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performance drop across all games

Domantas_3

Commendable
Jan 1, 2017
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Last night i was playing some smite at 50-60 fps then i had a lag spike and it stayed at 5-10fps, my laptop is usally hot but i put my hand under it and it wasnt even warm, is it possible i couldve burnt something? now all my games are 10-30fps when they used to be 60
 


Im on Windows 7, Dell laptop, cant find the model, its scratched off