So, lately I've been having a strange problem. Basically an FPS "bomb" occurs every 30 mins or so. The framerates "even in Elwynn with lowest settings" drop to 5 or less FPS for about 5 seconds, and then for a split second it goes normal, and then the framerates instantly go back down to 5 or less FPS. This just keeps repeating over and over for about a minute. It's really frustrating, because for the duration of these FPS bombs I can't do anything, really.

My computer has SMC fan control and I've already cleared the temp files.

System Specs are--------------

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Video Card is--------------

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Hello Aillin,


I'm with Kalisti on this one, 30 mins is too well organized or too structured not to be something either trying to update or turning on. You don't have Safari running do you ? Better yet is there anything at all running in the background whatsoever, perhaps an IM program or Ventrillo or Skype ?

Does this happen if you have the game in window mode ? (command + m)

And if you can play in window mode can you also open Activity Monitor.app and perhaps check out to see anything listed at the top where CPU% in concerned.