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When under heavy load, such as when I'm in a 50v50 zone in WoW, my game seems to pause every 1 second or so. The pause only lasts for a fraction of a second, but it is very frustrating. I thought it was an overheating problem, but my CPU is only just touching 70 C and my GPU peaks at 60 C. What could be causing this? Thanks in advance : )

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
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Power Supply: Rosewill Capstone 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply
 
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Yes very sure. I bet that out of the 100 players in the zone, others are having some issues as well. It is very common in WoW. It does vary according to many variables. Each player connects to the server first from your computer to your ISP. There the connection is handed off across the internet in what is supposed to be the best rout to the game server. However the connection goes through many server nodes on its' way there. Each one is a possible source of issue. As I said you might get some improvement by turning down the graphics quality. This is only a work around in the sense that you then reduce the amount of data you are sending and receiving with the server. I bet stand alone games run just fine it is only those requiring a...
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Network congestion usually not under your control and or server saturation also nutin you can do about it. Try lowering your graphics details might help some. When in use as you describe there is a very large amount of data that must be sent-received-sent.... between you and the server.
 
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Are you sure? Nobody else seems to be complaining of this.
 
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Yes very sure. I bet that out of the 100 players in the zone, others are having some issues as well. It is very common in WoW. It does vary according to many variables. Each player connects to the server first from your computer to your ISP. There the connection is handed off across the internet in what is supposed to be the best rout to the game server. However the connection goes through many server nodes on its' way there. Each one is a possible source of issue. As I said you might get some improvement by turning down the graphics quality. This is only a work around in the sense that you then reduce the amount of data you are sending and receiving with the server. I bet stand alone games run just fine it is only those requiring a live connection to a server. Your system is more than good enough to run WoW, it is the network/internet connection with the server that is bringing you lag.
 
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Wait, when you say "pause every 1 second" Do you mean that in a typical FPS lag type of deal or do you mean some sort of latency/rubber banding issue?

Network congestion or slow internet speeds in general do not cause any FPS lag at all. You already have all of the textures for everything the server just has to tell you where the player is standing and what hes wearing or where some minor event related objects are in the world. Then your computer puts up the texture, the textures don't get sent over the internet from blizzards servers that would cause way to much latency lag. If dogsnake wasn't saying that then I misunderstood.
 
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I was responding to what I thought he was describing, which to me sounded like the very common server induced effect so many call lag. I have suggested twice he check it out with the graphics settings lowered. It is always possible that his card, cpu and or memory can not keep up with the data being pushed to them. Certainly I expressed an opinion based on somewhat limited description. However if he does not have these issues in demanding stand alone games, I would then continue to think it is a network issue. Another indication would be if he is able to play without lag at other times during the day or in smaller XvX scenarios. Finally when in 50v50 raids no event is minor as there is a huge amount of changing data streaming back and forth. Sorry for any confusion.
 
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I mean the screen pauses as in freezes for the moment. There is no latency issue at all, which is why i did not think it was a network problem to begin with. The fps dips to about 20-30, but does not go below that. Every second or so it feels like the fps drops extremely low, however my tooltip in game says nothing about it and says it stays above 20. The pause is very brief. Thanks in advance.
 
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Two options to narrow this down:
1) Run the game on low and see if the pausing still occurs.

2) Download MSi Afterburner and run the on screen display while in game and during a situation where you would normally have these stutters.

Do you happen to be using a mac?

Heres a thread I found and even if you're not on a mac I'd suggest trying it anyways since it is the problem you are having: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/15007371444

Also try enabling vsync and triple buffering.
 
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