So far, I consider starting CA from the website to be a COMPLETE EPIC FAIL. It takes me twice as long to log on, about 3-4 times as long to actually log off and my lag is much worse than it's ever been. Seriously. EVER.
And this is after spending the last couple weeks cleaning out my harddrive. I've moved a ton of stuff to an external drive, burned stuff onto cd and deleted a ton more. Every other game I've played has been a little quicker, easier and better. Combat Arms is the only one that's been running WORSE than it used to run.
Having a window running while playing is exactly what I DON'T want. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but I'm giving CA one more chance, then I'm deleting it completely.