Question GTX 960 getting very low FPS

[Cleric_of_Vecna]

I really meant to get around to this a while back, but my computer has been running extremely slow recently. I used to play WoW with around 80 FPS on Medium quality or so but now I can barely play it on low. They've updated a lot of it and made new models, but I doubt that alone is the issue.

I feel in general that my computer is slowing down. I've never done a tune up of any kind, never tried to see how far I could push the limits of my machine, mostly because I never really knew where to go to ask, so I figured I would give this a shot.

When I try to go to msinfo32 to give my specs it tells me "Can't collect information" and tells me to make sure Winmgmt is running. This ended up being a half an hour of googling that did absolutely nothing for me, so I'll just give you what information I can and if I'm missing anything just let me know.

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: n/a
System Model: n/a
BIOS: n/a (type: UEFI)
Processor: n/a (8 CPUs)
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16274MB RAM
Page File: 11018MB used, 10057MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
DxDiag Version: 10.00.17763.0001 64bit Unicode

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 960M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Render-Only Device
Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
Display Memory: 10146 MB
Dedicated Memory: 2010 MB
Shared Memory: 8136 MB

Processors are Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz x8

I'm running antiviruses now.

I've tried setting my performance settings to maximum performance only, because this is a gaming laptop, which means unless I'm charging it I get absolutely nothing in the name of saving power. So I just have it plugged in all the time now. Bad for my battery? Probably. I don't really care about that particularly, I can buy a new one, and I'll hopefully be making my gaming PC within a year anyways, this is just to make sure in the meantime by performance is bearable.

I've been looking into getting an SSD, which I think might help. Again, I'm going into this completely blind, so if anyone can point out anything I can do to make my laptop run better or anything else I can provide to help anyone looking to give advice it would be much appreciated.

 

[overboost07]

Have you monitored your temps? Install HWMonitor and keep an eye on your temps while playing, if your laptop is thermal throttling then that could be your performance loss.