Before the school year last year ended, I lived with my father and his relatively bad Internet speed. During the summer, I moved in with my mother, very improved speed. Now that the school year has once more begun, I'm back with my father, but this time there's a serious issue.
So the issue is that despite whatever settings I have on the game (Minimal settings, default resource pack; Maximum settings, custom server resource pack), I always have the same FPS. Now typically this wouldn't be a problem, however before I moved back with my dad for this school year I had 200+ FPS. Now, it's a maximum of 25 FPS.
I don't know what's wrong, seriously. I've reinstalled Minecraft and uninstalled the program I suspected to have screwed it up (Windows Phone App), but still nothing works. And what makes it freakier is that any other game runs fine, so that makes me suspect that possibly Java is corrupt. Reinstalling Java is the only thing I have not tried. I will do that if I am recommended to. I've run scans for viruses, cleaned up my hard drive for cluttered files, and I defragment my system every night. I'm out of options, and I have no clue what the issue is. Could somebody please help?
Don't, it's a bad idea.
Minecraft is most likely using your i5's integrated graphics. Right-click on the Minecraft Launcher, go to Run With Graphics Processor, then click on High-Performance Nvidia Graphics Processor. It's something along those lines and it should fix your problem.
Won't let me. Here's the error message I get, it used to be very common for me until the new launcher came out.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Rename your .minecraft folder then try again.
In your profile setings make sure ram is set to 1G or 1012m less
make sure you only have one vesrion of java.
uninstall java restart your pc then install again.
Aye, I do have Windows 7. However, when trying to set javaw.exe to Realtime, it does not allow it, and instead sets the priority to high. I have also made sure Java is on 64-bit, but still nothing works. Setting the graphics lower increases the frame rate by +10 or so, but I'm still looking to get my old constant of 200+ back.
Alright, so strange deal with this problem... I figured out that the smaller the window Minecraft runs in, the higher the frame rate. It's really weird. Any possibilities on how I could get it running on full screen like it does in a small window?
Alright, so strange deal with this problem... I figured out that the smaller the window Minecraft runs in, the higher the frame rate. It's really weird. Any possibilities on how I could get it running on full screen like it does in a small window?
That isn't wierd at all. Your GPU is tasked with drawing all the pixels in whatever area of the screen you're running it in. Smaller window=less pixels for Minecraft=less pixels your GPU has to draw per frame=less time GPU takes on each frame=more fps.
If you want to replicate that effect in fullscreen, the only real way to do it is to lock your resolution at some low number inside your GPU control panel, which I wouldn't recommend since it screws up all the other visuals like your UI.
I hate to say this, but there's an error in your response. See, before I moved I could run the thing full screen and have better FPS than a tiny window. I didn't lower my resolution or anything, it just suddenly changed after the move. All I know is before I moved I hooked my new Windows phone into the computer, and that my Internet connection is considerably slower because of my location. Those are the only two things.
What I described, that only happens when your GPU is the bottleneck in the system. I have the exact situation, where running in fullscreen gives me higher fps. That's because my GPU is quite strong, a GTX 670, and running in a window means that it has to do more separate objects like elements of the UI which decreases its performance. However, if you have or are running Minecraft off of a weaker GPU (like your i5's integrated graphics), then Minecraft will be its major task that it will spend most of the time on. That will cause what I described earlier.
If you've recently moved your computer then you could have nudged your graphics card out of place, maybe try re-seating it and see if that helps. If you know what your doing that is, I'd hate to see you break your computer completely!
Nope, shouldn't happen. If there was even a slight connection problem, the graphics card just shouldn't work at all. Otherwise, it should work to it's full capability. The only situation that I can think of that may have similar effects is if you somehow accidentally nudged out the graphics card exactly so that it's only running in PCIe x2 or PCIe x1, but that is extremely hard and I have never heard of it actually happening.
However, what could be possible is that the graphics card fan is getting clogged with dust from the air. In that case, just blow it out with a can of compressed air.
I would be glad to check, but I don't really think Alienware computers are made for any form of disassembly. That doesn't happen to explain it, does it? The fact that I have an Alienware?
Yup. Pretty much. Expect it to blow up any moment.
I'm actually being somewhat serious. Alienware crams as much stuff into a space as they can with "adequate" cooling, and make it seem like they have good cooling with cheesy features such as those rotating fins. Also, they use their own unbranded power supply, which will most likely catch fire once a load of more than 850w is put on it. You're probably getting low framerates because your GPU isn't getting enough air.
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Backstory:
Before the school year last year ended, I lived with my father and his relatively bad Internet speed. During the summer, I moved in with my mother, very improved speed. Now that the school year has once more begun, I'm back with my father, but this time there's a serious issue.
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Computer Information:
Processor: Intel i5-3330, 3.00 GHz
RAM: 6 GB
System Type: 64-bit
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
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Problem:
So the issue is that despite whatever settings I have on the game (Minimal settings, default resource pack; Maximum settings, custom server resource pack), I always have the same FPS. Now typically this wouldn't be a problem, however before I moved back with my dad for this school year I had 200+ FPS. Now, it's a maximum of 25 FPS.
I don't know what's wrong, seriously. I've reinstalled Minecraft and uninstalled the program I suspected to have screwed it up (Windows Phone App), but still nothing works. And what makes it freakier is that any other game runs fine, so that makes me suspect that possibly Java is corrupt. Reinstalling Java is the only thing I have not tried. I will do that if I am recommended to. I've run scans for viruses, cleaned up my hard drive for cluttered files, and I defragment my system every night. I'm out of options, and I have no clue what the issue is. Could somebody please help?
May I ask how to set Java's priority to Realtime? And I just reinstalled Java, didn't do a thing to help.
Won't let me. Here's the error message I get, it used to be very common for me until the new launcher came out.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
In your profile setings make sure ram is set to 1G or 1012m less
make sure you only have one vesrion of java.
uninstall java restart your pc then install again.
Thats what i did to solve the problem for me
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Retired StaffYou have a 64-bit system, correct? Please grab 64-bit Java,
http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Realtime is a bad idea. You should set it to high at the most, since Realtime crashes all other programs that are running.
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That isn't wierd at all. Your GPU is tasked with drawing all the pixels in whatever area of the screen you're running it in. Smaller window=less pixels for Minecraft=less pixels your GPU has to draw per frame=less time GPU takes on each frame=more fps.
If you want to replicate that effect in fullscreen, the only real way to do it is to lock your resolution at some low number inside your GPU control panel, which I wouldn't recommend since it screws up all the other visuals like your UI.
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Nope, shouldn't happen. If there was even a slight connection problem, the graphics card just shouldn't work at all. Otherwise, it should work to it's full capability. The only situation that I can think of that may have similar effects is if you somehow accidentally nudged out the graphics card exactly so that it's only running in PCIe x2 or PCIe x1, but that is extremely hard and I have never heard of it actually happening.
However, what could be possible is that the graphics card fan is getting clogged with dust from the air. In that case, just blow it out with a can of compressed air.
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I'm actually being somewhat serious. Alienware crams as much stuff into a space as they can with "adequate" cooling, and make it seem like they have good cooling with cheesy features such as those rotating fins. Also, they use their own unbranded power supply, which will most likely catch fire once a load of more than 850w is put on it. You're probably getting low framerates because your GPU isn't getting enough air.
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