I bought an Alienware X51 with 8 gig ram last year in late October, and it is a monster. I run all my games on the highest graphics with excellent to decent fps.
There is one problem though.
It's my minecraft. It runs with all the best graphical options turned on and far render distance at about 120 fps. I can blow up all the tnt I want. The problem is after about 10 minutes of play I suddenly drop to zero to one frames per second. It happens every time. I usually hit f3 before it happens so I can see all the details.
Now, I'm not very good with all the computery-technical-mumbo-jumbo, but I'll try to be as helpful as possible.
4 of my 8 gigs of ram are dedicated and memory usage usually hovers around 20 percent (even when I have the huge fps drop). The tower isn't over-heating. I'm always in single player and it doesn't matter what I'm doing (so its not because I set off 200 blocks of tnt). I have no mods installed.
Speaking of mods, I have tried installing optifine to see if it'd fix things up but after installing both it and minecraft itself several times, its like the mod wasn't even there (which may be another problem with my minecraft entirely).
Oh, and I'm on Windows 7.
I've had my uncle, who is far more IT capable than I am, run scans, defrag, do some updates etc to fix some different problems irrelevant to minecraft and I had been hoping those updates and fixes would also get my minecraft working. Nothing. Not a single thing has changed. I do think that updating my drivers might fix things but, as I said before, I'm not very smart computer-wise and unsure of how to update my drivers.
Any help that anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated. This problem has been going since I got my alienware and it's getting a weeee bit annoying now. Thanks in advance.
And sorry for how big this post is.
Minecraft is coded in Java, understand that Java isn't the best platform for "max performance"
4 of my 8 gigs of ram are dedicated
This is too much, I quote.
You'd typically only want to allocate at maximum 2GB of RAM before game performance deteriorates. For a typical guideline,
Vanilla/unmodified minecraft: ~500mb
Lightly modified minecraft: 600-800mb
moderately modified minecraft: ~1000mb
Heavily modified minecraft: 1000mb to 1500mb
Secondly, are you using the correct version of Java? I'm sure for an Alienware device you must be on a 64bit system. Do you have 64 bit java installed? Using this version significantly increases performance. You'd might want to update LWJGL too, there is a link in my signature. Some users report better performance when updating that.
When using Optifine, you'd typically only want to set your FPS at a max of 65. Anything after that is wasted cycles and have typically no additional effect whatsoever.
There is one problem though.
It's my minecraft. It runs with all the best graphical options turned on and far render distance at about 120 fps. I can blow up all the tnt I want. The problem is after about 10 minutes of play I suddenly drop to zero to one frames per second. It happens every time. I usually hit f3 before it happens so I can see all the details.
Now, I'm not very good with all the computery-technical-mumbo-jumbo, but I'll try to be as helpful as possible.
4 of my 8 gigs of ram are dedicated and memory usage usually hovers around 20 percent (even when I have the huge fps drop). The tower isn't over-heating. I'm always in single player and it doesn't matter what I'm doing (so its not because I set off 200 blocks of tnt). I have no mods installed.
Speaking of mods, I have tried installing optifine to see if it'd fix things up but after installing both it and minecraft itself several times, its like the mod wasn't even there (which may be another problem with my minecraft entirely).
Oh, and I'm on Windows 7.
I've had my uncle, who is far more IT capable than I am, run scans, defrag, do some updates etc to fix some different problems irrelevant to minecraft and I had been hoping those updates and fixes would also get my minecraft working. Nothing. Not a single thing has changed. I do think that updating my drivers might fix things but, as I said before, I'm not very smart computer-wise and unsure of how to update my drivers.
Any help that anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated. This problem has been going since I got my alienware and it's getting a weeee bit annoying now. Thanks in advance.
And sorry for how big this post is.
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Retired StaffThis is too much, I quote.
You'd typically only want to allocate at maximum 2GB of RAM before game performance deteriorates. For a typical guideline,
Secondly, are you using the correct version of Java? I'm sure for an Alienware device you must be on a 64bit system. Do you have 64 bit java installed? Using this version significantly increases performance. You'd might want to update LWJGL too, there is a link in my signature. Some users report better performance when updating that.
When using Optifine, you'd typically only want to set your FPS at a max of 65. Anything after that is wasted cycles and have typically no additional effect whatsoever.
And one last thing. What is LWJGL?