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Screenfreezes are a mulithreading problem. We know that much, but it's never been really discovered where the sources come from. This means is due to having a dual/quad core computer and the game process communicating with both cores on your processor.

Now, many of us run on different processors so this "mitigation" will work WONDERS for some, and other others offer little improvement. For myself, on both my PC's Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz and iMac's Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06Ghz this works wonders, but like I said, for others maybe not so much.

In the past I've told people every time they run the game to open Task Manager and "Set Affinity" on WoW.exe to 1 CPU. This is an annoyance as you have to run it EVERYTIME YOU RUN THE GAME. Well I discovered there was a WoW setting for this that can be stored in the game files so you no longer have to do that. This also is a viable fix for Mac OS X since you cannot set affinity on Mac binaries.


1. Make sure WoW is completely closed
2. Go to your WoW installation folder
3. Go into /WTF/ and open Config.wtf in Notepad or some text editor program
4. Add the following line:

SET processAffinityMask "1"

NOTE: If you already have a "processAffinityMask" in there, MAKE SURE IT'S SET TO "1"!

I also found that reducing your " Terrain Distance " stopped mine, I was only affected on TBC server's and this did work.

Did you seriously just quote someone from the previous post, without even adding anything useful to it?
You deserve your own paint face.

yea i quoted it couse that helped me too,so what?...

lol Peekaboo... You talk like you posted something useful on these forums yourself. EVER.
All you do is trash talk and make fun of others... you're the LVP of this forum lawl

Victort wrote:lol Peekaboo... You talk like you posted something useful on these forums yourself. EVER.
All you do is trash talk and make fun of others... you're the LVP of this forum lawl

Actually no, if you read his/her previous posts, they're usually the ones that actually make sense.

Running an i5 2500k, only enabling 2.4.3 to use 1 core. Minimum view distance and absolutely no difference in frequency of screen freeze occurrence. Yay!

Pls some whizzkid find a solution to this crap.

You rang?

Victort wrote:lol Peekaboo... You talk like you posted something useful on these forums yourself. EVER.
All you do is trash talk and make fun of others... you're the LVP of this forum lawl

You give me a hard time to not make fun of yours, poor peasant.