WoW = less performance?

[EloTheMan]

So,

I bought a new computer like 2 months ago and I decided to start playing wow again. And now, 15 days later after installing wow I get a feeling my computer is slower and doesnt perform as good as before.

I have been playing LoL and Company of Heroes on highest video quality without my fps going lower than 40 but in wow I play with "Low" settings and I still get lags in the center of Orgrimmar.

Is it just me or is wow lowering the performance of a computer?

 

[Grey Nightmare]

..No I assure you WoW will not be making your computer slower.
It might be latency induced lag, due to a poor internet connection as opposed to hardware lag, being an MMORPG.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is impossible for software to degrade the performance of a computer system. It is possible for software to degrade performance of other software when running by consuming system resources but turning such software off will immediatly fix the problem. Additionally various updates to software (such as drivers) might make degrade performance if a unintentional bug is introduced but these get eventually patched.

Over time some pieces of hardware such as hard disks or disk drives can degrade in performance due to mechanical wear. This usually is a concern after many years and not days.

I advise making sure you have not picked up any malware as those can noticably slow system performance.

 

[Gilles]

I advise making sure you have not picked up any malware as thoughs can noticably slow system performance.

This.

 

[EloTheMan]

Thanks for the replies, it helped cooling off my paranoia for a while ^^

 

[PurgeandFire]

You will always lag in the center of ogrimmar, everyone does. Make your home dalaran and use the port in dalaran to get to org whenever you need to be there.

 

[EloTheMan]

You will always lag in the center of ogrimmar, everyone does. Make your home dalaran and use the port in dalaran to get to org whenever you need to be there.

Sweet I love Dalaran

but seriously i managed to keep my fps above 30 in Org yesterday, I don't know what made the difference since I had all the usual setting, no patch download and closed all the background programs.

Maybe my computer is haunted... il search for a forum that is concentrated on that

How do I know that my computer is haunted?

 

[Dr Super Good]

How do I know that my computer is haunted?

By the fact computers can not be haunted thus logically it must not be haunted.

 

[Super-Sheep]

I still remember Dalaran with my old laptop...

I simply had to look towards the ground and it took like 2 minutes to actually load all of the things, until then there were just floating effects and stuff.