Performance issues / Task Manager question

[phacemeltar]

turn off shadows and turn LOD bias to minimum. i was lagging like crazy on a far worse machine than yours, and after i made these changes my game is real fast.

if you type the process name into google, theres a multitude of websites which will tell you what most of your processes are in detail and will assess the threat level. youre gona have to be more specific if you want to know what you can shut down.