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my laptop slows way way down after playing either minecraft (and tekkit) and faster than light.i play other games (dark souls,guild wars 2,dead space as examples on almost high settings) that take more to run yet i dont get slowed down. after a reboot its fine and back to normal.

laptop im using is a dell precsion m6500

it's possible that minecraft maybe useing all of your laptop's RAM and it's having to use the virtual memory to increase the amount of memory that it has to work with.i know that my desktop PC slows down when it has to use it's virtual memory (i have 256MB of SDRAM). this even effects the most basic functions of my PC. could you post a few more specs of your laptop so that we can get a sense of what your working with?

windows 7 64
i7 quad
4gb ram
ati firepro

The games you are having difficulties with may take up more VRAM (as opposed to GPU processing power) than the games you can run fine with. There may also be an issue with the drivers, make sure they are updated (or even try installing a previous driver). Also, a lot of the more open-world style games may use more system RAM and could be the source of your problems, although they should release it back upon game exit. Wouldn't hurt to try an optimizer program, such as Ashampoo's WinOptimizer, and see if doing a registry cleaner and basic system opimization may help a little. Another option is to use GameBooster (or do it manually) to shut down unneeded background tasks while your game is running. Might even want to switch to Windows Aero basic them and disable some visual effects to get the most resources for your game.

i use game booster from time to time last time.it did say my drivers are up to date but it could be wrong.also i never had this problem before i could play hour upon hours and my laptop would be fine i wonder why its doing it now


Edit:

did winop no difference drivers are up to date for the most part.could it be a hardware related?

could be hardware related, make sure to open her up and keep the fans real clean. You may even want to use a program like cpu-z to check your hardware and make sure the ram and cpu are running at the speeds they should be. Have you tried using a previous version of your GPU drivers?

i have not since the driver is pretty much up to date since i got this thing.i cleaned the fans the other day.ill try cpuz and see what i get

how much GB Ram are used in system ? if you used 3GB Ram then this type of issues not occurred .

Some time over use of laptop can make your laptop slow. So use it as laptop not as Desktop. By judging the condition from your laptop specification it will be to take load of any game.