I recently bought and HP laptop, with 4 gigs RAM, i7 quad 2.2Ghrz CPU and ATI HD6490M 1Gb graphics. I downloaded Minecraft, but for some reason, it lags more and has really reduced performance on the laptop compared to my old computer, a desktop.
Minecraft is ran with the same video configuration, mods and texture pack on both PCs.
Here are the specs:
Laptop: Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.20 GHz, 4Gb DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6490M VGA at 1Gb, and a SATA 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD.
Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo ~2.33 GHz, 4Gb DDR2 RAM, AMD Radeon 4600 series at 512Mb, and 1TB HDD.
Why cannot my laptop play Minecraft as the desktop does? Please help me.
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I recently bought and HP laptop, with 4 gigs RAM, i7 quad 2.2Ghrz CPU and ATI HD6490M 1Gb graphics. I downloaded Minecraft, but for some reason, it lags more and has really reduced performance on the laptop compared to my old computer, a desktop.
Minecraft is ran with the same video configuration, mods and texture pack on both PCs.
Here are the specs:
Laptop: Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.20 GHz, 4Gb DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6490M VGA at 1Gb, and a SATA 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD.
Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo ~2.33 GHz, 4Gb DDR2 RAM, AMD Radeon 4600 series at 512Mb, and 1TB HDD.
Why cannot my laptop play Minecraft as the desktop does? Please help me.
because laptops suck :dry.gif:
also are you running anything different on the laptop? Such as bloatware or say... norton anti-virus?
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"I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly.
It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin
well what graphics do you have? also try putting more memory in java for mine craft. my old comp could run on normal render and fast graphics with minimal lag, my new computer can run faster on maxed because i gave it more memory
You shouldn't be lagging much, the GPU is actually decent, CPU is fine as well as your memory, do you have any bloatware like others said. This can slow you down quite a bit.
I recently bought and HP laptop, with 4 gigs RAM, i7 quad 2.2Ghrz CPU and ATI HD6490M 1Gb graphics. I downloaded Minecraft, but for some reason, it lags more and has really reduced performance on the laptop compared to my old computer, a desktop.
Minecraft is ran with the same video configuration, mods and texture pack on both PCs.
Here are the specs:
Laptop: Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.20 GHz, 4Gb DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6490M VGA at 1Gb, and a SATA 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD.
Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo ~2.33 GHz, 4Gb DDR2 RAM, AMD Radeon 4600 series at 512Mb, and 1TB HDD.
Why cannot my laptop play Minecraft as the desktop does? Please help me.
Give Minecraft and all Java processes higher priority (using task manager). That might help.
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"I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly.
It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin
First of all, Minecraft is only programmed to utilize one core, no matter how many cores your laptop has. So a 3 ghz Pentium 4 would run better than a 2.2 ghz i7, from my understanding. Definately get the Optifine MT mod (The Multi-thread version, i.e. MT). This will allow Minecraft to utilize a second core of your CPU specifically for loading the world.
Secondly, most laptops pull their video RAM from memory shared by the system. This causes inefficiencies that can make things lag as well. There's not much to be done here, unless you crank your video settings all the way down to nothing. Optifine adds many more options, and I've read that one of the biggest pulls are the animations. So if you set water/lava animations to off, you may get a lot more performance out of things.
Thirdly, as was mentioned before, make sure you don't have a large amount of bloatware and such slowing down your machine. There are free programs online that let you disable unnecessary services for running games. Game Fire is one of them, and it is free and open source.
Next, make sure your power settings are configured for maximum performance so that it is not taking power from the CPU in order to increase battery life.
Make sure you are running the appropriate version of Java (32 or 64) and that you have given it a decent (1-2GB) size memory allocation.
Lastly, heat is a major issue. I could not even run Minecraft on my 2.2 Ghz Core Two Duo Toshiba, but once I bought a cheap $10 USB powered cooling rack, it runs so much better and I now run a second monitor on my system because I'm able to run Minecraft on minimum specs (I'd run them on normal specs, but the connection at work where I use my laptop is terrible so it suffers with loading the world from our server) and work on other projects (Photoshop, Blender, Google Sketchup, etc) at the same time.
First of all, Minecraft is only programmed to utilize one core, no matter how many cores your laptop has. So a 3 ghz Pentium 4 would run better than a 2.2 ghz i7, from my understanding. Definately get the Optifine MT mod (The Multi-thread version, i.e. MT). This will allow Minecraft to utilize a second core of your CPU specifically for loading the world.
Secondly, most laptops pull their video RAM from memory shared by the system. This causes inefficiencies that can make things lag as well. There's not much to be done here, unless you crank your video settings all the way down to nothing. Optifine adds many more options, and I've read that one of the biggest pulls are the animations. So if you set water/lava animations to off, you may get a lot more performance out of things.
Thirdly, as was mentioned before, make sure you don't have a large amount of bloatware and such slowing down your machine. There are free programs online that let you disable unnecessary services for running games. Game Fire is one of them, and it is free and open source.
Next, make sure your power settings are configured for maximum performance so that it is not taking power from the CPU in order to increase battery life.
Make sure you are running the appropriate version of Java (32 or 64) and that you have given it a decent (1-2GB) size memory allocation.
Lastly, heat is a major issue. I could not even run Minecraft on my 2.2 Ghz Core Two Duo Toshiba, but once I bought a cheap $10 USB powered cooling rack, it runs so much better and I now run a second monitor on my system because I'm able to run Minecraft on minimum specs (I'd run them on normal specs, but the connection at work where I use my laptop is terrible so it suffers with loading the world from our server) and work on other projects (Photoshop, Blender, Google Sketchup, etc) at the same time.
This, however, this GPU is dedicated and has it's own video memory, so that is not an issue.
TC, are your drivers and Java platform updated? Are you using 64bit Java on a 64bit OS? Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to check if anythingg is sucking up memory or your CPU.
First of all, Minecraft is only programmed to utilize one core, no matter how many cores your laptop has. So a 3 ghz Pentium 4 would run better than a 2.2 ghz i7, from my understanding. Definately get the Optifine MT mod (The Multi-thread version, i.e. MT). This will allow Minecraft to utilize a second core of your CPU specifically for loading the world.
Secondly, most laptops pull their video RAM from memory shared by the system. This causes inefficiencies that can make things lag as well. There's not much to be done here, unless you crank your video settings all the way down to nothing. Optifine adds many more options, and I've read that one of the biggest pulls are the animations. So if you set water/lava animations to off, you may get a lot more performance out of things.
Thirdly, as was mentioned before, make sure you don't have a large amount of bloatware and such slowing down your machine. There are free programs online that let you disable unnecessary services for running games. Game Fire is one of them, and it is free and open source.
Next, make sure your power settings are configured for maximum performance so that it is not taking power from the CPU in order to increase battery life.
Make sure you are running the appropriate version of Java (32 or 64) and that you have given it a decent (1-2GB) size memory allocation.
Lastly, heat is a major issue. I could not even run Minecraft on my 2.2 Ghz Core Two Duo Toshiba, but once I bought a cheap $10 USB powered cooling rack, it runs so much better and I now run a second monitor on my system because I'm able to run Minecraft on minimum specs (I'd run them on normal specs, but the connection at work where I use my laptop is terrible so it suffers with loading the world from our server) and work on other projects (Photoshop, Blender, Google Sketchup, etc) at the same time.
I' ll do as you say, will get Optifine.
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omg if i had a pound for every person who has said this i would have £43 but any way laptops are NOT "suck" they can be as bad as some desktops , my first pc that i got is 10x more **** than my laptop
Your first pc? and when was this? 90's?
All i'm saying is if you spend money on a laptop (retail price) you can probably get a desktop 2-3 times better (retail price). You're paying wayy too much money for portability. It isn't worth it, that's why I say they suck. Spend the least amount of money on a laptop, and most amount of money on a desktop.
"I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly.
It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin
Minecraft is ran with the same video configuration, mods and texture pack on both PCs.
Here are the specs:
Laptop: Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.20 GHz, 4Gb DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6490M VGA at 1Gb, and a SATA 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD.
Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo ~2.33 GHz, 4Gb DDR2 RAM, AMD Radeon 4600 series at 512Mb, and 1TB HDD.
Why cannot my laptop play Minecraft as the desktop does? Please help me.
because laptops suck :dry.gif:
also are you running anything different on the laptop? Such as bloatware or say... norton anti-virus?
"I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly.
It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin
"War is the science of destruction." - John Abbott
you are my new hero. Laptops do suck.
No it's not, don't know don't post.
You shouldn't be lagging much, the GPU is actually decent, CPU is fine as well as your memory, do you have any bloatware like others said. This can slow you down quite a bit.
"I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly.
It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin
Sigh, the i7 here is most likely stronger than his notebook:
http://cpubenchmark....0QM+%40+2.20GHz
Memory wouldn't make much of a difference.
Yes, it is a laptop, but that isn't the issue, his specs aren't bad, they are better than some desktops so please stop with that y'all.
Benchmarks for the GPU:
http://www.notebookc...0M.43843.0.html
Secondly, most laptops pull their video RAM from memory shared by the system. This causes inefficiencies that can make things lag as well. There's not much to be done here, unless you crank your video settings all the way down to nothing. Optifine adds many more options, and I've read that one of the biggest pulls are the animations. So if you set water/lava animations to off, you may get a lot more performance out of things.
Thirdly, as was mentioned before, make sure you don't have a large amount of bloatware and such slowing down your machine. There are free programs online that let you disable unnecessary services for running games. Game Fire is one of them, and it is free and open source.
Next, make sure your power settings are configured for maximum performance so that it is not taking power from the CPU in order to increase battery life.
Make sure you are running the appropriate version of Java (32 or 64) and that you have given it a decent (1-2GB) size memory allocation.
Lastly, heat is a major issue. I could not even run Minecraft on my 2.2 Ghz Core Two Duo Toshiba, but once I bought a cheap $10 USB powered cooling rack, it runs so much better and I now run a second monitor on my system because I'm able to run Minecraft on minimum specs (I'd run them on normal specs, but the connection at work where I use my laptop is terrible so it suffers with loading the world from our server) and work on other projects (Photoshop, Blender, Google Sketchup, etc) at the same time.
Yes, I' m running Norton. Does it create the whole problem?
This, however, this GPU is dedicated and has it's own video memory, so that is not an issue.
Prioritizing workload tends to make things slower.
I' ll do as you say, will get Optifine.
Your first pc? and when was this? 90's?
All i'm saying is if you spend money on a laptop (retail price) you can probably get a desktop 2-3 times better (retail price). You're paying wayy too much money for portability. It isn't worth it, that's why I say they suck. Spend the least amount of money on a laptop, and most amount of money on a desktop.
"I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly.
It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin
So, the problem is that HD6490M is an entry level VGA? I thought it was a good choice for a notebook. Would a GT525 be better?
How do I change that?