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There are guides on how to disassemble almost any model of laptop out there, often on YouTube. Without it being in my hands, my advice is to completely dissemble it and clean everything and reapply a thermal compound under all the heatsink areas probably 2(cpu and onboard video if not on chip.)...

Some things, like batteries going bad, can't be changed but, use the computer until it turns off from a dead batt, do this 1 or 2 more times. Then charge it to 100% and monitor it again and see if improves. Nothing can stop a batt from death but this could help for a bit.

No, not stellar specs but it can achieve some play-ability. After you get the overheating issue taken care of. Go into bios and see if you can dedicate more memory to your video. That will help.

Make double sure the fans are working.

Take it apart, make sure ALL the fans and heat dissipation devices(fins, etc) are 100% cleaned properly and then checked to make sure they work correctly. You can download a temp monitoring program for free (google it) which can tell you the cpu temp. If you have exhausted all the other tips on...