FPS Problems

[mwcj09]

Recently i have been getting very low Frames per second in-game and not sure why. I have changed and tinkered with every option to help maximize my fps but no luck. Im clueless to why my in-game fps went from 30-40 down to 4... Any information would be helpful, hoping to fix it before i decide to format everything and start fresh.

Computer referring to: Dell Latitude D520, 2GB Ram upgrade and 250GB DH upgrade, everything else is stock.

 

[burble56]

what game is it?
It might be possible that your laptop overheated while playing the game
get a cooling pad on it and it'll work fine
btw you also might want to defrag your hardrive just to be safe.

 

[opexx]

yeah you need to check your cpu usage, if something is using up all your resources (virus/adware/malware) then thats a big reason for fps drop. Especially if it started out of nowhere.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Burble56 is probably correct if nothing else changed - your laptop is too hot. Shut down the PC over night, power it up and let us know if that allows your games to run at full speed again.

Also those laptops had some issues with the video card thermal paste. Its possible that needs to be corrected.

 

[mwcj09]

what game is it?
It might be possible that your laptop overheated while playing the game
get a cooling pad on it and it'll work fine
btw you also might want to defrag your hardrive just to be safe.

Its World Of Warcraft
I have a cooling pad because it does get hot.
I did defrag.

 

[mwcj09]

yeah you need to check your cpu usage, if something is using up all your resources (virus/adware/malware) then thats a big reason for fps drop. Especially if it started out of nowhere.

I dont run nything in the background that i know of. I dont use virus protection programs because im never on the web and if im inline its to play wow. But because of that i might have malware that i dont know about causing my computer to run a lot slower.

 

[mwcj09]

Burble56 is probably correct if nothing else changed - your laptop is too hot. Shut down the PC over night, power it up and let us know if that allows your games to run at full speed again.

Also those laptops had some issues with the video card thermal paste. Its possible that needs to be corrected.

Yeah i have had it shut down over night and tried first thing when it was cool, but it still did the same thing. This has been ongoing for 3 days now. But i did notice when i did a full restart and got back into the game i did have about 30fps for just a few moments before it fell back to 4fps. Which makes it even more strange because i know its capable of running at 40fps, besides its ran at 40 for the past few years.

I wouldn't know about the thermo paste on the chip, never wanted to mess with the laptop to that point.

 

[mwcj09]

Best answer selected by mwcj09.

 

[mwcj09]

what game is it?
It might be possible that your laptop overheated while playing the game
get a cooling pad on it and it'll work fine
btw you also might want to defrag your hardrive just to be safe.

I broke down my laptop today and redid the paste on the processor and cleaned out the heat-sync and that seemed to fix it. ty.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Glad to hear!