[HELP] Computer slows while playing games

[JasonSnider]

My computer runs just fine, until I've been playing a game for about five minutes. Then, it slows WAY down and the only way to speed it back up is to reboot. It is an old 1.6 GHz Pentium M with 512 MB ram running Windows Xp, and I can't upgrade. I am only trying to play older games, like "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and "Angry Birds."

 

[JasonSnider]

The games play just fine at first though. And the system meets or exceeds the requirements of every game I play on it. If it was just low RAM and slow processor, wouldn't they start out slow?

 

[JasonSnider]

This thread hasn't been here long, but thanks to a link to another thread with a similar question I now have my solution. Thanks to ShadowR34per for his quick response; he may have been wrong, but he was still trying.

The solution is simple: to much heat. In an answer in that other tread, someone suggested a heat problem and supplied a link to download "CPUID HWMonitor" program. This program allowed me to see how hot my processor was getting. Adding a fan (external, as my computer is a laptop) has solved the problem. Unfortunately, I can't remember who made the post that helped me, nor can I find the tread again. Whoever you are, thank you. You may not have answered me directly, or helped the person you did answer, but you helped me.

I have been unable to mark this thread solved. Sorry.