Warcraft 3 - low fps...

lasvegass

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Hey guys!
I recently installed Warcraft 3 on my computer and I have some issues with the fps drop when there is a big crowd of units, fighting, dying, or anything.
When I play the simple game, my fps starts with a stable 60 (this is the max. fps in Warcraft 3 I think). Then it starts to get lower when I have many units, and in huge fights it even goes below 20 sometimes, like 15-16...
It is even worse when playing huge custom maps, for example the Game of Thrones map. There I start with around 25-30 fps, and it drops down to 10 sometimes.

I've had some fps issues with other games too, for example Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite, and Dota 2 but all of the problems disappeared after I turned off Turbo Boost and now they run smoothly with ultra settings. (and these games are not, cannot be compared with a 11 year old game...)

My computer:
Alienware 14m, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 2GB, 8 gb ram, 33 ssd (on cache), quad core cpu.
I have Windows 7 64 bit.
I turned Vsync on-and-off in the NCP, tried triple buffering high performance nvidia processor ofc, and some other things. I tried modifying the regedit, but the only thing I achieved was mouse delay so I changed it back (I have no clue which one caused it so I changed everything back).

Please help me!

ps.: FPS freak me out in general. Dota 2 runs only with around 40 fps, I have NO CLUE why. I mean... my graphics should be able to run these games with high fps shouldn't it?
 
The GeForce GT 650M is going to be somewhere in the ballpark of a regular, GTX 460. I would not expect it to perform ideally in all situations, especially if you have a full HD screen and are running your games at that resolution. You might have better luck finding comparisons for your game scores by looking up some GTX 460 results.
 

lasvegass

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Good to know, thanks!

That doesn't help though with Warcraft 3.. GTX 460 is still more than enough for this game. I mean... Warcraft 3's system requirements are a 8 MB video card, 128 mb ram, and a 400 mhz Pentium 2 processor.
So comparing my graphics card to this game's requirements is obviously ridiculous, the problem cannot be hardware related.

There must be a problem with my computer's settings or software, this is what I wish to find. I don't have any clue about optimizing a computer to a game, thus I asked here.