I don't have a high end gaming PC that cost 27 bajillion dollars. That would be a waste of money. I have a crappy laptop from Best Buy. It works fine, and I like it. I don't use it for much, mostly school and a few select games that I can run well. Minecraft was one of them. For vanilla, I could kick a consistent 40 frames, 60 without much going on, without too much problem. I had to turn some graphic settings down, but honestly it doesn't really matter when your game is made of cubes that look like they're from a SNES. So I had no problem, up untill last month. The day before, I could have Chrome, Skype, Steam, and Minecraft all running at once with a decent framerate (40 is decent for me). The following morning, I have just Skype and Minecraft open and i'm kicking a solid 3 frames. I turn all the graphics settings to the lowest possible, and I can get at most 8 frames. I checked to see if I have some killer virus somehow, and my antivirus came up with nothing. But computers degrade, so i'm assuming that I just gotta clean it out. Deleted a grand total of 35 thousand files, and it did absolutley nothing. (I used a file shredder, not recycle bin.) I try some other games and see if they're affected. TF2, Portal 2, and Terraria are the 3 I tried, and they all ran the same. I upated Java, and that did nothing. Finally, I back up my saves and servers and re-install the game. Nothing. So the only thing I can get from all this is that I messed something up terribly bad. 4 google searches later, I get a grand total of 0 pointers on what I did. If anyone knows what kind of framerate-killing terrible thing I did wrong, I would appreciate some pointers. And if my computer specs would help, I have them here.
Processor is decent, AMD with 1.80ghz
RAM is pretty good, 8gb
Graphics card is pitiful, AMD Radeon R4 (But I don't really care about it)
And i'm running Windows 10 (which hasn't caused any problems yet, and it's been 10 months)
EDIT: Probably important, yes I know how to dedicate more RAM. I have 3g dedicated to it, and it crashes if I use more.
"And i'm running Windows 10 (which hasn't caused any problems yet)"
this is where the little alarm bell inside of my head starts ringing. have you checked compatibility? are your graphic drivers up-to-date and compatible with win10? most common mistake while upgrading windows.
besides that, i have a little fps boosting guide in my signature (sorry i cant link it now, i'm on my mobile) and there are tons of such guides on the forums
Windows 10 isn't the problem- I've had the upgade since it came out, and it makes it faster to me. I doubt that it would start to cause issues a handful of months down the line.
I'm having the same issue with extreme lag but I'm using windows 8. 1.8 is fine for me but 1.9 is completely unplayable. I have also read the various guides and changed several things but nothing is helping.
The attachment shows a new singleplayer map which, as you can see, also had huge graphics issues.
i doubt that this is the exact same issue, as your attachment is pointing to a graphic driver or opengl issue.please create an own thread for this.
some people solved low fps on win8 by disabling hyperV, but i'm not sure if this also applies to win10.
I have more of a visual representation of my dilemma through this video I made. This was all recorded side-by-side without breaks. It shows my confusion when games like gmod and portal run fine while minecraft seems like someone poured jam into my hard drive.
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you cannot use both your onboard graphics chip and the amd, as far as i know (and if you did, it would probably give you no advantage). don't mistake the processor (which minecraft indeed uses a lot) with the graphics chip (something like "intel hd express").
in some cases, minecraft uses the onboard graphic chip instead of the graphics card, which could explain your fps.
if you have your amd displayed, like in the image below, this is not the cause of the issue.
I don't know what I did. I don't know why I did. But all of a sudden, today, my problem faded away. I'm miraculously now back at 60 frames. the interesting thing is, this isn't the first time it's happened. I'm now investing in a higher-end laptop (even though i'm guessing it'll take me around 4 years to get, I mean $2,000 is a lot of money and not nearly as important as saving for college).
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"When you gotta go, you gotta go" -Ian Malcolm, 1993
I don't know what I did. I don't know why I did. But all of a sudden, today, my problem faded away. I'm miraculously now back at 60 frames. the interesting thing is, this isn't the first time it's happened. I'm now investing in a higher-end laptop (even though i'm guessing it'll take me around 4 years to get, I mean $2,000 is a lot of money and not nearly as important as saving for college).
well... ok, so your laptop was just mad these days? i can go with this xD
I don't have a high end gaming PC that cost 27 bajillion dollars. That would be a waste of money. I have a crappy laptop from Best Buy. It works fine, and I like it. I don't use it for much, mostly school and a few select games that I can run well. Minecraft was one of them. For vanilla, I could kick a consistent 40 frames, 60 without much going on, without too much problem. I had to turn some graphic settings down, but honestly it doesn't really matter when your game is made of cubes that look like they're from a SNES. So I had no problem, up untill last month. The day before, I could have Chrome, Skype, Steam, and Minecraft all running at once with a decent framerate (40 is decent for me). The following morning, I have just Skype and Minecraft open and i'm kicking a solid 3 frames. I turn all the graphics settings to the lowest possible, and I can get at most 8 frames. I checked to see if I have some killer virus somehow, and my antivirus came up with nothing. But computers degrade, so i'm assuming that I just gotta clean it out. Deleted a grand total of 35 thousand files, and it did absolutley nothing. (I used a file shredder, not recycle bin.) I try some other games and see if they're affected. TF2, Portal 2, and Terraria are the 3 I tried, and they all ran the same. I upated Java, and that did nothing. Finally, I back up my saves and servers and re-install the game. Nothing. So the only thing I can get from all this is that I messed something up terribly bad. 4 google searches later, I get a grand total of 0 pointers on what I did. If anyone knows what kind of framerate-killing terrible thing I did wrong, I would appreciate some pointers. And if my computer specs would help, I have them here.
Processor is decent, AMD with 1.80ghz
RAM is pretty good, 8gb
Graphics card is pitiful, AMD Radeon R4 (But I don't really care about it)
And i'm running Windows 10 (which hasn't caused any problems yet, and it's been 10 months)
EDIT: Probably important, yes I know how to dedicate more RAM. I have 3g dedicated to it, and it crashes if I use more.
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Curse Premium"And i'm running Windows 10 (which hasn't caused any problems yet)"
this is where the little alarm bell inside of my head starts ringing. have you checked compatibility? are your graphic drivers up-to-date and compatible with win10? most common mistake while upgrading windows.
besides that, i have a little fps boosting guide in my signature (sorry i cant link it now, i'm on my mobile) and there are tons of such guides on the forums
Windows 10 isn't the problem- I've had the upgade since it came out, and it makes it faster to me. I doubt that it would start to cause issues a handful of months down the line.
"When you gotta go, you gotta go" -Ian Malcolm, 1993
All of them are pretty much the same. Dedicate more RAM, turn down graphics quality, use Optifine, i've read it all.
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Curse Premiumi doubt that this is the exact same issue, as your attachment is pointing to a graphic driver or opengl issue.please create an own thread for this.
some people solved low fps on win8 by disabling hyperV, but i'm not sure if this also applies to win10.
Don't be that guy that posts "I have the same problem" and adds nothing to the thread. Just don't.
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I Googled what HyperV is, and I don't think I should disable it.
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I have more of a visual representation of my dilemma through this video I made. This was all recorded side-by-side without breaks. It shows my confusion when games like gmod and portal run fine while minecraft seems like someone poured jam into my hard drive.
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Curse Premiumi kinda forgot to ask, but are you sure minecraft uses your graphics card, not the onboard chip?
(you can check this in the f3 menu, in the upper reight corner)
It says it's using both? "My processor with my graphis card" is what it says.
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Curse Premiumyou cannot use both your onboard graphics chip and the amd, as far as i know (and if you did, it would probably give you no advantage). don't mistake the processor (which minecraft indeed uses a lot) with the graphics chip (something like "intel hd express").
in some cases, minecraft uses the onboard graphic chip instead of the graphics card, which could explain your fps.
if you have your amd displayed, like in the image below, this is not the cause of the issue.
I don't know what I did. I don't know why I did. But all of a sudden, today, my problem faded away. I'm miraculously now back at 60 frames. the interesting thing is, this isn't the first time it's happened. I'm now investing in a higher-end laptop (even though i'm guessing it'll take me around 4 years to get, I mean $2,000 is a lot of money and not nearly as important as saving for college).
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Curse Premiumwell... ok, so your laptop was just mad these days?
i can go with this xD