Problems with FPS on Macbook Pro Retina while playing WoW

Hi,
So, just a few days ago, I could play World of Warcraft on a highly populated server with around 30 FPS at all times on ultra graphics. All of a sudden, when I logged in last night, I got between 5-8 FPS if I was lucky, and had to turn my graphics down to fair or even low to get around the same FPS or better as before. Do you guys think this could be software or hardware? I don't really care about not playing the game with full graphics, but is instead worried if there could be something wrong with the machine itself.
Cheers
Running 10.8. Higher MBP Retina model with 512 GB flash standard and 16GB of added RAM.

There are several threads on this on Blizzard website. You need to do an SMC reset (this worked for me): http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

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