Steam Service and World of Warcraft & Oculus Rift

[TangoDown]

So randomly my World of Warcraft Started Crashing. so I went threw the painful steps of eliminating every possible issue and found that Steam Client Service was causing the Issue.

I am 100% sure that this is the issue as I striped my windows down bare disabled every single possible service/app from running including as much of Windows Service as I could. Ran WoW worked fine, re-added steam service and Started getting crashes. I found that this issue has happened before due to conflicts in DirectX 12, so I launched wow using DirectX 11 and re-enabled Steam Service. But sadly only a day went by and the issue returned.

Now for Oculus rift It doesn't seem to Cause as many issues but with steam service Running I get random video lag/delay in my head set Witch also seemed to go away with steam client service not running.

So All that info and my question(s) are, is this a known issue and is there a solution to fix it?

[Brujeira]

Yeah, shut Steam down completely before starting WoW. Also, perhaps go old school like us former raiders and play WoW on a plain ordinary monitor? Shut down the VR stuff too and all the software conflicts disappear.

[TangoDown]

Well the thing is I have to disable the service and restart my computer every time I want to play wow Its quite a pain in the arse. I'd rather not have to do That every single.