See Minecraft Running On A Computer That Costs $35

9 responses to “See Minecraft Running On A Computer That Costs $35”

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   Spruppet

   February 13, 2013 at 11:36 am

   I wonder how there getting the Java build to manage memory sensibly. Minecraft nukes my computer with 3GB of ram (linux, using Sun’s linux)

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      weresmurf

      February 13, 2013 at 12:24 pm

      It’s wierd. Minecraft seems to be one of the *worst* optimised games I’ve ever seen, right behind Crysis and Daikatana. I’ve seen it on i7’s, 16gb ram and ssd primary drive, rocking dual 660s getting a shit framerate lol. Yet on my i5 with a 460 and 8gb ram? Smoother than a babies butt. Both running 64bit win7.

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         Jake

         February 13, 2013 at 12:51 pm

         Same here. Mine runs like crap.

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         joel

         February 13, 2013 at 12:58 pm

         By default, Minecraft won’t use more than about 500mb of ram. It also won’t recognise dual video cards and will only use one. With my GTX560ti and more ram allocated to Minecraft I get over 300fps in vanilla.

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            weresmurf

            February 13, 2013 at 1:03 pm

            Thats about what I get, I think with FRAPS it showed I was on around 260 or 270 in vanilla.

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   2. 

      germinalconsequence

      February 14, 2013 at 1:00 am

      He mentions that it’s similar to the Pocket Edition of Minecraft so it’s probably adapted from the one that was designed to run on Smart Phones (Especially since the Pi runs Arm architecture). Given the specs of the Pi, it’s less powerful than most modern smart phones, but a little more powerful than those when Minecraft PE first came out. Still, Minecraft seems to be like the anti-Crysis. How low power can we go before it can’t run it?

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   Spruppet

   February 13, 2013 at 11:37 am

   *Oracle’s. Oops

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   gamerjunkie

   February 13, 2013 at 11:42 am

   Mainly I want to know how this is running almost better than the 360 version?

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4. 

   bangers

   February 13, 2013 at 12:27 pm

   Better framerate than my ‘good’ computer.

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