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I have an computer which is 9 years old now.

The specs are:-

Intel pentium CPU 2.90 Ghz

Ram - 2gb

Windows 7 64 bit Os

Intel hd graphics with 772 mb available memory.

This computer can kind of run gta 4 on 30 fps with low settings.

For running minecraft you have to remove all visual effects by using performance options in advanced system settings.

Then you have to open task manager and close explorer.exe

Then click file on task manager and then New Task

Browse your minecraft launcher and select your version.

NOTE- USE OPTIFINE

after opening your game (its gonna take a while for starting up)

Go to options and then video settings

Change graphics to fast

Smooth lighting minimum

Smooth lighting lvl 100 (if you want to)

Dynamics lights :Fast

Render distance to 8

Then go to details

Clouds off

Trees fast

Sky off

Sun&Moon On

Fog off

Translucent block fast

Dropped item fast

Vignette fast

Swamp colour off(if you want to i hate the colour)

Stars off

Entity shadow off

Now go back and go to animations

Just change particles to minimal(if you want to i play with all on this pc)

Now go to quality tab

Emissive texture off

Better grass off (i hate when its on)

Connected textures on

Better snow off

Now to performance tab

Smooth fps on

Fast render on

Chunk update 1

Render region on

Smart animation on

Smooth world on

Fast math on

Dynamic updates on

Lazy chunk loading on

Now i play on 1280x720 resolution and i get to 125 fps

In front of blowing tnt i get 85 fps

And in front of 3 zero tick farms i get 60 fps

I used to have far worse computer dating from around 2006 (I got it in 2010, it used to be my dad's computer and originally had Windows XP before I got it); the only games I ran on it besides Minecraft were browser games so i can't say how well games like GTA would perform:

However, I didn't have much issues running 1.5-1.6, included modded, as long as I didn't go above Normal render distance or set leaves to Fast when in my mod's Mega Forest biomes (due to limited dedicated VRAM), with Optifine mainly improving chunk loading (which had some issues in vanilla back then) and improving the quality (more settings, clear water, better fog, no void fog) rather than improving general performance:

In fact, my computer was mostly above the recommended system requirements for 1.6, only memory was below but I never had any issues with around 2 GB out of 3 GB being used while playing, partly because I allocated less memory (I only allocate 512 MB which is more than enough, aside from when I played with a mod which tripled the ground depth, then I increased it to 768 MB. With 1 GB I've gotten a "Minecraft has run out of memory" error screen, which is not due to a Java memory issue but rather a 32 bit process space issue):

Recommended Requirements:
CPU : Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 (K8) 2.6 GHz
RAM : 4GB
GPU : GeForce 6xxx or ATI Radeon 9xxx and up with OpenGL 2 Support (Excluding Integrated Chipsets)
HDD : 150MB

https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173020/http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/325948-minecraft-system-requirements

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Pentium-D-805-vs-AMD-Athlon-64-4000 -vs-AMD-Athlon-64-X2-Dual-Core-4200 /1125vs73vs79 (even at only 2.2 GHz an Athlon 64 X2 4200 had more than twice the performance of either of the recommended CPUs, as well as a higher single-thread rating)

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-7600-GS-vs-GeForce-6800-Ultra/9vs1214 (the system requirements simply state "6xxx series" while I chose the highest end model from that line, which is still worse than a GPU aimed to the low-mid end, though it had more VRAM)

Needless to say, performance on anything newer, especially 1.8+, was terrible and this is part of the reason why I never updated past 1.6.4:

This is also why I place so much emphasis on performance improvements in TMCW, which is designed to run on these specs even if the majority of people no longer use computers that weak or old, and even outperforming vanilla despite adding so many new features (which is why I do not buy claims that newer versions are more resource intensive due to more content; a lot of this is due to terrible coding practices, at least for a real-time Java application).

I've played fine on a Mac mini with a 1 gHz G4 PPC, No graphics card and only 1 gB RAM. Last I played on that was 1.11.2 version.

I've played minecraft for the last decade over 10 different pcs ranging from worse than yours. i think it will get the job done however wont be the best.