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I don't see portraits in the game, they are almost all black circles. Sometimes it looks like the portrait camera zoomed in to the wrong part of the model and it's just some lines of undistinguishable textures. I have tried clearing the WDB folder and ticking the option to auto-delete it on launch, I have also reinstalled. I use 0 addons of any kind. I remember I had a similar issue on twow, but I forgot how I fixed it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Same here man, its annoying. Also I get a horrific lag, drops to 1fps when turning the camera.

Having the same issue, it's not game breaking. The screen stutter when moving camera can be fixed by just turning down graphics setting and it fixed it for me.

Same thing for me. Running this with no addons of any sort on an Intel Arc 140V (integrated).

Black portratis and stuttering when moving the camera.

I'm not able to use DXVK as that just crashes the game on startup.

Later edit: The Modernization Tool fixed these problems for me.

Mcmunce1 wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 2:51 am Having the same issue, it's not game breaking. The screen stutter when moving camera can be fixed by just turning down graphics setting and it fixed it for me.

I fixed this by lowering the Render distance in the launcher to 500

Can confirm, Maza's solution works! Mine was defaulted at 750 before I made the change to 500.

In case if folks are still confused, tho, it's listed as 'World Distance' under 'Tweaks' in the Octo Updater launcher.

Having the same problem with the mouse stutter and black portraits. None of the responses here have been of any help

Behrtio wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2026 7:07 pm Having the same problem with the mouse stutter and black portraits. None of the responses here have been of any help

I was able to fix the black portraits by installing the game from the launcher, not a standalone.

As for the stuttering, I've tried everything available in the Mods section to modernize everything, I've changed my refresh rate in the config.wtf to 144, I've changed DPI scaling on the WoW.exe program itself, and still I get stutter and frame lag when I move my mouse in the client.