I am using a 3 year old Dell 1545 laptop and I get 30-60 FPS for Minecraft 1.4.2 with Optifine. I do have 1 more gig of ram than mentioned, so that is probably a big difference. My graphics are integrated.
As Luis mentioned. Maybe time for a little upgrade.
Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8
2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon X1600
256 mb VRAm
I only started playing in 1.3 but my FPS Hovered around 20 - 40 with dips to low of 5. Relatively playable. After Installing Optifine It was beautiful, even reaching as high as 50 FPS. Even used a HD 32x32 texture pack. Life was good back then
In 1.4 My FPS starts out in the 20's and after about 5-10 minutes stays around 2-14, with decreasing performance the more I play. I tried a fresh install, with and without optifine. It didn't do crap.
Well try and find out and I can tell you what the issue is. It most certainly isn't down to 1.4
(How do I know? 1.3.2 default txtpack: 80-90 fps constant, 1.4.2 256x256 txtpack: 120-140fps+ constant)
I don't think so. When I login to minecraft (with the sound on) and javaw.exe is running at about 70-80% with that scrolling background. I load my save game and run around in circles for about 10 seconds and it lags bad.
Save and quit to the main menu and the javaw.exe process is running at 49% and System (the operating system kernel) is about 49%. The scrolling background is even lagging at this point. I quit minecraft and the computer returns to normal. Load minecraft up again and the system process is at 1% and javaw.exe is at 70-80%. I can load my save game and not move and the kernel doesn't go crazy (but that's no way to play a game).
While this is really irritating when I run this on my 5-6 year old desktop running XP SP3 (the newer laptop is running windows 7) runs without any issue and I'm sitting here scratching my head on why this is happening. Probably the more annoying thing is I was originally running minecraft on my laptop until it started having a few issues (with no trouble under 1.3.2) and then today I copy the save files back across to the laptop and click the yes to updates and shoot myself in the foot.
So while I wait for an update to fix this I'll have to play with the sound off.
I have been using the Mineshafter client proxy for ages and wondering why I get lag spikes.. Well I recently upgraded to premium and the lag spikes are gone.. If you are playing with a proxy it is more than likely the reason you are getting FPS attacks
copy and past that into notepad and save it as run.bat and all files
just replace them stars with your pc name and start you minecraft with that file you make
In singleplayer, the game runs fine on my laptop at a consistent 60 FPS, which I can boost to upwards of 300 by turning every setting to the lowest and playing on a flat world, however on multiplayer I've recently experienced huge framerate drops. The game will run fine at a normal FPS for a while, and then suddenly drop to under 5 FPS and become unresponsive.
Optifine does nothing to help, and I'm starting to give up on multiplayer altogether.
My computer's specs are:
Intel core i5-2450m at 2.5GHZ
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 1GB dedicated VRAM
4GB DDR3 memory
Which should run the game fine, as it does in singleplayer. It isn't a problem with my internet connection either, as speedtest.net rates my internet at 36.85 MBPS download speed and 8.23 upload speed.
What confuses me is that an old laptop of mine with integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics that I need to run Minecraft off of a RAMdisk on just to get playable framerates seems to run the game fine, and remains unaffected by the latest update, whilst my current computer that should be able to play Minecraft very well is struggling.
EDIT:
Although I bought a Minecraft account a while ago, I have been using a cracked launcher since a couple of months ago because I usually only play on cracked servers. After posting this, I tried to play Minecraft using the official launcher and logging in using my actual account and the lag seems to have disappeared completely. If any posters in this thread are using cracked Minecraft and know somebody who bought the game, try logging in with their account and see if that fixes the problem.
TL;DR - I had this problem too, if you experience lag using cracked Minecraft then try buying the game, you cheapskates.
Specs for both PC:
Pentium Duo Core @ 3.0ghz 3.0ghz
Ram: 8 GB
HD: 500GB Sata x2
Os: Windows 7 64-bit
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 TI - 2GB
Pentium Duo Core @ 2.4ghz 2.4ghz
Ram: 8GB
HD: 500GB Sata
Os: Windows Vista 32-bit
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX 512mb
I can play games like Skyrim with everything maxed with no video lag, but minecraft is nearly unplayable since the last patch.
As Luis mentioned. Maybe time for a little upgrade.
Marv
2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon X1600
256 mb VRAm
I only started playing in 1.3 but my FPS Hovered around 20 - 40 with dips to low of 5. Relatively playable. After Installing Optifine It was beautiful, even reaching as high as 50 FPS. Even used a HD 32x32 texture pack. Life was good back then
In 1.4 My FPS starts out in the 20's and after about 5-10 minutes stays around 2-14, with decreasing performance the more I play. I tried a fresh install, with and without optifine. It didn't do crap.
GTX 670 DCII Top
8GB 1600MHz RAM
Ran pefectly fine before, but now there are tons of lag spikes and I notice my GPU usage drops to about 0% when these lag spikes occur. Dang 1.4.2.
I don't think so. When I login to minecraft (with the sound on) and javaw.exe is running at about 70-80% with that scrolling background. I load my save game and run around in circles for about 10 seconds and it lags bad.
Save and quit to the main menu and the javaw.exe process is running at 49% and System (the operating system kernel) is about 49%. The scrolling background is even lagging at this point. I quit minecraft and the computer returns to normal. Load minecraft up again and the system process is at 1% and javaw.exe is at 70-80%. I can load my save game and not move and the kernel doesn't go crazy (but that's no way to play a game).
While this is really irritating when I run this on my 5-6 year old desktop running XP SP3 (the newer laptop is running windows 7) runs without any issue and I'm sitting here scratching my head on why this is happening. Probably the more annoying thing is I was originally running minecraft on my laptop until it started having a few issues (with no trouble under 1.3.2) and then today I copy the save files back across to the laptop and click the yes to updates and shoot myself in the foot.
So while I wait for an update to fix this I'll have to play with the sound off.
I have been using the Mineshafter client proxy for ages and wondering why I get lag spikes.. Well I recently upgraded to premium and the lag spikes are gone.. If you are playing with a proxy it is more than likely the reason you are getting FPS attacks
javaw -Xmx1024m -Xms1024m -jar "C:\Users\*******\Desktop\Minecraft.exe"
copy and past that into notepad and save it as run.bat and all files
just replace them stars with your pc name and start you minecraft with that file you make
Optifine does nothing to help, and I'm starting to give up on multiplayer altogether.
My computer's specs are:
Intel core i5-2450m at 2.5GHZ
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 1GB dedicated VRAM
4GB DDR3 memory
Which should run the game fine, as it does in singleplayer. It isn't a problem with my internet connection either, as speedtest.net rates my internet at 36.85 MBPS download speed and 8.23 upload speed.
What confuses me is that an old laptop of mine with integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics that I need to run Minecraft off of a RAMdisk on just to get playable framerates seems to run the game fine, and remains unaffected by the latest update, whilst my current computer that should be able to play Minecraft very well is struggling.
EDIT:
Although I bought a Minecraft account a while ago, I have been using a cracked launcher since a couple of months ago because I usually only play on cracked servers. After posting this, I tried to play Minecraft using the official launcher and logging in using my actual account and the lag seems to have disappeared completely. If any posters in this thread are using cracked Minecraft and know somebody who bought the game, try logging in with their account and see if that fixes the problem.
TL;DR - I had this problem too, if you experience lag using cracked Minecraft then try buying the game, you cheapskates.