Recent content by Welly177

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    Sudden Performance Drop on laptop!

    The scan lasted fewer than 10 seconds, to boot.
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    Sudden Performance Drop on laptop!

    Tech support put some command in the CMD, and it claimed I had over 50 viruses. So far, no program has even shown one. Was that legit, or could that have been a scan? They WERE trying to sell me 99 dollars worth of "protection". Freakin Lenovo!
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    Sudden Performance Drop on laptop!

    ummmm.... no.... Task manager is reporting unusually high activity from my antivirus and system. Not killing those. I'm uninstalling the antivirus right away, to see what the trouble is.
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    Sudden Performance Drop on laptop!

    It's plugged in on "high performance mode". That's how I tested it. I tested the new game Toxikk, which formerly ran at 60fps+. Now it runs closer to 25.
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    Sudden Performance Drop on laptop!

    The issue began about 2 days ago. There was a major update today, probably for the release of widows 10. Some tech support say it's a virus, but I've not downloaded anything suspicious, nor do I connect to any major networks. I have a simple home network with limited range.. So we can rule that...
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    Sudden Performance Drop on laptop!

    My PC is struggling. I have a Lenovo y50-70 touch laptop. Specs: Quad core, Intel i7 CPU @2.5-3.5 gighz Nvidia GTX 860m 2gig 8 gigs DDR3 ram (single) I was able to get really good framerates in most games. Now, I am noticing extremely lower framerates in all of my games, at the exact same...