Pro Tools with my iMac

Hey,
I'm having some worrying troubles with my iMac. I'm running the audio program Pro Tools with it but the iMac is seriously underpeforming. It is claiming to have not enough CPU power for playback with little to no real time plug-ins being used, even if I have the hardware buffer size set to maximum. This is a problem that has been gradually getting worse and more obvious over the last few months. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know! Need my studio back!!
Thom

Thanks Miriam,
That's not really the problem though. As I said in my first message this is a problem that has been getting worse. when I first bought my iMac Pro Tools ran fine on it, with the ability to run many real time plug-ins simultaneously, and now it sometimes struggles to playback a single track with either one or no plug-ins. As I said my iMac is seriously underperforming. Would anyone suggest re-installing my OS to try to get back to the computers original level of processing power?
Thom

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