Missing animations/sound with windows 11 suspected involvement

[WarCortez]

I have a humble 1.26 version which worked fine before but I had a longer vacation from Warcraft and a win 11 upgrade was forced on everyone since then. Now, when I've returned to the game, I've seen missing death animation for militia, spells animations and attack sounds missing, and who knows what else is there. I've tried some recommended fixes like disabling windows animations, exploit protection setting and a restart but they didn't fix the issue. I'm sure I can't be the only one with that problem and I wonder what kind of fix there is for that bug.

 

[Quetra]

I periodically get missing spell animations and have done on several different pcs for many years with older versions of Windows as well as Windows 11. Same bug has occured on 1.26 and Reforged. Never found a cause or fix, it just goes away eventually.

Not a super helpful reply but if you are suffering from the same issue as me it is unlikely to be Windows 11 related. I have always had Nvidia graphics cards.

 

[WarCortez]

I periodically get missing spell animations and have done on several different pcs for many years with older versions of Windows as well as Windows 11. Same bug has occured on 1.26 and Reforged. Never found a cause or fix, it just goes away eventually.

Not a super helpful reply but if you are suffering from the same issue as me it is unlikely to be Windows 11 related. I have always had Nvidia graphics cards.

I did not experience this on win 10. It started yesterday and it didn't randomly go away which is why I suspect win 11.

 

[A]mun]

Are you restarting your pc every now and then?
Seems odd, but that can help with caches etc (proper restart mind you, not shut down).

 

[WarCortez]

Are you restarting your pc every now and then?
Seems odd, but that can help with caches etc (proper restart mind you, not shut down).

There was a windows 11 update recently, it fixed the water elemental sound and animation but the militia still turns to regular peasant when dying, only it has animation, not just appears as a corpse.
I restarted the pc, it didn't do any difference.
EDIT: I tried changing the militia into another alternate form and it also reverted into peasant on death. If this is a scripting bug with ability, I'm curious if anyone else has it.

 

[Ravager16829]

Some models tend to broke with the loads in-game. UD and NE build animation gets messed up for some reason, while special effects for certain abilities don't work as intended (like Impale or BoF). This happens when you accidentally minimized the game using Alt+Tab method. Try restarting your system to see if the bug appears.

Sadly, that was one of the bug which has been like that for a decade, even before Reforged came out. Another tip, you should not be using the latest update of Windows 11 (24H2 and 25H2) because there were many reports that latest Windows 11 updates had broke compatibilities for certain games (Valorant is a big example; possibly due to the Vanguard's TPM stuff). You can either roll back to the previous update of Windows 11 (23H2) or go stick back to Windows 10.

 

[WarCortez]

Some models tend to broke with the loads in-game. UD and NE build animation gets messed up for some reason, while special effects for certain abilities don't work as intended (like Impale or BoF). This happens when you accidentally minimized the game using Alt+Tab method. Try restarting your system to see if the bug appears.

Sadly, that was one of the bug which has been like that for a decade, even before Reforged came out. Another tip, you should not be using the latest update of Windows 11 (24H2 and 25H2) because there were many reports that latest Windows 11 updates had broke compatibilities for certain games (Valorant is a big example; possibly due to the Vanguard's TPM stuff). You can either roll back to the previous update of Windows 11 (23H2) or go stick back to Windows 10.

Right now the only animation issue that persistent is the militia turning back into peasant on death, no matter how much I restart. I don't know how it works for others. A chemical rage makeshift alternative for call to arms kept the death animation of the militia which is why I wonder if there's something with the ability but I'd need confirmation from others.
I'm not using Vanguard, it's an invasive abomination. Rolling back to win 10 is not an option due to its security reasons, even though I really dislike win 11.

 

[Ravager16829]

Right now the only animation issue that persistent is the militia turning back into peasant on death, no matter how much I restart. I don't know how it works for others. A chemical rage makeshift alternative for call to arms kept the death animation of the militia which is why I wonder if there's something with the ability but I'd need confirmation from others.

I haven't such an idea about that problem. It could be related to game file itself or maybe your hardware.

I'm not using Vanguard, it's an invasive abomination.

Same mate. I haven't touched that stuff. The latest update of Valorant becomes unplayable, unless I upgraded my PC.

Rolling back to win 10 is not an option due to its security reasons, even though I really dislike win 11.

Most people still use Win 10, even if its official support was discontinued. I did that a few weeks ago.

The only problem that I encountered with Win 11 is that some old tools won't work.

(Sorry for off-topic things)

 

[WarCortez]

I haven't such an idea about that problem. It could be related to game file itself or maybe your hardware.

I don't know. I don't recall seeing it before but if you start a game, turn the peasants into militia then kill one of them, you can see if they have militia or peasant animation. I don't know the origin of the problem, it's like how the mountain king switches back from its ult during death.

 

[deepstrasz]

No mods installed for the game? Tried a fresh reinstall?

 

[WarCortez]

No mods installed for the game? Tried a fresh reinstall?

I use no mods. I did what I could but I can't tell if call to arms has an inherent bug or it's system-based. Demon hunter and alchemist alternate deaths work fine.