Performance problems

[Strawbclock0]

I've recently been having some problems in performance.

Everything seems to work fine, but gaming.
On World of Warcraft, a relatively simple game, I get extremely bad framerate issues, usually I get about 30-40 FPS, but recently I've been 10.

It also seems to be a problem in other games like Oblivion and Unreal tournament 3, but with WoW It's worst.

Help? Please?

 

[Luke]

heat issues?

 

[peterhuang913]

dust?

 

[Strawbclock0]

It's not dust, I've checked.

It could be heat, but that's highly unlikely, seeing as how I've run all these games before with no problems when it was hotter than it is now.

 

[Baez]

Well how many processes do you have running. Sounds like more of a software issue to me.

 

[Strawbclock0]

Forgive me as my rank states I am a techie newb. I am currently running 76 processes, not sure if that is a bad thing.

It could be a software issue but like I said, I'm not too sure. I might just have to ghost my computer and try again :/

 

[peterhuang913]

76 is pretty high..

 

[Strawbclock0]

Well, I lowered it down to 72 and still no luck.

Is there info I could give you that might help someone diagnose this?

 

[Baez]

72 is still really high. Run SpyBot and Ad-Aware remove anything they tell you to. Do you have an antivirus? If so which and what version.

I have quite a few processes and I only have an average of 50 running.

 

[Luke]

wow 76 is HIGH..i run with 35. Go uninstall any programs that you don't use often and then look again. If it's still above 50 go and delete about 20 more processes and see if that helps your performance.