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Intermittent major FPS drops when dragging the main WeakAuras configuration window

brittyazel opened this issue ยท 7 comments

commented

Is there an existing issue for this?

  • I have searched the existing open and closed issues.

Description

Sometimes when dragging the main WeakAuras configuration menu I suffer from major FPS drops that continually get worse the longer I continue dragging. The issue does not always happen, and I'm unsure of what the trigger is, but there are times after typing /wa and bringing up the window that moving it will cause my FPS to drop from 144 to <30fps. And the more I move the window, the slower and slower the game bogs down.

I'm not sure if this is new behavior or not, but I don't remember this being an issue. Likewise, after few minutes the issue seems to just disappear, and dragging the window goes back to the normal behavior. I apologise for not giving you more to go on regarding how to trigger the bug, but it's happened multiple times in the last few days - enough to lead me to want to report it. Nevertheless, whenever I try to record it happening the issue seems to have resolved itself.

WeakAuras Version

WeakAuras 5.12.5

World of Warcraft Flavor

Retail (Default)

World of Warcraft Region

US/NA

Tested with only WeakAuras

  • Yes

Lua Error

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Reproduction Steps

  1. Enter the game
  2. Press CTRL + F to see FPS
  3. Type /wa to bring up the menu
  4. Drag the window and watch FPS drop from 144 to <30fps
  5. Keep dragging to see it go lower and lower

Last Good Version

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commented

your weakauras settings file, found at WTF\Account<Account #>\SavedVariables\WeakAuras.lua

commented

Please include your settings in the bug report.

commented

Which settings? In what form do you want me to provide that info?

commented

Here you go. I had to zip up the specific file due to GitHub indicating that they don't allow .lua files directly.

WeakAuras.zip

commented

I'm not able to reproduce the issue with your settings while dragging WeakAurasOptions frame for a long time, i lose at max 10 fps (95->85 with all max settings in valdrakken) if i move it fast but get back to normal when i stop

The code use for moving the frame do 1 api call when mouse button is down, and a bit more when mouse button is back up, but nothing special in between.

commented

Yes, it's inconsistent like I stated before, but when it happens it's very, very obvious. I don't know what triggers it either. Perhaps the slow down comes from loading assets into memory in an on-demand fashion. That could explain why the issue eventually resolves seemingly randomly.

commented

It look to me that if there is a problem the only ones able to fix it are Blizzard or your GPU's vendor with a driver update. WeakAuras doesn't do anything particular while windows is dragged.