10.7 Game performance

After installing 10.7 the previous night, I find that WoW seems to have taken large performance hits.  WoW for exampe, is neting about a 100% loss in fps (in Orgimmar) on ultra settings.  Moving is sluggish, clunky, and comes with a delay. 
I can't say if Team Fortress 2's performance is worse because of 10.7 or because of Valves recent update.  I do believe it may be a combination of both.
Anyone else having similar symptoms?
I'm using an ATI 5870 HD, if that's relevant to anyone else.
I suppose I'll just have to go back to Snow leopard until Lion is a bit more polished.

I have a gaming performance issue, but I'm not sure if it is relevant to your case. After fresh start gaming perfomance is good, as it is supposed to be. But after I put computer to sleep and woken it up again FPS takes a huge hit. It seems that it becomes capped at 20 FPS regardless of 3D scene complexity. Relogging doesn't help. Computer restart does.
Tested on World of Warcraft and Prey. Both games have this huge performance drop after sleep. But in WoW the start screen animation plays smoothly in any case, which puzzles me.
I'm using Radeon 5770 on Mac Pro (early 2008).

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