Greetings all, I'm pretty new to MC, newer to servers, and newEST to the forums.
Without making this too lengthy, I'm fairly surprised with how my PC has held up with my recent jump to server play, but as I always knew even in singleplayer, there is MUCH room for improvement.
I'm running a 4 year old laptop, my good ol' reliable 2009 Lenovo y530 (model 4051), with a Dual Pentium T3400 2.16Ghz processor, and 2GB RAM, running Windows Vista Home 32 bit.
While I know that to today's standards, this machine is rapidly growing very outdated, but I have not upgraded for mainly the reasoning of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." This machine, regardless of her age, continues to fare me well. Besides, I can't afford to invest in a new one all together, nor do I yet see the necessity.
In any event, I'm looking to enhance my gameplay experience, between reducing personal lag, and increasing rendering distance, etc.. I'm asking if anyone has any additional suggestions to stretch this machine's legs a bit more, without having to throw down on a whole new, recent unit.
What I've done/been doing: To maximize the amount of available memory JUST FOR MC, I always make sure to open task manager and kill EVERYTHING in the background not essential to keeping the unit stable before I execute minecraft.exe.
Being that I'm running at only 2GB of memory, and that I have over 300GB of free hard drive space I'm not doing anything with, I created an active page file of 100GB. I know this is not reliable and will not/has not had any MAJOR impacts, it has slightly helped.
My machine's max memory is only 4GB, so I just ordered more to max it out and am expecting delivery early next week. I hope this will make somewhat of a dent in my objecive.
That's about it, but I was hoping to get some input from those of you much more experienced than I, who might know the sores of being limited by their own technology, while simultaneously being as poor as I.
Without making this too lengthy, I'm fairly surprised with how my PC has held up with my recent jump to server play, but as I always knew even in singleplayer, there is MUCH room for improvement.
I'm running a 4 year old laptop, my good ol' reliable 2009 Lenovo y530 (model 4051), with a Dual Pentium T3400 2.16Ghz processor, and 2GB RAM, running Windows Vista Home 32 bit.
While I know that to today's standards, this machine is rapidly growing very outdated, but I have not upgraded for mainly the reasoning of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." This machine, regardless of her age, continues to fare me well. Besides, I can't afford to invest in a new one all together, nor do I yet see the necessity.
In any event, I'm looking to enhance my gameplay experience, between reducing personal lag, and increasing rendering distance, etc.. I'm asking if anyone has any additional suggestions to stretch this machine's legs a bit more, without having to throw down on a whole new, recent unit.
What I've done/been doing: To maximize the amount of available memory JUST FOR MC, I always make sure to open task manager and kill EVERYTHING in the background not essential to keeping the unit stable before I execute minecraft.exe.
Being that I'm running at only 2GB of memory, and that I have over 300GB of free hard drive space I'm not doing anything with, I created an active page file of 100GB. I know this is not reliable and will not/has not had any MAJOR impacts, it has slightly helped.
My machine's max memory is only 4GB, so I just ordered more to max it out and am expecting delivery early next week. I hope this will make somewhat of a dent in my objecive.
That's about it, but I was hoping to get some input from those of you much more experienced than I, who might know the sores of being limited by their own technology, while simultaneously being as poor as I.
Thank you in advance!
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Retired StaffThis guide should help tremendously.