I am having problems with my AMD ASUS ROG Strix RX 470 GPU. It's an amazing card for the other games I play such as CS GO max settings and Dirt 3 max settings, however strangely it does not perform well in Minecraft. In MSI Afterburner, the GPU usage is often arround 10%, sometimes it spikes to 100% but it's very rare. Even the Core Clock speed doesn't go to the max, it's really strange, like if minecraft told the GPU that it's not a 3D game and it does not require much ressources, so that it would save power by downclocking, but I still have low framerate. (arround 150 in a superflat world and 70 in a normal empty world) Of course, those framerates are acceptable, but in my server with my friends, there's tons of complicated redstone circuits and such things, so the framerate can be as bad as 10-30 FPS. Even my old Nvidia Quadro 2000 did perform better in this game. I tried for hours to solve the problem in the Minecraft graphics options, tried Optifine, tried java arguments with ram and such and I even tried to use the latest 64 bits version of Java instead of the built-in 32 bits one. Of course, all the graphics drivers are up to date, same thing for the AMD Crimson software. When playing my cpu goes up to 30% max, so no bottleneck, and I have 12 GB of ram, which is plenty enough for this game. I really don't know what to do from now, if somebody had a similar problem in the past or know how to fix it, please respond!
minecraft is not gpu dependent so you can have a titan x and it would not change your performance in minecraft. Minecraft is cpu dependent so you would notice a difference between a icore5 and a icore7
Although Minecraft is not nearly as GPU dependent as games like the Witcher III, it still relies on the GPU to render the game.
What you're experiencing sounds like the GPU is not selected to be used for the game. Sometimes the computer decides the integrated graphics are 'good enough' for minecraft and you may still experience relatively good framerates in an offline game. I have more experience with NVidia than with Radeon but it is something worthwhile to look into. I imagine Radeon has a settings menu where you should be able to do select program/game specific settings. Minecraft may appear as an instance of Java so look out for that. In-game, F3 should list your GPU in the top right of the game.
Another thing to note is that if your network connectivity is bad or the server can't handle the load your game is putting on it, you may get lag as a result of this. Check to see if your ping is low (your connection is bad) and ask your friends if they're experiencing the same things (the server can't handle the load).
Hopefully someone else can give you more Radeon specific advice than myself but I agree with you that you should not be experiencing the low framerates that you have been.
Thanks for the reply! As stated before, the cpu doesn't go over 30%, so can it still be the problem?
Also, in the F3 menu, under display, it says "Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics", and I think my motherboard doesn't even have integrated graphics, because there is no graphics io ports on it, and no option in my bios. (Fyi, my computer is a Dell T5500 Workstation, with the Xeon X5647 CPU, so it is a Dell server board) Furthermore, the problem occurs as much as on my server than on local worlds, so the internet connectivity isn't the problem unfortunately.
Anyone else?
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Hi,
I am having problems with my AMD ASUS ROG Strix RX 470 GPU. It's an amazing card for the other games I play such as CS GO max settings and Dirt 3 max settings, however strangely it does not perform well in Minecraft. In MSI Afterburner, the GPU usage is often arround 10%, sometimes it spikes to 100% but it's very rare. Even the Core Clock speed doesn't go to the max, it's really strange, like if minecraft told the GPU that it's not a 3D game and it does not require much ressources, so that it would save power by downclocking, but I still have low framerate. (arround 150 in a superflat world and 70 in a normal empty world) Of course, those framerates are acceptable, but in my server with my friends, there's tons of complicated redstone circuits and such things, so the framerate can be as bad as 10-30 FPS. Even my old Nvidia Quadro 2000 did perform better in this game. I tried for hours to solve the problem in the Minecraft graphics options, tried Optifine, tried java arguments with ram and such and I even tried to use the latest 64 bits version of Java instead of the built-in 32 bits one. Of course, all the graphics drivers are up to date, same thing for the AMD Crimson software. When playing my cpu goes up to 30% max, so no bottleneck, and I have 12 GB of ram, which is plenty enough for this game. I really don't know what to do from now, if somebody had a similar problem in the past or know how to fix it, please respond!
Thank you very much for your time!
Cheers,
Vince
minecraft is not gpu dependent so you can have a titan x and it would not change your performance in minecraft. Minecraft is cpu dependent so you would notice a difference between a icore5 and a icore7
I'm going to have to disagree with Thedalek4330
Although Minecraft is not nearly as GPU dependent as games like the Witcher III, it still relies on the GPU to render the game.
What you're experiencing sounds like the GPU is not selected to be used for the game. Sometimes the computer decides the integrated graphics are 'good enough' for minecraft and you may still experience relatively good framerates in an offline game. I have more experience with NVidia than with Radeon but it is something worthwhile to look into. I imagine Radeon has a settings menu where you should be able to do select program/game specific settings. Minecraft may appear as an instance of Java so look out for that. In-game, F3 should list your GPU in the top right of the game.
Another thing to note is that if your network connectivity is bad or the server can't handle the load your game is putting on it, you may get lag as a result of this. Check to see if your ping is low (your connection is bad) and ask your friends if they're experiencing the same things (the server can't handle the load).
Hopefully someone else can give you more Radeon specific advice than myself but I agree with you that you should not be experiencing the low framerates that you have been.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply! As stated before, the cpu doesn't go over 30%, so can it still be the problem?
Also, in the F3 menu, under display, it says "Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics", and I think my motherboard doesn't even have integrated graphics, because there is no graphics io ports on it, and no option in my bios. (Fyi, my computer is a Dell T5500 Workstation, with the Xeon X5647 CPU, so it is a Dell server board) Furthermore, the problem occurs as much as on my server than on local worlds, so the internet connectivity isn't the problem unfortunately.
Anyone else?