Ive been playing minecraft for 4 years and I've been playing on vanilla this whole time. I just installed forge and I am looking for some good mods. Leave download links, name of mod, and a brief description of the mod in your post.
Just make sure it doesn't murder my computer brutally, so heres the specs(below).
Computer Specs:
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
Internal HDD 500GB Hardrive with 203.4 GB of space available
Ive been playing minecraft for 4 years and I've been playing on vanilla this whole time. I just installed forge and I am looking for some good mods. Leave download links, name of mod, and a brief description of the mod in your post.
Just make sure it doesn't murder my computer brutally, so heres the specs(below).
Computer Specs:
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
Internal HDD 500GB Hardrive with 203.4 GB of space available
External HDD 2TB Harddrive with 1.9TB Available
Running Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.4
Secondly, bad choice to use an apple product for gaming.
But if you want to know how well you can run mods let me do a break down of your specs
-12gb ram, that is more than enough, but some of your other parts are practically bottle necking your mac.
-670M is decent for gaming, not the best out there, but it does its job. Keep in mind that Minecraft is a resource hungry game.
-with the available space you have on your internal drive, you should be good, but don't go wasting all of that data on mods, it will surely start to slow down your pc.
-To be honest, an external hardrive isn't really a good idea to be playing a game off of. It will run slower because it is run through USB 2.0 or 3.0 which are both significantly slower than running it off an internal drive.
-the Mac OSx is your biggest bottleneck. Although by itself it isnt really harmful, but with all its quirks it really brings down how well you can run it. Most games including minecraft aren't meant for mac os. You can still play pretty decently on one though, just stay away from resource monsters like shaders or large modpacks like tekkit and such.
-To be honest, an external hardrive isn't really a good idea to be playing a game off of. It will run slower because it is run through USB 2.0 or 3.0
I am switching my external to a thunderbolt ssd soon, once I get my new camera I'll NEED a new hard drive so I'll be getting an upgrade within the next few months. Also I rarely get serious lag on minecraft, the lowest fps minecraft has ever ran on is 42 fps, and I set off 30 tnt then.
I am switching my external to a thunderbolt ssd soon, once I get my new camera I'll NEED a new hard drive so I'll be getting an upgrade within the next few months. Also I rarely get serious lag on minecraft, the lowest fps minecraft has ever ran on is 42 fps, and I set off 30 tnt then.
Having a few lite mods shouldn't effect your framerate much, but with my 50ish mods I get around 20fps. Vanilla I get around 150 fps, with optifine I get 200.
I am switching my external to a thunderbolt ssd soon, once I get my new camera I'll NEED a new hard drive so I'll be getting an upgrade within the next few months. Also I rarely get serious lag on minecraft, the lowest fps minecraft has ever ran on is 42 fps, and I set off 30 tnt then.
just because you switch to a thunderbolt, doesn't mean it will help the lag, there is a marginal difference between normal consumer grade drives, and the normaly mac exclusive thurderbolt
Thunderbolt offers a 10Gbps transfer rate, compared with SuperSpeed USB's 5Gbps. Thunderbolt is 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0. Thunderbolt can transfer a full-length, high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds."- google
Ok, I thought write speed would do something speed
Thunderbolt offers a 10Gbps transfer rate, compared with SuperSpeed USB's 5Gbps. Thunderbolt is 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0. Thunderbolt can transfer a full-length, high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds."- google
Ok, I thought write speed would do something speed
Thunderbolt offers a 10Gbps transfer rate, compared with SuperSpeed USB's 5Gbps. Thunderbolt is 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0. Thunderbolt can transfer a full-length, high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds."- google
Ok, I thought write speed would do something speed
and if i get a new mac it pushes it up to 20gp/s, That wouldn't change performance?
Thunderbolt offers a 10Gbps transfer rate, compared with SuperSpeed USB's 5Gbps. Thunderbolt is 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0. Thunderbolt can transfer a full-length, high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds."- google
Ok, I thought write speed would do something speed
this is implying theoretical speeds. The thunderbolt is really good for one big push of data streaming, not stop and go reading and writing that gaming does. Also its also the way Mac OS is built, it doesn't handle graphical mods that well (shaders and the like). But your specs will get you by with possibly with 10 good size mods (when i mean good size i meant what the contents of the mod, not data) and a bunch of smaller mods. Above all try some mods and and see if they work.
Secondly, bad choice to use an apple product for gaming.
But if you want to know how well you can run mods let me do a break down of your specs
-12gb ram, that is more than enough, but some of your other parts are practically bottle necking your mac.
-670M is decent for gaming, not the best out there, but it does its job. Keep in mind that Minecraft is a resource hungry game.
-with the available space you have on your internal drive, you should be good, but don't go wasting all of that data on mods, it will surely start to slow down your pc.
-To be honest, an external hardrive isn't really a good idea to be playing a game off of. It will run slower because it is run through USB 2.0 or 3.0 which are both significantly slower than running it off an internal drive.
-the Mac OSx is your biggest bottleneck. Although by itself it isnt really harmful, but with all its quirks it really brings down how well you can run it. Most games including minecraft aren't meant for mac os. You can still play pretty decently on one though, just stay away from resource monsters like shaders or large modpacks like tekkit and such.
2. Minecraft is resource-hungry in terms of CPU, not GPU. The game can run just fine on a low-end Intel GPU which is worlds worse than a 670M. My 840M is pulling 60+ frames with 230-250+ mods. A 670M should be adequate so long as shaders aren't used, although the card is not to blame here.
5. Minecraft is meant for OSX, it's a multi-platform game built on the JVM so theoretically if a device has the technological and hardware capabilities to run the JVM and in extension the game, it will run, regardless of the OS. Depending on the exact Mac you get, you can get a pretty powerful system. The problem is Apple has shoddy OpenGL support in their drivers, and while it doesn't affect Minecraft currently (although it may in future if Mojang moves the game to more recent OpenGL versions), it will severely hinder you in terms of shader support. Although a 670M is to my knowledge more than adequate, OSX and Apple's drivers will render the majority of shader packs broken. SEUS and all SEUS variants / versions are out, the majority of mid and high end packs are out, and that leaves only the lower end packs. FTB, Resonant Rise and other heavy mod packs may run, but that depends on your system.
That and the reason why people tell you to stay away from Apple's computers is because of how locked down they are. iMacs are basically sealed desktops, opening them up to upgrade what is upgradable renders the case broken and non-repairable, and it voids your warranty so Apple support won't help you. Macbooks are a glorious waste of money nowadays considering you can buy a laptop that is orders of magnitude a better deal considering price-to-performance for the same price of a high-end Macbook. $3300AU or so and you can get the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro G, a high-end laptop with a GTX 980M connected to a G-Sync enabled monitor, with a Core i5 5950HQ and 16GB DDR3 RAM. That's an insanely high-end laptop, mind you the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro G also supports an upgrade "path" known as MXM where you can upgrade the graphics card to any card that supports the MXM upgrade system. That means an old MSI MXM-compatible laptop sporting a GTX 880M can be upgraded to a 980M, or even the new GTX 1000M series coming soon. Or, for a more suitable comparison, you can get an MSI GE62 Apache for $1799AU, a similar price to that of Macbooks in Australia, and get a laptop sporting a GTX 960M, i7 4720HQ and 8GB DDR3 RAM. Compared to a recent Macbook Pro for the same price, which has an Intel HD 5300 GPU (an integrated GPU which can barely run games on low), an Intel Core M CPU (website didn't go into detail on what exact CPU) and 8GB DDR3 RAM. The GE62 Apache crushes the Macbook many times over like an ant. And they're the same price. That's why Macs are a bad choice for gaming.
But, Macs aren't designed solely for gaming, the MSI laptop(s) are.
I was about to post against that guy, what he said seemed to be very biased against OP's computer. I hate apple as much as the next guy, but OP's computer should be very capable of using mods. Besides, this discussion isn't about that. The original poster just wants some mods to play with.
I was about to post against that guy, what he said seemed to be very biased against OP's computer. I hate apple as much as the next guy, but OP's computer should be very capable of using mods. Besides, this discussion isn't about that. The original poster just wants some mods to play with.
Just so we're clear I'm not targeting the OPs computer, I'm just correcting some misinformation. As I said, the 670M is more than capable of playing Minecraft and OSX is fine for Minecraft so long as you don't attempt to use shaders.
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Ive been playing minecraft for 4 years and I've been playing on vanilla this whole time. I just installed forge and I am looking for some good mods. Leave download links, name of mod, and a brief description of the mod in your post.
Just make sure it doesn't murder my computer brutally, so heres the specs(below).
Computer Specs:
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
Internal HDD 500GB Hardrive with 203.4 GB of space available
External HDD 2TB Harddrive with 1.9TB Available
Running Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.4
1. Wrong section
2. Try this.
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
Secondly, bad choice to use an apple product for gaming.
But if you want to know how well you can run mods let me do a break down of your specs
-12gb ram, that is more than enough, but some of your other parts are practically bottle necking your mac.
-670M is decent for gaming, not the best out there, but it does its job. Keep in mind that Minecraft is a resource hungry game.
-with the available space you have on your internal drive, you should be good, but don't go wasting all of that data on mods, it will surely start to slow down your pc.
-To be honest, an external hardrive isn't really a good idea to be playing a game off of. It will run slower because it is run through USB 2.0 or 3.0 which are both significantly slower than running it off an internal drive.
-the Mac OSx is your biggest bottleneck. Although by itself it isnt really harmful, but with all its quirks it really brings down how well you can run it. Most games including minecraft aren't meant for mac os. You can still play pretty decently on one though, just stay away from resource monsters like shaders or large modpacks like tekkit and such.
I am switching my external to a thunderbolt ssd soon, once I get my new camera I'll NEED a new hard drive so I'll be getting an upgrade within the next few months. Also I rarely get serious lag on minecraft, the lowest fps minecraft has ever ran on is 42 fps, and I set off 30 tnt then.
Having a few lite mods shouldn't effect your framerate much, but with my 50ish mods I get around 20fps. Vanilla I get around 150 fps, with optifine I get 200.
just because you switch to a thunderbolt, doesn't mean it will help the lag, there is a marginal difference between normal consumer grade drives, and the normaly mac exclusive thurderbolt
Ok, I thought write speed would do something speed
and if i get a new mac it pushes it up to 20gp/s, That wouldn't change performance?
this is implying theoretical speeds. The thunderbolt is really good for one big push of data streaming, not stop and go reading and writing that gaming does. Also its also the way Mac OS is built, it doesn't handle graphical mods that well (shaders and the like). But your specs will get you by with possibly with 10 good size mods (when i mean good size i meant what the contents of the mod, not data) and a bunch of smaller mods. Above all try some mods and and see if they work.
2. Minecraft is resource-hungry in terms of CPU, not GPU. The game can run just fine on a low-end Intel GPU which is worlds worse than a 670M. My 840M is pulling 60+ frames with 230-250+ mods. A 670M should be adequate so long as shaders aren't used, although the card is not to blame here.
5. Minecraft is meant for OSX, it's a multi-platform game built on the JVM so theoretically if a device has the technological and hardware capabilities to run the JVM and in extension the game, it will run, regardless of the OS. Depending on the exact Mac you get, you can get a pretty powerful system. The problem is Apple has shoddy OpenGL support in their drivers, and while it doesn't affect Minecraft currently (although it may in future if Mojang moves the game to more recent OpenGL versions), it will severely hinder you in terms of shader support. Although a 670M is to my knowledge more than adequate, OSX and Apple's drivers will render the majority of shader packs broken. SEUS and all SEUS variants / versions are out, the majority of mid and high end packs are out, and that leaves only the lower end packs. FTB, Resonant Rise and other heavy mod packs may run, but that depends on your system.
That and the reason why people tell you to stay away from Apple's computers is because of how locked down they are. iMacs are basically sealed desktops, opening them up to upgrade what is upgradable renders the case broken and non-repairable, and it voids your warranty so Apple support won't help you. Macbooks are a glorious waste of money nowadays considering you can buy a laptop that is orders of magnitude a better deal considering price-to-performance for the same price of a high-end Macbook. $3300AU or so and you can get the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro G, a high-end laptop with a GTX 980M connected to a G-Sync enabled monitor, with a Core i5 5950HQ and 16GB DDR3 RAM. That's an insanely high-end laptop, mind you the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro G also supports an upgrade "path" known as MXM where you can upgrade the graphics card to any card that supports the MXM upgrade system. That means an old MSI MXM-compatible laptop sporting a GTX 880M can be upgraded to a 980M, or even the new GTX 1000M series coming soon. Or, for a more suitable comparison, you can get an MSI GE62 Apache for $1799AU, a similar price to that of Macbooks in Australia, and get a laptop sporting a GTX 960M, i7 4720HQ and 8GB DDR3 RAM. Compared to a recent Macbook Pro for the same price, which has an Intel HD 5300 GPU (an integrated GPU which can barely run games on low), an Intel Core M CPU (website didn't go into detail on what exact CPU) and 8GB DDR3 RAM. The GE62 Apache crushes the Macbook many times over like an ant. And they're the same price. That's why Macs are a bad choice for gaming.
But, Macs aren't designed solely for gaming, the MSI laptop(s) are.
MSI GE62 Apache[/header]Author of the Clarity, Serenity, Sapphire & Halcyon shader packs for Minecraft: Java Edition.
My Github page.
The entire Minecraft shader development community now has its own Discord server! Feel free to join and chat with all the developers!
dis rant... understandable but dis rant...
Well at first I only typed out the points with the numbers next to them, but then added the rest. Better get used to it, it's how I respond to people.
And it isn't aimed directly at you, point 5. I was correcting you, but it's mainly thread-wide.
Author of the Clarity, Serenity, Sapphire & Halcyon shader packs for Minecraft: Java Edition.
My Github page.
The entire Minecraft shader development community now has its own Discord server! Feel free to join and chat with all the developers!
oh i know it wasn't aimed at me but i just had to comment on it... for the last time it seems if you post something like this regularly
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I was about to post against that guy, what he said seemed to be very biased against OP's computer. I hate apple as much as the next guy, but OP's computer should be very capable of using mods. Besides, this discussion isn't about that. The original poster just wants some mods to play with.
Just so we're clear I'm not targeting the OPs computer, I'm just correcting some misinformation. As I said, the 670M is more than capable of playing Minecraft and OSX is fine for Minecraft so long as you don't attempt to use shaders.
Author of the Clarity, Serenity, Sapphire & Halcyon shader packs for Minecraft: Java Edition.
My Github page.
The entire Minecraft shader development community now has its own Discord server! Feel free to join and chat with all the developers!