Today when I was playing Minecraft, I was having a high number of crashes. Minecraft would freeze and never get unfrozen. I would have to go to task manager and click the End Task button multiple times before I get a message saying Minecraft isn't responding. It calls Minecraft Java something blah blah blah. Before I got MCPatcher it didn't do this, it would crash like one or two times, but today it crashed ten or twenty times. I don't know if it's MCPatcher or my computer. I only have four gigabytes of RAM.
Which CPU an GPU do you have?
Have you tried Optifine instead of MCPatcher?
Have you x64 Java installed if you have an x64 OS
My computer has an operating system of Windows seven. I haven't used Optifine yet, I've never heard of it. I have a sixty-four bit operating system and a sixty four bit Java.
When I get weird crashes like that all of a sudden, a reboot will usually fix it. Sounds like a process isn't closing properly.
If you reboot, does it still happen?
I did not reboot the computer yesterday, except for the time I turned off my computer. But it's not doing as much crashes anymore, but the computer can always change its mind. And yes, the process isn't closing like it should close. Usually you just have to click End Task one time, but for me, I have to click it thirty or forty times and get eight "This program is not responding" messages, and I have to click all the End Now buttons until the messages go behind a window.
It really allows you to crank up the settings and improve performance. Having said that, I've found it works best when allotting 3 GB (of 4) to Minecraft.
From the sounds of it, I would bet it's a RAM problem -- MC isn't using enough RAM, so it's slowing down to teh point where it appears to lock up.
Does it improve if you set your settings to the minimal allowed?
It really allows you to crank up the settings and improve performance. Having said that, I've found it works best when allotting 3 GB (of 4) to Minecraft.
From the sounds of it, I would bet it's a RAM problem -- MC isn't using enough RAM, so it's slowing down to teh point where it appears to lock up.
Does it improve if you set your settings to the minimal allowed?
Task Manager always calls Minecraft Java(TM) SE Binary, so that may be Java. I don't want to use too much RAM due to my computer being approximately three years old. And I only have four gigabytes of RAM, so Minecraft may be using too little RAM, but it's acting fine now. It's now kind of past the time.
Now Minecraft is kind of acting up. I just restarted Minecraft from a crash, and I played for thirty seconds and now it crashed. I'll see if restarting works. Usually these are the programs I run:
Minecraft
Firefox (browser)
Task manager
Now Minecraft is kind of acting up. I just restarted Minecraft from a crash, and I played for thirty seconds and now it crashed. I'll see if restarting works. Usually these are the programs I run:
Minecraft
Firefox (browser)
Task manager
Seriously, check this thread. I have a 4GB laptop system that isn't the best. As soon as I allocated 3 GB to Minecraft, all my problems went away. Prior to that my system was so hot, it was crashing power-off state due to temperature. I was risking motherboard meltdown. With a few lines in a text file, that's history.
Keeping Firefox open during minecraft can also rob RAM, although (again) with the boost I talked about above, that's not really a problem either. Your system can run just fine with the remaining 1 GB RAM free for it. I can run Chrome, iTunes, Thunderbird and a host of other programs WHILE running Minecraft now.
That's in combination with OptiFine, which is also helping, but you might just want to try the RAM tweak first.
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If you reboot, does it still happen?
Optifine is an MC optimizer app. There's a giant thread on here, with the download link:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/249637-132-optifine-hd-b3-fps-boost-hd-textures-aa-af-and-much-more/
It really allows you to crank up the settings and improve performance. Having said that, I've found it works best when allotting 3 GB (of 4) to Minecraft.
From the sounds of it, I would bet it's a RAM problem -- MC isn't using enough RAM, so it's slowing down to teh point where it appears to lock up.
Does it improve if you set your settings to the minimal allowed?
Minecraft
Firefox (browser)
Task manager
Seriously, check this thread. I have a 4GB laptop system that isn't the best. As soon as I allocated 3 GB to Minecraft, all my problems went away. Prior to that my system was so hot, it was crashing power-off state due to temperature. I was risking motherboard meltdown. With a few lines in a text file, that's history.
Here's how:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1395030-tutorial-allocate-more-memory-for-minecraft/
Keeping Firefox open during minecraft can also rob RAM, although (again) with the boost I talked about above, that's not really a problem either. Your system can run just fine with the remaining 1 GB RAM free for it. I can run Chrome, iTunes, Thunderbird and a host of other programs WHILE running Minecraft now.
That's in combination with OptiFine, which is also helping, but you might just want to try the RAM tweak first.