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]
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