but u need to download more addons for faster load times ☠️ just reset the entire game already, its like having a old ass man that fought in nam, ww2, and is nearing 100 years old, and u ask him to carry a 5 pound bookbag, and then every day add 1/2 pound to the bag every other day, and then u the kne that created this problem is surprised that he can barely hold up any linger after reaching 50 pounds, and when he falls and collapses, u STILL add more to the bag and ur confused as to why hes not moving or progressing to better places, god damn wow needs a insane reset and jus a whole new game and everything
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Clearly you never logged into ESO. 😂
Well, removing WA is not gonna happen for me.
You didn't beat any of the bosses while using it btw
@@Teo_stra take ur pills.
great suggestions but none of these helped me.
Yeah, no difference for me either.
me watching having played for 18-19 years.... "wtf is weakauras?"
literally never used it or heard a reason valid enough to consider it.
sounds like if you just stop sucking at whatever weakauras helps you do, you could uninstall it and speed up your load times..
Basically: Delete Weak Auras