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Wit's End over performance issues
Ok, so I'm going to go insane over this computer.
I have a year old Asus laptop that about a week or two ago started experiencing slowdowns while gaming. At first I thought it was a internet related issue, as I was on wireless and I was seeing pings of 300ish (I had these pings for a while, no slowdown, so I never worried about it). I tried to wire the laptop into the router, no effect, and I reduced the ping to about 30 m/s by gutting SafeEyes from my computer.
Next, I updated all the drivers on the computer and got all the windows updates to no effect. I lowered the graphics settings on my games, no effect. The only thing that seems to help is to shut off the computer, and upon startup I can get about 30mins of uninterrupted play before I get the first slowdown, at which point they start up.
It happens regardless of online/offline play, and I currently experience it on Savage 2, Heroes of Newerth, and Black & White 2. I'm reinstalling World of Warcraft to see if it suffers from the issue. Normal programs don't seem to suffer, and I can play a N64 emulator with no problem (maybe not a graphics specific problem).
Specs:
OS:Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit (build 7600) (Originally Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
System: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. G50V 1.0
Processor: 2.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo T5750 2.00GHz
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Circuit Board: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. G50V 1.0
Bus Clock: 167 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 202 06/13/2008
189.56 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
91.10 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HGB TE30XEJO1E SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
ST9200420AS [Hard drive] (200.05 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 5SH051FG, rev 3.AAA, SMART Status: Healthy
Graphics card: GeForce 9700m GT 512mb
I'll try anything. Maybe something is physically slowing it down? Dirt or overheating?
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