Why can't my computer handle WW?

[Zogu]

Hmmm if you're running an anti-virus and/or a firewall, try to carefully turn them off for a few minutes. Then try running WW. Don't forget to turn your protections back on afterwards! Some crappy firewall programs are CPU hogs.

Otherwise, try to find out if there are some "hidden" programs or drivers eating up a lot of CPU. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and check the CPU usage, sort it by process. Anything special running in the background... an indexing process, a MP3 downloader, an unknown process, ...?

Run dxdiag and check your video drivers' compatibility; please provide your current DirectX version.