Why does World of Warcraft lag?

Answer 1

You can lose your connection to the World of Warcraft server for any number of reasons. The most common is "lag", either through your internet provider or possibly because of a large population on the server, causing temporary disconnects.

Answer 2

Personally I get disconnected a lot because my computer is not that great. Others get disconnected cause their internet connection is not that great. Then there are times when all the servers just say "ENOUGH" and boot everyone. Well, not really, but something server side usually happens. The only thing you can do is to try and reconnect.

Answer 3

Someone else could be trying to log into your account, and you can't have 2 people on 1 account at the same time, Or your internet just sucks. But if you keep getting disconnected you should change your password because you might be getting hacked.

Answer 4

whenever someone else logs on your account you get disconnected, then you try to log on and disconnect them and the cycle keeps going on... thing is you should change ur password....

also, it could be your pinging of the server. what that means is your internet is very slow. what you want to do is close everything except for wow.

Answer 5

While there are a few reasons why the launcher cannot access the server, there are a few wow-specific reasons:

1) Check your firewall

Some firewalls block programs unless told otherwise - you might have skipped the confirmation message when the new launcher was implemented (every patch is basically a new launcher too) and blocked it accidentally.

Go into your firewall's settings and make sure that the wow launcher and worldofwarcraft.exe are not blocked.

2) Check your antivirus

Some antivirus programs think that the launcher is a virus by mistake - recently Avast antivirus believed it to be, and put it in quaraintaine (or the vault). First check your virus safe/vault/quaraintaine and undelete the launcher file if it is there.

Then, go into your antivirus settings and make sure that the world of warcraft\cache folder is in your exclusions list. There should also be a battle.net\cache folder in your PC account, exclude that as well. Reboot the PC and try the launcher again.

This advice is a bit vague, but that is mostly because it all works a little different for every antivirus program and operating system.

3) Run the repair tool

If all of this fails, backup your Interface, Cache and WTF folders from World of Warcraft, and run the repair.exe tool from the World of Warcraft directory. Have it scan for errors and fix them. Reboot the PC and try to run WoW again.

If nothing seems to work, it could be that you were trying to log in while the servers were down and you were temporarily blocked by Blizzard. In this case, there's little to do but wait for a few hours and hope the lock is removed.

More tips can be found at Blizzard's technical support forum on the website, in case nothing else works.

Answer 6

There are many possible reasons why WoW would freeze up when you try to play it:

• Your computer simply isn't powerful enough to run it.
• Your computer may be overheating due to a broken or obstructed case fan.
• You may have a virus or spyware interfering with your system.
• You are using a bad or out-of-date addon that is crashing your game.
• There is a bug in the game.

Without having any additional details about the nature of your problem, it is impossible to diagnose the root cause of the problem. However, in general, I would suggest the following:

• Ensure that your antivirus software is running and up-to-date. A good, free antivirus program is available at the link below.
• Scan your computer regularly for spyware/malware programs with SpyBot (available at the link below) or another similar program (such as AdAware)
• Regularly check your addons to make sure they are up-to-date. The Curse Client can assist with this (linked below)

Good luck!

Answer 7

There are a number of reasons why World of Warcraft won't load. It could be that your computer doesn't have the required memory for the game. Go to the Blizzard Support site to find out more.

Answer 8

World of Warcraft has many online players and has excellent graphics it can at sometimes be slower then other days..if it gets seriously bad you can just logout then log back in. :P

Answer 9

Everyone can get disconnected and eventually will. Disconnections most often occur because major Lag on sever , Sever Restart or Sever Shutdown.