- This game is demanding on your video card, most of you don't seem to understand that the video card is making -alot- of draw calls, you may see the blocks and think, oh they're low rez they're easy to render, right? Not entirely true, minecraft needs ALOT of draw calls to handle the triangles for each block. In simple terms, its easier to draw something pretty in crysis then it is to draw 5k visible blocks on max settings standing atop a mountain.
I know that. But Minecraft draws one quad for each block. It could still be a LOT more efficient, by combining strips of the same type of block into one quad.
- This game is demanding on your video card, most of you don't seem to understand that the video card is making -alot- of draw calls, you may see the blocks and think, oh they're low rez they're easy to render, right? Not entirely true, minecraft needs ALOT of draw calls to handle the triangles for each block. In simple terms, its easier to draw something pretty in crysis then it is to draw 5k visible blocks on max settings standing atop a mountain.
I know that. But Minecraft draws one quad for each block. It could still be a LOT more efficient, by combining strips of the same type of block into one quad.
Hahah, it could, i honestly have never once thought the code for the visuals is anywhere near optimized, i was just pointing out that even if it was as optimized as humanly possible it'l always require a video card designed for a fairly modern game, unless you want terribad framerates or minimum draw distance. I read alot of comparisons to doom in this game, which is silly, doom could run off your watch these days.
I know that. But Minecraft draws one quad for each block. It could still be a LOT more efficient, by combining strips of the same type of block into one quad.
Hahah, it could, i honestly have never once thought the code for the visuals is anywhere near optimized, i was just pointing out that even if it was as optimized as humanly possible it'l always require a video card designed for a fairly modern game, unless you want terribad framerates or minimum draw distance. I read alot of comparisons to doom in this game, which is silly, doom could run off your watch these days.
heheh... doom... freakin nostalgic running it off of a 5 gb harddrive and 345 mb ram XD
i didnt even use a video card. most computers have a basic built in
watches though? what an understatement. now it's to the point of being runnable on our toothpicks (jk :tongue.gif:)
now excuse me when i follow what little blood of the welsh flowing through my veins
One other thing I didn't see mentioned on here: Your hard drive access speed may be a factor. Minecraft stores its worlds in so-called chunks as you probably know, and each chunk is its own file on the hard drive. If you're moving large distances a lot (especially if you're exploring new areas!), this puts a bunch of requests to your hard drive. If you're exploring new places, it not only has to access the hard drive to store the chunks you're too far from, but it also has to use the CPU to generate more chunks on the fly (and save those, adding even more HD load).
If you're serious about upgrading your computer for good Minecraft performance, the biggest things to look for in a hard drive are going to be:
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[*]Low seek time
[*]Low average latency
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...Or if you want to spend even more money, solid state drives are extremely fast.
[b]DISCLAIMER: I'm referring only to Singleplayer without mods. Multiplayer's a horse of a different color, and I honestly don't know a thingaling about mods.[/b]
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Sanity is a carrot. You find it green and easy to find, but the deeper you go, it turns funny colors and narrows down to nothing.
Speaking of optimization, I think the main problem is there is no culling. I bet you're all seen the invisible ground caused by slow loading that may occur in multiplayer. You can see every single cave system underground while the ground is see-through. I bet the game is rendering everything at once all the time. If they can figure out how to fix this, it should greatly improve framerates on the low-end PCs
I know that. But Minecraft draws one quad for each block. It could still be a LOT more efficient, by combining strips of the same type of block into one quad.
Hahah, it could, i honestly have never once thought the code for the visuals is anywhere near optimized, i was just pointing out that even if it was as optimized as humanly possible it'l always require a video card designed for a fairly modern game, unless you want terribad framerates or minimum draw distance. I read alot of comparisons to doom in this game, which is silly, doom could run off your watch these days.
heheh... doom... freakin nostalgic running it off of a 5 gb harddrive and 345 mb ram XD
i didnt even use a video card. most computers have a basic built in
watches though? what an understatement. now it's to the point of being runnable on our toothpicks (jk :tongue.gif:)
now excuse me when i follow what little blood of the welsh flowing through my veins
If you're serious about upgrading your computer for good Minecraft performance, the biggest things to look for in a hard drive are going to be:
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[*]Low seek time
[*]Low average latency
[/list]
...Or if you want to spend even more money, solid state drives are extremely fast.
[b]DISCLAIMER: I'm referring only to Singleplayer without mods. Multiplayer's a horse of a different color, and I honestly don't know a thingaling about mods.[/b]
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