Why is my graphics card so slow all of a sudden? I bought a Gateway FX laptop two years ago. It has a dual core 2.2 GHz intel processor, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 1 GB GeForce 9800M GTS "CUDA" graphics card. I used to be able to play all my games with no problems but now I cant even run my games smoothly on the lowest settings. I have Norton 360 and Malbytes Anti-Malware installed and neither of them can find anything on my computer that slow it down and I'm not running any strenuous processes while playing my games either. What could be causing this?