I patched up to the new patch and the game runs pretty good for me.


However, there is one new strange thing I noticed. It's not gamebreaking, but it is new since this patch.

Whenever I hit the PLAY button on the WoW Launcher, it takes about 10 seconds for the game to load to the log-in screen.

Before the patch, this happened instantly.

I defragmented after the patch finished, so it's not that.


Did Blizzard add a new background scanner of some sort that runs when you hit PLAY to check for hack or something? That's the only thing I can figure that's causing the extra launch time.

Again, this is not a rant or a QQ or even a complaint. I'm just curious as to wh ythis is happeneing and if I'm the only one who noticed this.