Lastly scratch space if your app uses it. This is where you may need a system with more RAM (hopefully you have 16 GB) and/or increase your SSD storage so it have more space for Virtual RAM, Caching, and if needed Windows paging. But! The amount of RAM and storage (SSD) your system has access to can also affect it. While it sounds extreme, I know of two students who did some deep rendering on their 2018 MacBook Pro’s they ended up needing to shove their systems into a refrigerator to offer the needed cooling so the render wouldn’t fail as the charger and battery was unable to supply the needed power at room temp. I personally like this one TG Pro it offers some powerful options like turbo mode so as the system gets warm you can set a threshold to ramp up the fans. Next is monitoring your thermal load and ramping up the fan to help cool the system.

Use a can of can’ed air to carefully blow the dust away with short blasts. Time for a good dust out! Carefully remove your bottom cover and using a small soft paint brush lightly scrub your logic board to loosen the dust as well as the fans and heat sink fins.

Given your systems age it likely has a build up of dust and junk within the fan’s, fins and on the logic board its self.

So the first thing is to make sure your systems vents are not blocked so cooling air is able to work its way though the system.

To start with a laptop is not a desktop! So the size limitations translates into less cooling efficiency as you ramp up your systems processing and graphics. Even still you can get into trouble even with the very newest MacBook Pro’s!

The GPU your system has is a different series than what the older systems had.

Graphics card in macbook pro 2014