DDO client spikes in cpu usage

[Orguam]

For some reason, after about 15-30 minutes of playing, the game begins to slow down considerably to the point of barely being playable. It goes from using like 20-30% of the cpu to using 50-60%.

http://i.imgur.com/hqB2g.png

The link is for stormreach, but its there mostly to show the specs of my laptop.

Any help would be much appreciated in solving this!

I also fully understand it could just be my laptop.


EDIT: So I figured out that by lowering the speed at which the games engine runs I lose all the aforementioned slowing down.

[Dulcimerist]

Did you get it 100% solved then?

Remember while gaming on a laptop to run it on performance mode (no power saving) while plugged into a wall outlet for power. Also make sure you aren't overheating - a cooling thing to set your laptop on is a good idea.

[donfilibuster]

Remember while gaming on a laptop to run it on performance mode (no power saving) while plugged into a wall outlet for power. Also make sure you aren't overheating - a cooling thing to set your laptop on is a good idea.

This, both things.

You may also want to alt-tab out, open the task manager and make the ddoclient process into high priority.
Doesn't make it faster but makes it less slow