Basically, my fps hovers around 60 (perfectly acceptable) but dips into the 30-40 range seemingly randomly. Even when I'm at 60, the game feels choppy, and I can't record videos anymore.
Being a longtime Minecraft player, I've previously followed the typical steps to increase fps—fast graphics, allocating more RAM, closing noisy programs that run in the background. I even tried out an 8x8 resource pack, but that didn't do much. I remember when I first got this computer (2012 or 2013), I ran Minecraft in the 200-300 fps range (I think I hit 400 once, but I can't be certain). So, naturally, I downloaded the version of the game from that time to see if new features caused a problem for my computer. Nope, maxed out at 70ish fps on 1.2.5.
My GPU is a GT 620, and I know it's about time to upgrade. But I don't think that its performance has dropped to 20% of what it originally could do. Is it reasonable to think that the GPU is slower after 5-6 years, or that I have some other issue (malware? I don't think so, but I can't trust Malwarebytes to protect from literally everything)?
Thanks a lot to anyone who takes the time to respond, I'm sure there's a constant flow of "pls help my fps sucks" and maybe (hopefully!) my question is stupidly simple.
EDIT: Will update with things I've done/am trying.
Memory usage: this stays at 20% or less usually. Never spikes up that I've noticed, and it was one thing I watched carefully while trying to determine what the problem was.
Optifine lagometer: there are orange, white, and sometimes blue spikes that occur during lag. Orange is listed as memory garbage collection, blue as scheduled executables. White isn't listed but is the most common. I'll attach a screenshot here.
Oh, and when I join a server, there's initial lag that gradually gets more consistent. It takes a few minutes before it stops dropping to ~20 fps every couple seconds, but even then it drops pretty often.
Post a screenshot with F3 enabled and your JVM arguments.
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Basically, my fps hovers around 60 (perfectly acceptable) but dips into the 30-40 range seemingly randomly. Even when I'm at 60, the game feels choppy, and I can't record videos anymore.
Being a longtime Minecraft player, I've previously followed the typical steps to increase fps—fast graphics, allocating more RAM, closing noisy programs that run in the background. I even tried out an 8x8 resource pack, but that didn't do much. I remember when I first got this computer (2012 or 2013), I ran Minecraft in the 200-300 fps range (I think I hit 400 once, but I can't be certain). So, naturally, I downloaded the version of the game from that time to see if new features caused a problem for my computer. Nope, maxed out at 70ish fps on 1.2.5.
My GPU is a GT 620, and I know it's about time to upgrade. But I don't think that its performance has dropped to 20% of what it originally could do. Is it reasonable to think that the GPU is slower after 5-6 years, or that I have some other issue (malware? I don't think so, but I can't trust Malwarebytes to protect from literally everything)?
Thanks a lot to anyone who takes the time to respond, I'm sure there's a constant flow of "pls help my fps sucks" and maybe (hopefully!) my question is stupidly simple.
EDIT: Will update with things I've done/am trying.
Memory usage: this stays at 20% or less usually. Never spikes up that I've noticed, and it was one thing I watched carefully while trying to determine what the problem was.
Optifine lagometer: there are orange, white, and sometimes blue spikes that occur during lag. Orange is listed as memory garbage collection, blue as scheduled executables. White isn't listed but is the most common. I'll attach a screenshot here.
Oh, and when I join a server, there's initial lag that gradually gets more consistent. It takes a few minutes before it stops dropping to ~20 fps every couple seconds, but even then it drops pretty often.
Post a screenshot with F3 enabled and your JVM arguments.