Hello,
My lad loves his minecraft but after a recent update his 8800GTX could not render the game anymore (OpenGL or CL or something) and the E6600 was weak.
He decided he wanted to update his computer so he could get back into Minecraft and other PC games.
We bought these for his computer:
i3 2100
Asus H61M-A
Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz
R7 260x 2GB GDDR5
Minecraft plays a lot better but going by GPU-z the graphics card is not being used at all.
People on youtube using both lower spec ATI and Nvidia cards are running around with 200+ FPS where as this computer is getting 70FPS and dropping down to 20FPS when moving about quickly.
When turning the block distance up, it complete messes up the game.
I have changed the GPU/onboard setting in the Bios to PCI-e. Downloaded something called 3dmark and got 3777? (not got a clue what this score actually means). The first few tests looked fine and quick but when i got to the end where some fire bloke was fighting a see-through women, the FPS was awful.
Anyone know how to make Minecraft/Java use the GPU? Any more settings i should look at?
I will note, the system is using a old HD (180GB 5400RPM Sata), could this be a problem? The system had a fresh OS install after updating the hardware (windows 7)
My lad loves his minecraft but after a recent update his 8800GTX could not render the game anymore (OpenGL or CL or something) and the E6600 was weak.
He decided he wanted to update his computer so he could get back into Minecraft and other PC games.
We bought these for his computer:
i3 2100
Asus H61M-A
Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz
R7 260x 2GB GDDR5
Minecraft plays a lot better but going by GPU-z the graphics card is not being used at all.
People on youtube using both lower spec ATI and Nvidia cards are running around with 200+ FPS where as this computer is getting 70FPS and dropping down to 20FPS when moving about quickly.
When turning the block distance up, it complete messes up the game.
I have changed the GPU/onboard setting in the Bios to PCI-e. Downloaded something called 3dmark and got 3777? (not got a clue what this score actually means). The first few tests looked fine and quick but when i got to the end where some fire bloke was fighting a see-through women, the FPS was awful.
Anyone know how to make Minecraft/Java use the GPU? Any more settings i should look at?
I will note, the system is using a old HD (180GB 5400RPM Sata), could this be a problem? The system had a fresh OS install after updating the hardware (windows 7)
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