Full screen gaming

For some reason when I am playing games in fullscreen mode a random frame rate drop will occur. A typical scenario from world of warcraft is as follows.
I am in a zone of the game levelling where the graphics are not too demanding. I am getting a smooth 60 fps that I believe to be optimum for this game. I walk into a cave system that theoretically should be even less of a graphical strain due to the lack of detail displayed on screen. I clarified this by temporarily disabling v sync to check my frame rate which was in the 200s. I turn vsync on and complete the task in the cave. However when I leave the cave my frame rate drops to 30 for no good reason. Keep in mind here that I was previously experiencing a very comfortable 60 fps outside of the cave previously.
My first thought was that my laptop was hot, however the thing was the same temperature it is when using safari. Next I suspected that the graphics cards had switched given that I had gone in to a cave that could have used the intel 4000. However after repeating the scenario with the power saving option disabled the issue still persisted.
There are two ways I have found to prevent this from happening. The first is to disable vsync. While this indeed prevents the unexplainable frame rate drop, the problem is replaced by excessive screen tearing that is truly ugly. The second and more acceptable solution is to play the game in windowed mode at the largest possible expansion I can get it to. Logically I expected windowed(fullscreen) to solve the issue but sadly this changed nothing.
Lastly, I have also found some truly bizarre temporary fixes for this problem. When my frame rate drops, by simply going in and out of mission control the frame rate is restored to 60. Can some one please explain to me how that makes any sense at all! I mean that, if this issue can't be resolved at least explain why going in and out of an application somehow fixes this issue.
I would have posted this on blizzard's site but I believe this to be an issue with the os as a whole as I get problems such as this with left 4 dead and dungeon defenders as well.

Have you updated to 10.8.4 perhaps that will fix the issue.
You might want to also check and report to Blizzard about this issue as well, as they can reproduce the issue and see what is causing it, likely can tell Apple about it so they can fix it.
We can send a bug report, but it's going to lack a lot of details they require

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More details about my computer
Component
Details
Subscore
Base score
Processor
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz
7.8
5.9
Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM)
12.0 GB
7.8
Graphics
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
6.9
Gaming graphics
4607 MB Total available graphics memory
6.9
Primary hard disk
288GB Free (465GB Total)
5.9
Windows 7 Enterprise
System
Manufacturer
Dell Inc.
Model
Precision WorkStation T7500
Total amount of system memory
12.0 GB RAM
System type
64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores
12
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s)
465 GB
Disk partition (C:)
288 GB Free (465 GB Total)
Media drive (D:)
CD/DVD
Disk partition (F:)
0 B Free (39 MB Total)
Graphics
Display adapter type
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
Total available graphics memory
4607 MB
      Dedicated graphics memory
1024 MB
      Dedicated system memory
0 MB
      Shared system memory
3583 MB
Display adapter driver version
8.17.11.9790
Primary monitor resolution
1920x1200
Secondary monitor resolution
1920x1200
Secondary monitor resolution
1920x1080
DirectX version
DirectX 10
Network
Network Adapter
Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Server Adapter
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The gaming graphics score is based on the primary graphics adapter. If this system has linked or multiple graphics adapters, some software applications may see additional performance benefits.
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Turning off the services as you are suggesting seems a bit drastic just to get a plain DV clip without any FX to playback smoothly (e.g. CPU util is about 3% in these situations, network at about 5%, disk not doing anything).. it's the kind of thing I would have done about 10 years ago but modern machines are supposedly built around HD multimedia so it seems odd to still be expected to do this kind of thing now.
FYI, this was the thread that suggested turning off Aero to fix:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproperf/thread/d4f155d8-6ff6-4741-bb2d-8 ed184b7a45c
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Now I figure out what's the problem, I tried to remove Display Preferences & Monitors Preferences files. But nothing change.
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