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Hey what's going on guys? Its Darth. I've been having this annoying problem where my fps randomly drops CRAZY low, then stays there and doesn't raise back up. Basically, I'll be hitting around 45, 50, 60 fps throughout the game for the longest time. Then, about half-hour (or more, sometimes less, depends) it just randomly hits 9-11fps, and stays. Its highly disturbing and frustrating. I know it isn't the video/graphics card because I wouldn't stay at a constant high fps.. It is quite an old laptop (2009ish) I am running on, definitely not compatible with "high-powered gaming" but it shouldn't be THIS bad running a 2003 game, especially when I run it on the lowest settings possible.  I've updated my drivers as well. Also, I have a cooling-pad so it doesn't get hot.

I've done basically everything. Lowered the settings clear to "lowest" - 800x600 res, still fps drops. Turned off all programs, did a disk defragment on the hard drive, cleaned the computer, scanned it. Also fixed the registry. Turned my color depth in graphic options to 16bit, instead of 32 bit. Removed the Window 7 customization. And I've also set the priority to above normal, and high. Still, nothing. I don't know what else to try honestly like.. 

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much for the help!


-Darth