I've been having major issues with Minecraft in the past day or two that have made the game completely unplayable.
The issue occurs about 4-5 mins after starting a map. The framerate drops from around 65fps to 4fps and doesn't ever recover. Restarting the game will reset this whole process, I get about 5 mins of play out of it and then it breaks.
I've played minecraft successfully for a long time and never had this issue. It happens on new maps, old maps, mods or no mods.
Steps I've taken so far.
1. Reinstalled Minecraft. Tried versions 1.3.2 and 1.2.5. Both have the same issues
2. Updated Java. Uninstalled old versions. Java is up to date 100%.
3. Updated drivers. All drivers are up to date.
4. Installed Optifine. Issue still occurs.
5. Allocated more memory. Issue still occurs.
6. Scanned for virus's and malicious software. None found.
My system is more than capable of running Minecraft. As I've said I have been running it successfully for a long time with no issues like this. The only other thing I can think to do is re-install everything on my computer from scratch, but I find it hard to believe that I would have to do that. I have many modern titles installed and all run smoothly.
Indeed, you aren't the only one with this problem. I took a few months off from MineCraft and now when I come back, it's been acting up like this. I reinstalled Java and MineCraft as well, and of course all my drivers are up to date. I see people complaining about this, but no solid solution.
Well, I'm taking the drastic step of doing a full format/re-install.
I needed to do it anyways since this computer was full of junk and a fresh start was needed.
Installed Windows 7 64-bit
Installed Java 1.7.0_07 64-bit
Haven't put minecraft back on the machine yet. Stil doing updates. If this works then I guess there was something buggy with my old setup. It's a shame there's no solid solution for this. I had updated Java and all the drivers and everything beforehand but it was still giving me the issue.
A few things I noticed when trying to make it work...
When the fps drop occurred I would close the map and go to the Minecraft title screen. Starting the world again would buy me another 5 minutes. On two occasions I managed to get it running with NO fps drop after 5 mins but then the error started cropping up again after around 30mins. This managed to happen about 1 in 8 attempts.
Hopefully this will work. I'll post my results when I have everything updated and installed again.
Did you change anything about either your Minecraft game (snapshot, mod install, etc) or your computer in that timeframe?
If you're on a laptop, make sure your laptop is plugged in and using an outside power source and not just the battery. Related to that, check to see what power-saving functions you have implemented.
Check your computer's temperature, too, and see how hot you're running and while at it, check the fans and cooling to make sure everything is in working order (and to make sure the vents and such aren't filled with crud).
Experiencing problems suddenly after five minutes makes me wonder if perhaps your computer is suddenly overheating or having a 'AHHHHHHH! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!' spaz attack for some other 'resources suddenly being eaten up by Minecraft and now I don't know what to do' sort of reason.
Also, if you haven't tried already and if this even applies to you, try running a completely vanilla Minecraft install and see if maybe it's a mod that's suddenly interfering.
I recently had a very sudden problem where not only my FPS plummeted to depths unknown, but I was also glitching everywhere and it turned out to be a problem with a mod that was trying to ping information to a server but the server was either down or overloaded or both and it was, for some reason, causing my game to seriously eat up resources and lag like nobody's business.
I posted something similiar yesterday. It start up fine and with in a couple of minutes the background becomes, very colorful in a wireframe state. and is not playable. Somebody asked me to send them a screen shot. But I was not able to. Not sure if I am doing it right with the screenshot.
If you're on a laptop, make sure your laptop is plugged in and using an outside power source and not just the battery. Related to that, check to see what power-saving functions you have implemented.
Check your computer's temperature, too, and see how hot you're running and while at it, check the fans and cooling to make sure everything is in working order (and to make sure the vents and such aren't filled with crud).
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!!!
Okay, so after doing a full system re-install, installing all the latest drivers, installing latest Java.. blah blah blah, I was getting the same problem.
At that point it pretty much narrowed down the possibilities to two things. Either Minecraft is messed up somewhere internally and a hardware combination that I'm using (as well as some others maybe too) was causing the issue. This seemed somewhat unlikely to me, but I have no way of really testing it.
That left my hardware. I considered memory problems, but hadn't had issues with memory ever. I considered that maybe the system was running hot. I downloaded a hardware monitor from http://www.cpuid.com/ and give it a whirl. Sure enough, my GPU was redlining. After disasembling the computer, removing the heatsink/fan from the GPU, cleaning all the dust and crud out, re-assembling it and giving the rest of the machine a good cleaning, including cleaning the CPU's heatsink and fan in a similar way, once I reassembled the machine the GPU is back in the green. The GPU temperature is down by almost 50 degrees.
I gave minecraft a whirl and sure enough... SMOOTH! No sudden loss of FPS. This made my day
So, lesson learned. Clean your computer more frequently! If you're having this issue, it might be something you want to look at first.
That left my hardware. I considered memory problems, but hadn't had issues with memory ever. I considered that maybe the system was running hot. I downloaded a hardware monitor from http://www.cpuid.com/ and give it a whirl. Sure enough, my GPU was redlining. After disasembling the computer, removing the heatsink/fan from the GPU, cleaning all the dust and crud out, re-assembling it and giving the rest of the machine a good cleaning, including cleaning the CPU's heatsink and fan in a similar way, once I reassembled the machine the GPU is back in the green. The GPU temperature is down by almost 50 degrees.
I gave minecraft a whirl and sure enough... SMOOTH! No sudden loss of FPS. This made my day
So, lesson learned. Clean your computer more frequently! If you're having this issue, it might be something you want to look at first.
W000T!!! :D! That's awesome that the problem got solved! Glad to know you're ready to play Minecraft again!
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The issue occurs about 4-5 mins after starting a map. The framerate drops from around 65fps to 4fps and doesn't ever recover. Restarting the game will reset this whole process, I get about 5 mins of play out of it and then it breaks.
I've played minecraft successfully for a long time and never had this issue. It happens on new maps, old maps, mods or no mods.
Steps I've taken so far.
1. Reinstalled Minecraft. Tried versions 1.3.2 and 1.2.5. Both have the same issues
2. Updated Java. Uninstalled old versions. Java is up to date 100%.
3. Updated drivers. All drivers are up to date.
4. Installed Optifine. Issue still occurs.
5. Allocated more memory. Issue still occurs.
6. Scanned for virus's and malicious software. None found.
My system is more than capable of running Minecraft. As I've said I have been running it successfully for a long time with no issues like this. The only other thing I can think to do is re-install everything on my computer from scratch, but I find it hard to believe that I would have to do that. I have many modern titles installed and all run smoothly.
I needed to do it anyways since this computer was full of junk and a fresh start was needed.
Installed Windows 7 64-bit
Installed Java 1.7.0_07 64-bit
Haven't put minecraft back on the machine yet. Stil doing updates. If this works then I guess there was something buggy with my old setup. It's a shame there's no solid solution for this. I had updated Java and all the drivers and everything beforehand but it was still giving me the issue.
A few things I noticed when trying to make it work...
When the fps drop occurred I would close the map and go to the Minecraft title screen. Starting the world again would buy me another 5 minutes. On two occasions I managed to get it running with NO fps drop after 5 mins but then the error started cropping up again after around 30mins. This managed to happen about 1 in 8 attempts.
Hopefully this will work. I'll post my results when I have everything updated and installed again.
Thank you for the replies.
If you're on a laptop, make sure your laptop is plugged in and using an outside power source and not just the battery. Related to that, check to see what power-saving functions you have implemented.
Check your computer's temperature, too, and see how hot you're running and while at it, check the fans and cooling to make sure everything is in working order (and to make sure the vents and such aren't filled with crud).
Experiencing problems suddenly after five minutes makes me wonder if perhaps your computer is suddenly overheating or having a 'AHHHHHHH! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!' spaz attack for some other 'resources suddenly being eaten up by Minecraft and now I don't know what to do' sort of reason.
Also, if you haven't tried already and if this even applies to you, try running a completely vanilla Minecraft install and see if maybe it's a mod that's suddenly interfering.
I recently had a very sudden problem where not only my FPS plummeted to depths unknown, but I was also glitching everywhere and it turned out to be a problem with a mod that was trying to ping information to a server but the server was either down or overloaded or both and it was, for some reason, causing my game to seriously eat up resources and lag like nobody's business.
The issue was happening with mods, without mods. I tried under Minecraft 1.3.2, 1.3.1 and 1.2.5 and got the same issue every time.
Not using a laptop.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!!!
Okay, so after doing a full system re-install, installing all the latest drivers, installing latest Java.. blah blah blah, I was getting the same problem.
At that point it pretty much narrowed down the possibilities to two things. Either Minecraft is messed up somewhere internally and a hardware combination that I'm using (as well as some others maybe too) was causing the issue. This seemed somewhat unlikely to me, but I have no way of really testing it.
That left my hardware. I considered memory problems, but hadn't had issues with memory ever. I considered that maybe the system was running hot. I downloaded a hardware monitor from http://www.cpuid.com/ and give it a whirl. Sure enough, my GPU was redlining. After disasembling the computer, removing the heatsink/fan from the GPU, cleaning all the dust and crud out, re-assembling it and giving the rest of the machine a good cleaning, including cleaning the CPU's heatsink and fan in a similar way, once I reassembled the machine the GPU is back in the green. The GPU temperature is down by almost 50 degrees.
I gave minecraft a whirl and sure enough... SMOOTH! No sudden loss of FPS. This made my day
So, lesson learned. Clean your computer more frequently! If you're having this issue, it might be something you want to look at first.
W000T!!! :D! That's awesome that the problem got solved! Glad to know you're ready to play Minecraft again!