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Hi guys, I just made an account here to seek advice. I've been playing minecraft for a few weeks now and I've just been trying to not let it bother me but tonight I though "no, not this time.. not. this time" and decided to seek your council.
My computer is running a 2.7 ghz AMD processor with 2gb of DDR2 memory.
Shouldn't this be enough to play minecraft seamlessly? Because if I have the minecraft settings to "Graphics: Fast" and "View distance: Normal" It still lags and just plays slow over all.
Is this normal? Should this not be enough to play this game?
Thanks in advance, Pesvardur

It takes a really nice computer to run it seamlessly. I don't know what kind of RAM it would take to run excellent, but I have 4 GB and I lag like hell.

Guessing this was made just before the recent bug fix; hopefully your problem is fixed.

make sure all your drivers are up to date, and make sure java is at 1.0.6_23

I run on 2.3ghz on a dual core and 3gb of ram memory and the game runs smoothly on max settings.

Sure there is a few stutters when the game starts and every so often when it changes time. I think you might need to bump up your ram and possibly look into getting a better video card.

well.. mine runs pretty smoothly, and only really slows down when i'm generating lots of new chunks (like flying my hoverboat around :biggrin.gif:). I'm running a 3.0 ghz AMD quadcore, with 4 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM. as far as the game is concerned, i've set it to have one core all to itself, and it uses about a GB of RAM. i'm running far and fancy graphics. also, i'm running 32x32 textures w/ xau HD texture patch. to the OP: i'd guess that your RAM is the weak point. you may want to add some more if you want MC to run smoother.

meh, I run on a single core pentium m at 1.73ghz, and 1GB of RAM, and I run fine with a few acceptable stutters on normal view distance and fast graphics. I don't know why the faster computers are having problems...

im willing to bet the big differences between everyones computers is the graphics card. its an opengl game and nobody seems to ever mention their "graphics" card...

smh

Walmart Special - Emachines W3622 Desktop Computer
2.0GHz
2GB of RAM
ATI Radeon HD2400 graphics card 500MHz 256MB RAM
Realtek HDSound (integrated)
Windows XP 32bit

I can't use the most up to date drivers. My system crashes when I use them. So I use the latest ones that are stable for me. That is for my ATI card.

I run MineCraft on Normal/Fancy and have slowdown rarely , if at all. Get anywhere from 15 to 60 fps depending on what is going on and what version of the game I am running.

The other computer
Emachines W3107
Windows xp 32bit
Nvidia Gforce 6100 integrated Graphics
1.6GHz processor
1GB RAM
Realtek AC97 Audio Integrated sound

Runs minecraft at Small/Fast well , most the time.

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Both are single core processors

i5 750 at 4.0 ghz
4 gigs of ddr3 1600mhz
Ati 5850 at max settings in ccc
Samsung spinpoint f3
Running fancy/far at 200+ fps, get lag when loading new chunks.
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i5 750 at 4.0 ghz
4 gigs of ddr3 1600mhz
Ati 5850 at max settings in ccc
Samsung spinpoint f3
Running fancy/far at 200+ fps, get lag when loading new chunks.
Feelsbadman.jpg

Where in the world did you get an i5 750 clocked at 4.0 ghz?

And yeah, for some reason people think the low res of Minecraft means you could run it without a video card basically, totally wrong.

i got no problem for me im running low on ram but really its smooth and great
heres my desktop(computer) specs
Processor: Intel(R) core (TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07 GHz
Installed memory (RAM) 2.00GB
System type:32-bit operating system
Running Win 7 and it was running Xp previously
My graphic card is Nvidia GTX 460
My desktop is disigned by myself i pick the parts and i fix it
Im running on 160 gb hard drive
Dont ask me about my graphix Ghz i forgotten and ram

Edit:i run the game minecraft on max setting
Fancy,far,bobbing on

Minecraft is CPU intensive. It could run like 10x better if Notch streamlined it but it would probally break with all the updates.

4gig ram, quad processor
runs like ****

Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4ghz
4GB of DDR2 RAM @ 1066mhz
Nvidia GTX 9800+ w/512MB ram (default clock is 738 mhz)
Nvidia 780i FTW mother board

My game never lags... and I'm running two monitors and multiple other applications at the same time while I play. I play on the highest settings btw. I think the issue I've seen when running it on my laptop (which doesn't run it nearly as well as the desktop I just detailed out) is the CPU usage. My laptop have 4GB of RAM in it also, but it's only running a dual core processor. Until the code has gotten into it's final stages and all be optimized people will be seeing lag everywhere. Especially since Java uses a just in time compiler, the code is compiled by the machine it's running on (hence why one Java app can run on multi OSes, the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is doing a lot of work to allow it to run everywhere.

tl;dr

Java is very CPU intensive, especially in a game that is in the testing phases, and thusly not optimized.

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Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4ghz
4GB of DDR2 RAM @ 1066mhz
Nvidia GTX 9800+ w/512MB ram (default clock is 738 mhz)
Nvidia 780i FTW mother board

My game never lags... and I'm running two monitors and multiple other applications at the same time while I play. I play on the highest settings btw. I think the issue I've seen when running it on my laptop (which doesn't run it nearly as well as the desktop I just detailed out) is the CPU usage. My laptop have 4GB of RAM in it also, but it's only running a dual core processor. Until the code has gotten into it's final stages and all be optimized people will be seeing lag everywhere. Especially since Java uses a just in time compiler, the code is compiled by the machine it's running on (hence why one Java app can run on multi OSes, the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is doing a lot of work to allow it to run everywhere.

tl;dr

Java is very CPU intensive, especially in a game that is in the testing phases, and thusly not optimized.

FYI Minecraft isn't multi-threaded, that means it doesn't use more then one core at once, the only reason you would get better performance is if your laptop CPU was clocked lower(the ghz) or if it was only single core in which case the background processes would have to share the core minecraft is using and therefore it would basically 'accidently' slow down the game.

Thanks for the great replies guys. I guess I'll just let myself have it for the time being.

I have 4GB of RAM and play on the max possible settings and I don't lag, even with the world generating.

So, RAM may or may not be the main factor of smoothly running Minecraft

I can play it on a netbook, 1.6 ghz processor (read somewhere it was more around 900mhz when running graphic intense programs) and 1 gig ram with onbord graphics card with 128 mb vram.
It runs better than I expected it to but usually get around 10 FPS and it seems if I change the fog distance to far it runs faster somehow...
so it probably isnt the memmory that is slowing it down, but the graphics. From what I know onbord graphics run off of the CPU thus causing the CPU to have a LOT to think about.
It runs decently on a quad core with four gig ram and onbord graphincs with win 7 64 bit. but much less than the below computer
I also have a computer with a intel i7, 4 gig ram, and a nvidia graphics card with 1 gig ram I think (32 bit verson of win 7 as above computer. usually around 80 fps on far and fancy.
SO, I assume it has some to do with the graphics if just to get the load off the CPU

You could have the BEST pc in the world and still lag if your RAM is not good or if your hard disk doesnt have enough empty space. Remember, hard disks can NEVER be filled because they need empty space to make their operations.

Eitherway, download this and run it, it will DEFINITELY boost your performance as it did mine.

http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.html

Also from IObit is Game Booster, highly suggest it too, you can turn on Gaming Mode and it will focus your CPUs resources on the game.