This is new since last night.

Adjusting any slider in the Character Creator causes my FPS to go from 58-60 to 5 FPS. Anyone else notice this since the headstart began?

The only way to test it that I could find is to log in with a character and turn on the FPS counter with /showfps 1, then log out and make a new character. It is happening to me when moving any of the face or body sliders and lasts until you release them. In OB, my FPS never dipped below 58 anywhere in the CC...

MY SPECS:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 2.4GHz 110w
RAM: 3GB 400MHz DDR
GPU: GTX280 1GB
OS: WinXP SP3 32-bit

I noticed this as well.

Core I7 920
Geforce 280 GTX
Win Vista 64

I saw this as well

Yep, me too.

I have this too. It isn't bad enough to make character creation immpossible but it does make small adjustments a little harder to make. The slowdown does stop as soon as I finish moving the slider(s).

Yup, I noticed the same thing as well.

Same thing, new since yesterday.

Both my wife and I are having this issue as well... Strangely, this seems to be a live client issue, as we didn't have this issue ever in open beta.

I'm also having this issue. It makes fine-detail sculpting in the character VERY frustrating.

I get a solid 50-60 FPS nearly everywhere else in the game (very high population areas, like Qularr invasion sites, will drop me to 35-40), but in the character creator I drop immediately to 5-10, and as soon as I release the slider I visibly watch the screen stutter and go back to 50-60 FPS.

This didn't happen to me in beta at all.

/bump
/hypacritical - post system specs, or at least GFX card.

Nvidia user here, sadly ><