Sudden jitter and fps drops in all 3D games

Hello! So I'm running Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro (13 inch, mid-2012 model) with Intel HD 4000 graphics.
Lately, I been experiencing sudden jittering in my games, particularly 3D-games-strangely, games like Bastion run just fine. The fps keeps going up and then quickly back down, ranging from 20 to all the way down to 12 or so. This is peculiar, because not long ago I was able to run games like Aion in medium to high settings, The Sims 3 in high settings, and Skyrim in low settings no problem, with no jitteriness whatsoever. The games seem to run smooth for about one minute before the fps drop occurs, with all affected games following the same pattern of fps drops-it goes from normal speed to a fast jitter, then normal speed again and repeats the cycle. It does not return to its normal fps, just keeps jumping back and forth. I have noticed that when this happens, the laptop heats up considerably and the fans spin a lot faster-this did not happen before with any of my games, so I do wonder if the best and only solution is to open up the macbook and see if the problem is internal or if there is anything else I can do. I've tried resetting the SMC to no avail-nothing seems to work. I've even re-installed Windows 7 and all of my games-nothing is working. At first I thought the problem was only exclusive to Skyrim until I opened up Aion (which I played a few days ago with no issues) and was greeted with the same drastic jumps of fps. If anyone can help me out with this and maybe offer a few suggestions, I'd love to hear them, because I'm stumped.

Spoke too soon-the problem is back again. It played nicely for about half an hour this time before it started lagging once more, both in Skyrim and Aion. Bastion is still fine, however.

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