WoW - graphics issues after 2.4 patch

[siorai]

Just curious, but why so many mods? I can understand changing the default UI, or adding information that's useful, but some people seem to get really carried away.

Ooops... Didn't notice this until now. To tell you the truth, that's not really that many addons. Plus with those running, my UI is probably more minimal than the default Blizzard UI. Quite a few of those addons aren't even visible when playing as such. They add information to tooltips, the main map, the character pane etc.

 

[Twe Foju]

so far so good for my 2.4.1

i even have alot of add ons which even are still compatible with 2.4 only, but i guess it's fine, cartographer being one of them.. lol

anyway, maintenance is not over yet =(

all oceanic servers are still off line

 

[Bimmi]

Many realms (including mine) are still offline as of 3:15 PDT, and worldofwarcraft.com hasn't been available for almost an hour. I wonder if Blizzard's webservers have burst into flame yet?

I love that this game gets so much new, free content, but I'm also kinda glad it doesn't happen more often.

ETA: seriously, is it just me or have FPS taken another drastic hit with 2.4.1? I had noticed just days before the Sunwell patch how smoothly the game was running and how nice everything looked, but that all seems to have gone to crap over the last week.

 

[Mackilroy]

It's just you, my framerates remained stable under both Leopard and XP.

 

[Demon Hunter]

It's just you, my framerates remained stable under both Leopard and XP.

I also haven't noticed any problems.

10.5.2 / Mac Pro / 7300 GT

 

[rbarris]

Some more background on this (the patch notes needed another edit that did not make the deadline, as 2.4.1 was on a very tight schedule, alas)

We ran into a bug in WoW code that was triggering the panics and visual corruption when certain spells are played. The code path in question would get into trouble on machines in these categories:

10.3.x or 10.4.x (any version) PowerPC with ATI video
10.4.8 or lower Intel with ATI video

For 2.4.1 we were in quite a hurry to get the crashes and panics to stop, so we simply disabled the drawing of those types of effects on the configs listed above. This has the side effect of making some things in the game not show up. There is a workaround you can do until we ship the real fix in 2.4.2. Don''t bother with any of this if you are on Leopard, or on NV or Intel graphics.

in config.wtf:

SET M2UseShaders "0"
SET AvoidTigerPanic "0"

The latter setting is what disables the drawing of the affected items (mostly spell effects that are projected onto terrain), the game defaults it to "1" on affected configs listed above. The first setting disables the use of shaders for those types of effects (otherwise you would run into the crash again). Warning, the game may not run as quickly in this config, but no effects should go missing.

The "AvoidTigerPanic" setting will become a thing of the past in the next patch. We just nailed down the precise cause of the original bug today, so we can fix it decisively in 2.4.2.

 

[Plutonius]

Some more background on this (the patch notes needed another edit that did not make the deadline, as 2.4.1 was on a very tight schedule, alas)

We ran into a bug in WoW code that was triggering the panics and visual corruption when certain spells are played. The code path in question would get into trouble on machines in these categories:

10.3.x or 10.4.x (any version) PowerPC with ATI video
10.4.8 or lower Intel with ATI video

For 2.4.1 we were in quite a hurry to get the crashes and panics to stop, so we simply disabled the drawing of those types of effects on the configs listed above. This has the side effect of making some things in the game not show up. There is a workaround you can do until we ship the real fix in 2.4.2. Don''t bother with any of this if you are on Leopard, or on NV or Intel graphics.

in config.wtf:

SET M2UseShaders "0"
SET AvoidTigerPanic "0"

The latter setting is what disables the drawing of the affected items (mostly spell effects that are projected onto terrain), the game defaults it to "1" on affected configs listed above. The first setting disables the use of shaders for those types of effects (otherwise you would run into the crash again). Warning, the game may not run as quickly in this config, but no effects should go missing.

The "AvoidTigerPanic" setting will become a thing of the past in the next patch. We just nailed down the precise cause of the original bug today, so we can fix it decisively in 2.4.2.

After 2.4.1, I started getting the strange video / crashes with all mods disabled. When I log in a character, the screen would turn mostly white (gamma settings ?) before appearing normal, stuttering, then crashing (I sent in the crash reports).

I'm running 10.4 on a G4 with a Nvidia Geforce 4ti so I'm not sure the problem is just with the ati cards. I'm not running any game mods and I have all the video settings turned down to minimum to see if it would help. Wow runs fine on my laptop (10.4 with an ati card) which leads me to believe that WoW has coding issues with the Geforce 4ti.

 

[Kylen74]

Another updater

Also look for WoWMatrix which is another great updater. It doesn't seem to be linked to just WowAce updates and searches your Interface folder when you check the versions of your software.

I did have problem but it was due to addons like recount and x-perl being out of date. Since they really messed with the logs and UI this time, I noticed that most of the popular addons were getting updated on a hourly basis. I would be playing and crash out, so I would run the updater and find that some had already had updates. I know since the 2.4.1 patch that things have gotten better, but I would really check your addons on a daily basis until they get their programs stable. I know just last night 10 of my addons had major updates. Hope this helps.

 

[rbarris]

After 2.4.1, I started getting the strange video / crashes with all mods disabled. When I log in a character, the screen would turn mostly white (gamma settings ?) before appearing normal, stuttering, then crashing (I sent in the crash reports).

I'm running 10.4 on a G4 with a Nvidia Geforce 4ti so I'm not sure the problem is just with the ati cards. I'm not running any game mods and I have all the video settings turned down to minimum to see if it would help. Wow runs fine on my laptop (10.4 with an ati card) which leads me to believe that WoW has coding issues with the Geforce 4ti.

Plutonius, if you could drop me an email and a ZIP of your Errors folder, I can look at this issue more directly. Address in the sig.

 

[Plutonius]

Thank you !!!

I sent you the error log.