Ive been playing minecraft for 13 years or so [stopped counting on 13] (started playing the og versions in 2010) and lately Ive been stuck playing older version because 1.17+ lags my PC like HELL, even at 2 render distance and no smooth lighting, tho its odd that my PC can run ark with 60 FPS (OG), not to mention minecraft is in no way a taxing game on the PC…
here are my pecs (I give minecraft 10GB of ram to work with):
CPU Model: Intel® Core™ i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU Info: Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
any idea on what to do ? [IM NOT THAT OLD IM 18]
minecraft is more dependent on the ram and cpu and this is pretty uncommon, you should try bedrock, it is very well optimized compared to java.
You need sodium. It’s a major game changer. It’s one of those things that once you have it, you can’t believe you didn’t have it before. And here’s why.
Sodium comes with Entity Culling enabled by default. This makes it so only things you’re actually looking at are rendered for viewing. Minecraft suffers from the most criminal optimization of any game running (that I know of). It sucks that it takes a mod to do it, but install sodium and it’ll change your experience.
If modern Minecraft runs that poorly, there’s probably something else slowing things down.
I have a i7-4770k with a GTX 970, and it ran the Java game just fine on reasonable settings without any performance enhancing mods.
If you don’t already have one, an SSD is a must for any computer in my opinion. It will absolutely improve every aspect of the machine (except performance of GPU-intensive games)
try bedrock edition if you are able to buy it, for double fps
Try bedrock edition. On java I had 8 render distance with 20 fps and on bedrock I have over 20 render distance and 60 smooth fps
Hmm, my son’s PC is similar, even an older CPU, same GPU and runs the current version just fine with render distance up fairly high and no performance mods. It shouldn’t need 10GB, that is overkill. (I think his machine is set for 2GB min, 6GB max or something similar).
Of note, there is some weirdness with NVidia drivers in some releases. I use Prism Launcher, which then masks the Minecraft version so the NVidia driver doesn’t know what release it is. This fixes something, but I can’t recall what.
There are also some notes, depending on launcher, that sometimes Minecraft won’t actually use your GPU due to conflicts with the on-board GPU. Some workarounds are required similar to: https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher/issues/444
I couldn’t figure out how to use the information you gave me about playing Minecraft for 13 years.