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So, everyone remembers the Lag Spike of Death and how it acted like a heartbeat in Minecraft temporarily freezing your game for that agonizing split second? Well, I have the same thing, BUT on ALL versions of Minecraft, modded or vanilla, in-game AND on the menu! My computer is plenty decent enough to play Minecraft at 60+ frames with ease, but this temporary stutter is killing me.

Specifications:
Windows 7 64-bit
2.8 Quad-Core AMD Athlon II X4
12GB RAM
EVGA Nvidia GTX580 3GB RAM Gfx card

Using newest version of 64-bit Java RE. Not running any other programs, only happens with Minecraft. I write programs in Java using LWJGL and none of them experience this odd stutter. Any ideas?

Thanks,
TheMiA

Yes I just installed 7u21 and version 2.90 of LWJGL from the official website and using MultiMC. I've also tried different launchers and launching methods using many different amounts of RAM.

DxDiag:
http://pastebin.com/HSYEmNtZ

Hate to do this, but this is infuriating. I constantly get this spike and die while trying to build, or it causes me to click the wrong thing on my menu. Anyone have any idea what is wrong?

This mod fixes the lag spike of death.

What you describe does not seem like the lag spike of death. What's probably happening (speaking from experience) is some other process is accessing the disk while Minecraft is running.

To find out if this is the case, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and "Start Task Manager". On the "Performance" tab, click on the "Resource Monitor..." button. Go to the "Disk" tab. It should say "Disk Activity [green square] X/sec Disk I/O [blue square] X% Highest Active Time".

Post what the X's say. On my system, with the hard drive being acessed frequently, I see this:



My X's say "9 MB/sec Disk I/O" and "98% Highest Active Time".

Quote from Travuersa

This mod fixes the lag spike of death.

What you describe does not seem like the lag spike of death. What's probably happening (speaking from experience) is some other process is accessing the disk while Minecraft is running.

To find out if this is the case, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and "Start Task Manager". On the "Performance" tab, click on the "Resource Monitor..." button. Go to the "Disk" tab. It should say "Disk Activity [green square] X/sec Disk I/O [blue square] X% Highest Active Time".

Post what the X's say. On my system, with the hard drive being acessed frequently, I see this:



My X's say "9 MB/sec Disk I/O" and "98% Highest Active Time".

I've already tried OptiFine. Also, I'm not computer illiterate but I understand why you had to explain that. With all my current programs running it's only I/O at 0-1500kB/s and 0-5% Highest Active Time. I highly doubt my hard drives are causing the issue.

EDIT: I ran Minecraft and was watching the Disk Usage, I do notice spikes in the amount of data being written but it's capped around ~60kB/s. I still don't see how that is a cause of the lagspike, but is that it?

You know that joke solution of "Did you try turning it off and on again?" Well, it worked. Computer was just tired and needed a nap, I'll make sure to do it more often. Lol, thanks for your help everyone.