A word of advice, if you find a spare stick of ram on an old computer, dont be 100% it'll work. Chances are it'll blue screen your computer and you'll think you did something wrong until you realize its a 3 years old stick of Ram XD
Excellent guide, it helped me improve greatly. Now I don't suffer any lag at all, even when I connect to foreign hosted servers that are nearing their max connection.
I was convinced my MacBook Pro (2009 model) ran Minecraft like a dog - a handful of FPS at best. Turns out, SSD disks are terrible for running Minecraft - the game needs to write out blocks rapidly, and SSDs are terrible at writing.
My solution - only run your laptop as a multiplayer client. Do all the heavy lifting on your main computer (a PC in my case).
Run a server on your desktop PC or other machine with good disk performance. Run in offline mode to avoid any 'invalid server key' problems, you're just connecting on your local wifi network.
Connect your laptop in Multiplayer mode to this computer - behold, amazing FPS. Your laptop does not touch its own disk at all.
For best results on a 64bit Mac, force Minecraft to run in 64bit mode. The game itself will tell you this if you try and enable view distance = Far and you're not set up correctly.
I was convinced my MacBook Pro (2009 model) ran Minecraft like a dog - a handful of FPS at best. Turns out, SSD disks are terrible for running Minecraft - the game needs to write out blocks rapidly, and SSDs are terrible at writing.
My solution - only run your laptop as a multiplayer client. Do all the heavy lifting on your main computer (a PC in my case).
Run a server on your desktop PC or other machine with good disk performance. Run in offline mode to avoid any 'invalid server key' problems, you're just connecting on your local wifi network.
Connect your laptop in Multiplayer mode to this computer - behold, amazing FPS. Your laptop does not touch its own disk at all.
For best results on a 64bit Mac, force Minecraft to run in 64bit mode. The game itself will tell you this if you try and enable view distance = Far and you're not set up correctly.
Nice tip. I'll add it in in a few days, busy with other stuff and going away for Turkey day. But I thought hdds were bad at that and ssds were good?
Heres a solution i came up with myself i was the first one to discover this and it WILL work if you run the correct system setup but the setup isnt very common.
anyway the video is in my signature if you want to check it out and add to the first page as i didnt see it already listed
hope it works for you guys! :biggrin.gif:
I already have this in the faq, but i didnt know u could right click it, ill edit it in later, thanks!
oh sorry i didnt see that, is it credit worthy? ^^
ps. the video u posted was posted 2 months after mine and it has like double the views (i may be wrong but im pretty sure i was first to discover this)
anyway nice thread man =]
This problem has been around since the first version of minecraft I think, sorry to say but I doubt you were the first lol. I'll give you credit in the faq for saying you can right-click in.
Thank you very much for this thread. I'll admit it was a bit long and I did not read it, but I briefly looked over it all and I had no idea what the LWJGL was and I read up on that, and updated the OpenAL32.dll to the most recent version which was 70kb larger, and my sound problem seems to be gone!
Before, with my 2600K at 4.0GHz I'd lag terribly at the sight of rain if I decided to sprint, or fly around flowing water I would see my frame rate drop horribly (400+ -> 0 )and I would see the yellow part of the performance pie chart which is "Sound" reach up to 70%.
I've tried many things like setting the affinity of javaw.exe to one CPU Core with little success, changing sound acceleration, un/reinstalling Minecraft, different Operating Systems.. nothing worked. For months!
Now I have updated the .dll and the sound lag issue is completely gone. I cannot describe how thankful I am for this post. I can now enjoy minecraft and all of it's sounds worry free! :biggrin.gif:
I will be directing a few people to this thread and informing them of this fix I have done in hopes to solve their problem as well.
Suprise! In order to get more people to view this guide (as a forum can get confusing to people and you need to constantly check back for changes) I am making a tumblr version of this. Both will be updated at the same time, it's just that some people are more comfortable with tumblr than with a forum.
Here is a solution I came up with. If you have a spare USB Storage Device (at least 2GB or more), you can dedicate it to something called 'ReadyBoost Cache'. What this does is it takes the memory from that Storage device and adds it to your RAM or your page file, thus allowing you to add more memory to Minecraft without having to worry about it eating up memory from other programs to allocate to Minecraft. To do this, simply right click the USB Drive and select ReadyBoost where you can set the amount of memory you wish to dedicate. It boosted my from 29-39 FPS to 49-62 FPS. Hope I helped. :biggrin.gif:
Here is a solution I came up with. If you have a spare USB Storage Device (at least 2GB or more), you can dedicate it to something called 'ReadyBoost Cache'. What this does is it takes the memory from that Storage device and adds it to your RAM or your page file, thus allowing you to add more memory to Minecraft without having to worry about it eating up memory from other programs to allocate to Minecraft. To do this, simply right click the USB Drive and select ReadyBoost where you can set the amount of memory you wish to dedicate. It boosted my from 29-39 FPS to 49-62 FPS. Hope I helped. :biggrin.gif:
I read some where that didn't work. F*CKING LIARS! Cool I'll add it in.
I love this guide, thanks man. Gonna try installing Linux, but before I do that I'm gonna fix the hardware issues on my laptop after christmas (fan is sounding funny, either the bearings on it are gone or it's so clogged up with dust and stuff that it can't turn right; hard drive is apparently at risk of failing at any moment; system stability is a bit bad; want to upgrade RAM and check for bad sectors, if they have any effect).
I've been using Gamebooster for half a year now, and I'm pretty surprised to hear this news from MalwareBytes. Is it possible for Gamebooster to harm my system in any way? Why would they take MalwareBytes' virus databases anyway? Does IOBit have it's own antivirus program or something?
Yeah, IObit has an anti-malware program. And they stole from MalwareBytes' database to implement it into their program. This is just ethics so I don't support them, but their products seem legit. Also Ubuntu has something called "Disk utility" so you can check up on your disk in great details (showing S.M.A.R.T.). If it is failing it'll give you an ETA of how many days till it does.
I have a laggy area in my world that I get 30-40ish FPS, and when I turned OpenGL on, it improved the FPS to 40-50.
But the rest of my world that isn't laggy gets a decrease of FPS from OpenGL being turned on! I get 70-80 in non lag areas but now I get 50-60!
I am very confused now.
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Retired StaffO.o how strange. I guess keep opengl off unless you go into a laggy area
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Retired StaffWoo! always love to hear I helped.
My solution - only run your laptop as a multiplayer client. Do all the heavy lifting on your main computer (a PC in my case).
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Retired StaffNice tip. I'll add it in in a few days, busy with other stuff and going away for Turkey day. But I thought hdds were bad at that and ssds were good?
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Curse PremiumI run my Minecraft from a SSD, although in Windows, and have zero issues at all. It *may* be an OSX and SSD issue though .. unsure on that point.
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Retired StaffI already have this in the faq, but i didnt know u could right click it, ill edit it in later, thanks!
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Retired StaffThis problem has been around since the first version of minecraft I think, sorry to say but I doubt you were the first lol. I'll give you credit in the faq for saying you can right-click in.
Before, with my 2600K at 4.0GHz I'd lag terribly at the sight of rain if I decided to sprint, or fly around flowing water I would see my frame rate drop horribly (400+ -> 0 )and I would see the yellow part of the performance pie chart which is "Sound" reach up to 70%.
I've tried many things like setting the affinity of javaw.exe to one CPU Core with little success, changing sound acceleration, un/reinstalling Minecraft, different Operating Systems.. nothing worked. For months!
Now I have updated the .dll and the sound lag issue is completely gone. I cannot describe how thankful I am for this post. I can now enjoy minecraft and all of it's sounds worry free! :biggrin.gif:
I will be directing a few people to this thread and informing them of this fix I have done in hopes to solve their problem as well.
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Retired Staff@Shadow Awesome :biggrin.gif: spreading the word is what I really want people to do
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Retired StaffCommit the act of genocide on all creepers, Like a boss...
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Retired StaffI read some where that didn't work. F*CKING LIARS! Cool I'll add it in.
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Retired StaffYeah, IObit has an anti-malware program. And they stole from MalwareBytes' database to implement it into their program. This is just ethics so I don't support them, but their products seem legit. Also Ubuntu has something called "Disk utility" so you can check up on your disk in great details (showing S.M.A.R.T.). If it is failing it'll give you an ETA of how many days till it does.
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Retired Staff? Whats does -server -xbash do?