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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2181219" data-attributes="member: 3649">After I got my machine back from the shop for a second time, I settled down to play WoW again. It's been two weeks and everything was working fine. Until last night.Just before I was getting ready to get off for the night, suddenly the game lags and freezes and the sound starts to crackle and repeat. No problem I think, the goddamn thing lags now and then but this is different. Unlike with normal lag, I can't do squat except wait there for the thing to unfreeze in tiny increments, all the while the sound is popping and crackling and stuttering. Finally I get the game shut down.I go back into the game... and the lag is gone but sound is still crackling horribly.I reboot. Suddenly, it's taking my machine several times longer than it normally did to reboot! The machine is noticably sluggish when it finally does come back. Go back into WoW. Same thing. Disgusted, I shut the thing down and run some machine diagnostics. Nothing shows up but I can't find how to find what's slowing the machine down.I reboot again. STILL sluggish on reboot. Still noticeably slow. I do some writing, read some comics and go to bed. This morning, then this afternoon. Still sluggish on reboot, so it's some kind of permanent problem until I can find it or pay someone else to find it. I have all new drivers, blah, blah, no need to defrag, no spyware, no virus, blah blah.Of course the game and website have been down all morning because of the new patch and that always throws things for a total loop, unlike City of Heroes where they patch it and it's fine. The website came back up by this afternoon so I downloaded the new patch. As always it takes me like 30 minutes to download it over broadband. I run the patch, fire it up and the sound still crackles. The tech boards have tons and tons of pages of people having problems like this introduced by the game and yet there are very, very few responses, and those are to the easy fixes. No serious time seems to go to the hard fixes that keep people from playing or cause actual machine-level problems.I've almost had it. I'll try a couple more fixes and fiddle with it some, but I shouldn't damn have to. I'm sick to death of fiddling with my PC just to get a goddamn game to run. The second they ever come out with something like this for the XBox or whatever, I'm abandoning PC gaming forever. I could understand the game freezing, or even simply not being able to play it on my system. For it to actually go out and CAUSE system problems when the game ain't even running is totally wrong and I WILL find a way to get it fixed.</blockquote>

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