I was thinking of upgrading my pc/video to use a 280 (or maybe 275) so I hope this gets resolved

I noticed my wow windowed windows show "(not responding)" in the title during load - maybe that's how they made it "faster" by not processing OS events during load; which makes it seems wow hang but eventually come back

I used to have black textures a lot back in bc times; it went away with a patch or driver upgrade I don't remember which