G53JW-A1 Performance in World of Warcraft

Hello, I am playing Wrath of the Lich King with my G53JW-A1 and during 25man raids, my FPS dips down to 7.5 and it's not playable at all.
FPS is the same from low from medium to high at 1920x1080. I am not even on ultra, no AA are on, high performance mode in NVIDIA, using the battlefield 3 drivers.

(I play battlefield 3, it performs at 40-60fps at high-medium @ 1920x1080).

My old Dell XPS 15 with i5 460m and a GT425m performed better than that in WOW. (Had the full RGB LED 1920x1080 screen.)
Also had an HP envy 14 with the same specs as that and it also performed better than the g53jw.

Is something wrong with my drivers or what?

Using high performance mode already.
I have also tried overclocking to 800/1600 and it didn't do much.

I heard there is a TWINTURBO mode, but I don't have that?

Also upgraded the stock 750gb harddrive to an Intel x25-m g2 120gb SSD.

 

wow is more based on cpu then anything else, its a old game , using a old engine.

though had to play on my g51 the other day, as pc crashed on raggy 25 man.

though never noticed a dip to 7 fps, normally lowest 15 fps, then 25-30 fps when there is not much happening, check if turbo boost is on etc.

maybe do a clean install see if that works, though wow should play much better then 7 fps on your laptop.

 

Run HWINFO (sensors) and check your temps while playing.

 

Yup, Dallers is right, probably you're thermal throttling.
You coul run ThrottleStop and leave it open/turned on to help, but if your temps are quite high you'll face a thermal shutdown.
Better check your CPU temps after some hours, then report back.
Besides TS offers a CPU/gpu temp monitoring on the task bar, which reports highest and current temp.

 

In my sig are some settings that I found to work well when I was still playing. I haven't touched the game in a long time, so I'm not sure if some of the settings have been changed in recent patches, or if the DX11 setting has been built-in yet (when I was still playing, DX11 was toggled via a script). Also, I didn't raid on this machine, so the settings weren't "stress tested".

Also mentioned in the thread are add-ons. Have you recently started using any new add-ons? ...anything raid-oriented?

Last, although it won't help your FPS issue, if you aren't already using the "Leatrix Latency Fix", I highly recommend it. It's also linked in my sig.

 

I haven't used Throttlestop yet, but the temnps of my CPU after an hour of Battlefield 3 are:

72c, 71c, 73c, 79c (why is this one so high???)

Are they okay?

**EDIT**

Tried WOW again and the temps were:
80c, 81c, 82c, 85c