Games slow after disk repair

So my Macbook froze while playing Dragon Age Origins and i had to force shutdown. When i tried to reboot, it froze at the apple logo and then went to either a black screen or a grey screen. I then put in the install dvd and used the disk utility to repair it and it's booting properly now. However when I try playing Dragon Age or Starcraft 2 they are unplayably slow. I've tried resetting the SMC, the PRAM, and repairing the disk permissions to no avail.

Phanman08 wrote:
So my Macbook froze while playing Dragon Age Origins and i had to force shutdown. When i tried to reboot, it froze at the apple logo and then went to either a black screen or a grey screen. I then put in the install dvd and used the disk utility to repair it and it's booting properly now. However when I try playing Dragon Age or Starcraft 2 they are unplayably slow. I've tried resetting the SMC, the PRAM, and repairing the disk permissions to no avail.
Did Disk Utility have to repair anything? Or did it say everything is OK?
If it repaired something, then it may have had to delete a key sector of information on your drive, which prevents these games from playing. That could be a problem. You also may have a failing drive, but you will know when that happens as time goes on.
I would suggest reinstalling the games. Do not reinstall OSX, because that isn't going to fix your problems.

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