poor wrath of the lich king performance

If more demanding games run well it may not be your computer.

How populated is your realm on World Of Warcraft? It may be time to transfer to a lower populated realm.

Are there any programs that are downloading updates in the background? They may be eating up too much bandwidth. If there are they will be in the system tray.

It doesn't really seem like Blizzard has EVER taken much time in optimizing their games for modern hardware. WoW barely just started taking advantage of dual-cores (years after they hit the market), and still doesn't take advantage of SLI or CrossFire. Whos to blame? All the people that still use minimum requirement machines because all they do is play wow...a game with a 8 year old graphics engine (remember, its the same engine used in WC3). From their standpoint, why spend the time optimizing a game for 2% of your subscribers? From mine...get off your asses, quit adding crap content...and modernize your game.

However...that's just my opinion.

For the record...I use:

AMD Phenom X4 9850 BE @ 2.8ghz

4GB DDR2

nVidia GeForce GTX 260 SP216 (heavily overclocked)

Windows XP Pro x64 (yes, I do have vista as well).

I can play EVERY modern game at 1920x1200 maxed out...but like you, wow gives me problems. Is it because it's a demanding game? No. It's because Blizzard won't take the time to modernize an 8 year old graphics engine. Then again...how much can it really be modernized at this point?

Far as I know, if you don't already, don't have the shadows maxed. Very big performance hit when they are turned up all the way. Thats the only thing I can think of.ChubbyGuy40

I'm going to have to agree with Chubby on that one. If you have your shadows maxed out you should really look in to lowering that graphical option, it will really improve your performance.