Quote Originally Posted by 'succulent',index.php?page=Thread&postID=187371#po st187371
As others have mentioned, Dalaran performance is all about your system RAM. I hardware box, and one machine has only 2gb of ram -- it takes a very long time to zone into Dal.
Heh, I was running my main on one computer and the other four characters on a second computer, a quad-core CPU with 2GB RAM. So my group hits 74 and get ported to Dalaran and... every... thing... comes... to... a... halt...

I really could not measure performance as frames-per-second, but literally by seconds-per-frame. Out of 2GB RAM, the amount shown as "free" in Task Manager hovered between 2-4MB, which meant I had run out of RAM and was thrashing the hard disks for all that they were worth. So I bit the bullet and upgraded that system to 8GB RAM and Vista 64 and presto... Dalaran was playable and in the 20-30 FPS range. Mind you, I always run the alts on the lowest graphics settings and at 800x600 per instance. The memory was the thing.

And then I quit playing WoW again. :S But that system is my main system now, and runs Photoshop like a dream...