Hey all, I recently got a macbook pro 15inch with the i7 processor, and its been fine up until last night. I use my mac for college work and games, mainly World of Warcraft.
Last night my framerate in WoW became horrible, at first I thought it was the internet but now I realize it is not. I ran a virus scanner (since I downloaded an album right before this happened) but that has shown nothing. After tinkering with my mac I noticed that no games ran good anymore, they all ran as if I was playing on a 6 year old laptop. I opened my Activity Monitor, and its showing startling numbers for the CPU usage of my processes. WoW runs anywhere from 50 to over 100 percent CPU (Not sure how but it shows these numbers), as well as other games running very high too, Firefox runs at around 20-30 usually, and when im watching videos it goes to saying 90 percent to over 100 (again, not sure how this is possible). Where as before this happened I could minimize WoW or any other games and use my mac fine, if I try that now it runs beyond sluggish.
What is going on here? Im rather displeased to say the least, with paying all this money for a mac for its "reliability". I tried resetting the ram, running virus scans, and repairing disk permissions in the Disk Utility tool. What would be my best course of action here? I need this fixed ASAP since I go back to school in early January.
Just for reference, heres a screenshot of the Activity Monitor. I notice that it says a large percent is idle, while at the same time showing these ridiculous numbers for my programs....
Last night my framerate in WoW became horrible, at first I thought it was the internet but now I realize it is not. I ran a virus scanner (since I downloaded an album right before this happened) but that has shown nothing. After tinkering with my mac I noticed that no games ran good anymore, they all ran as if I was playing on a 6 year old laptop. I opened my Activity Monitor, and its showing startling numbers for the CPU usage of my processes. WoW runs anywhere from 50 to over 100 percent CPU (Not sure how but it shows these numbers), as well as other games running very high too, Firefox runs at around 20-30 usually, and when im watching videos it goes to saying 90 percent to over 100 (again, not sure how this is possible). Where as before this happened I could minimize WoW or any other games and use my mac fine, if I try that now it runs beyond sluggish.
What is going on here? Im rather displeased to say the least, with paying all this money for a mac for its "reliability". I tried resetting the ram, running virus scans, and repairing disk permissions in the Disk Utility tool. What would be my best course of action here? I need this fixed ASAP since I go back to school in early January.
Just for reference, heres a screenshot of the Activity Monitor. I notice that it says a large percent is idle, while at the same time showing these ridiculous numbers for my programs....
