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Update 2: WIN 10 seems to have actually helped. Can confirm DPC/ISRs are no longer being problematic. Problem solved I guess. Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post!

"... the fps will drop heaps and if i tab out the game and try to tab back it.. the screen will go back then after 30 seconds then the game will pop up" This seems to be deferred procedure calls & interrupt Service routines. Basically, DCPs, ISRs happen because of a faulty driver. For me it was...

Update: Did what @popatim suggested. No luck. Out of frustration I updated to Win 10. When it threw me to the desktop, opened Task Manager, saw Intel Rapid Store service in the processes tab (couldn't in Win 7), eating up more than 20% CPU power. I uninstalled it... so hard. Checked Latency...

Specs for my system: Laptop - Dell Inspiron 15r SE 7520 CPU - Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 Ghz (3.01 w/ Turbo boost), 2 Cores, 4 Logical processors Ram - Gkill 8 gig single stick (aftermarket) OS - Win 7 Home Premium HDD - 1TB So, DCPs & ISRs are eating up close 15-30% of my CPU cores at any...