Hey guys, so I have ran into a problem during the past couple of days. I bought a Lenovo Y400 laptop around last May, and have played many games (ex: Diablo III, Starcraft II, Bioshock, The Witcher II, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare) at very high graphics settings without any lag.
A couple days ago, I turned my computer on and started trying to play Starcraft II, but was met by extreme lag and choppiness. Even when I turned the graphics settings from Extreme down to the lowest possible settings, the game still did not run smoothly and was quite laggy.
I hadn't used my computer for a couple days prior to the FPS problem, so there were no installations or anything that could have potentially caused the problem.
Today I cleaned my fan with compressed air, but that didn't seem to do anything. I also ran a full system scan with Bitdefender Internet Security 2014, but no viruses were found.
Around the same time I experienced the FPS drops I also noticed that my computer was quite a bit noisier than usual, but was blowing room temperature air and did not seem to be overheating.
I have no idea what this problem could be, so any help is greatly appreciated.
Computer Specs:
CPU/Chipset - 3rd generation Intel® Core i7-3630QM (2.40GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
Memory - 8GB (DDR3) (16GB Max Capacity)
Graphics - NVIDIA® GeForce® GT650M GDDR5 2GB
A couple days ago, I turned my computer on and started trying to play Starcraft II, but was met by extreme lag and choppiness. Even when I turned the graphics settings from Extreme down to the lowest possible settings, the game still did not run smoothly and was quite laggy.
I hadn't used my computer for a couple days prior to the FPS problem, so there were no installations or anything that could have potentially caused the problem.
Today I cleaned my fan with compressed air, but that didn't seem to do anything. I also ran a full system scan with Bitdefender Internet Security 2014, but no viruses were found.
Around the same time I experienced the FPS drops I also noticed that my computer was quite a bit noisier than usual, but was blowing room temperature air and did not seem to be overheating.
I have no idea what this problem could be, so any help is greatly appreciated.
Computer Specs:
CPU/Chipset - 3rd generation Intel® Core i7-3630QM (2.40GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
Memory - 8GB (DDR3) (16GB Max Capacity)
Graphics - NVIDIA® GeForce® GT650M GDDR5 2GB