After the last big patch, I have experienced constant lockups on my G5 tower Mac.

The crashes are frequent, and can happen anyplace in the game, at any time, but most frequently while moving, flying, or going from zone to zone. The symptoms are a sudden freeze, a spinning beach ball, ambient sound continues in the background, but the Mac becomes unresponsive. You have a cursor, but menus don't pull down and the dock doesn't come up. Command-option-escape does not bring up a force quit dialog. Your only option is a hard reboot.

I have reported this issue in other threads, as have many other people, but it seems to be falling under the radar of the Devs.

But let me put it to you this way: today I tried to fly one of my toons from Dal to Conquest hold. I locked up three times on the way. Three times. Each time I had to reboot, relaunch WoW, and start flying again.

I give up.

I have done all the standard fixes, flushed my cache, turned off addons, etc.

My system was rock stable before the patch. Now I can't play at all.

I am giving up on WoW for now. After almost three weeks of frustration, I have decided to take a hiatus from the game. Maybe I'll buy Cata when it comes out, maybe I won't.

For what it's worth, here is my information:

Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.4f0
Serial Number (system):
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-000A95BB4B6A

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro:

Chipset Model: ATY,R350
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4e48
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-A14402-104
Displays:
Apple Cinema Display:
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected

System Software Overview:

System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
Boot Mode: Normal
Computer Name:
User Name:
Time since boot: 31 minutes

I will try logging on once a week. If I crash, I'll try again a week later. If it is still doing this after a month, I'll close my account.

Hello Bluecross,

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Q u o t e:
I have done all the standard fixes, flushed my cache, turned off AddOns, etc.

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Have you reset PRAM or removed the trinity completely ? Turning off AddOns doesn't go far enough...

With the game closed please:

1. go to your Macintosh HD => Applications => World of Warcraft Æ’older and
2. delete the CACHE Æ’older
3. move WTF and INTERFACE Æ’olders to the desktop*

*gives you the option to be able to move them back and replace the newly formed ones if you want