Latop suddenly cannot handle most of my games

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Ok, so here is the issue...I have an Acer Aspire 5745g (cca 2 years old) and recently the laptop just cannot run most of the games which used to be no problem for it. The hardware is not damaged, I am sure of that, but the weird thing is that some games are no problem (to clarify: a simple game like Minecraft causes the laptop to freeze with the fans kicking in after a few minutes, which leads to an eventual automatic shutdown -if I do not force it to shut down. On the other hand, I can play World of Warcraft for hours and nothing happens, nothing overheats, everything runs smoothly...but as soon as I run any other game/software, the latop goes nuts).
I know this is kind of childish, but the reason why I want to play certain games is because I make money by plaing them (eg. FIFA 13), and the laptop has never had any problem with them.
Does anyone know what the problem could be?
 
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With laptops, first guess is always heat. Check the operation / cleanliness of the fan(s) and then a slightly obscure thing - I had a problem with an Acer Travelmate that was constantly running Everquest - turned out that lots of heat in the laptop had dried the thermal pad connecting the Southbridge to the heatpipe cooler. This caused random slowdows / crashes under gaming load and then finally blew altogether. Might be worth opening it up and checking the cooling system is still as it should be :)
 
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ALready done that (as I already said, the hardware is not a problem). It just seems weird to me that one game can run without any problem and many other games cannot, while being more demanding (in terms of specs).
 
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I have already checked that, hardware altogether seems flawless. My guess is software, but it is not a virus, there are no unknown/suspicious processes running, and to be honest I am geting more and more desperate, because so far nothing has helped, not even a tiny bit.
 
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Minecraft is horribly coded and takes up more resources than you would imagine - depending on settings / population, WoW can be extremely easy on the CPU / GPU
 
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So your guess is a faulty CPU/GPU or its cooling?
 
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Well, I did not mention it (but yeah, I checked the hardware in general), so you do not have to apologize. But do you have any other suggestions?
 
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Laptops are always a compromise between heat management and too much size / weight, so it's a natural presumption to guess that heat is the problem somewhere.

My next step after the physical check would be to use tools such as CPU-Z and GPU-Z to monitor performance, hopefully pointing to which component is causing the issues.
 
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Well, the thing is, everytime I try any game (except WoW), the CPU temperature just goes up gradually, but not reaching the extreme/risky heights (105 degrees in case of my CPU -Intel i7-740QM) and still causing the laptop to freeze and eventually shutdown. Would posting the error logs help anyhow?
 
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