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Random screen freezes 1-5 seconds

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hi, i'm experiencing random screen freezes from time to time even when i'm not casting spells or anything excesive is going on, everything is updated and should be working fine.

specs :

intel i5-4590 cupu @ 3.30ghz
8GB ram
AMD radeon r9 200 series 3GB

who can enlighten me & fix these freezes, thanks in advance.
 

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Did it work fine before?

I have seen some reports over on reddit in /r/AMD that the new Adrenaline graphics drivers don't play nice with some older games.

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The screen freezes are probably the Lua garbage collector running. The Vanilla WoW uses Lua 5.0 for AddOn scripting, and has a simple "stop everything" garbage collector. This was fixed with Lua 5.1 when TBC came out.

The collector will trigger whenever your Lua environment reaches a certain memory threshold. Increasing the script memory on your AddOns page (lower left button on character selection screen) usually fixes the problem. If it persists, look for any AddOns that are using a lot memory (the AH scanners and DPS meters can do that).

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