14 December 2016

How To Optimize Your Minecraft FPS

Posted by Abirama on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 in , | No comments
Minecraft Screenshot

If you have a low-end pc and you can't live without games. Minecraft, is probably the best choice. Minecraft is a great game, you can build everything you can imagine. But sadly, you need more than a low-end pc to run Minecraft at a playable and decent fps (60 fps). I didn't have a good pc but I can run Minecraft  in 60 fps and more. If you didn't care so much about your Minecraft fps and decided to leave it at 50 fps or lower, then this article is not for you.

UPDATE JAVA
Now I'm gonna show you how to optimize or improve your Minecraft experience. The first thing you should do is to check if your java was up to date. Because Minecraft runs on Java, so any issues with the general Java installation and version on your computer will bleed through and cause troubles with Minecraft ranging from decreased FPS to outright failure to run.

First, if you’re running a 64-bit computer/operating system (many computers these days are 64-bit) you want to run the 64-bit version of Java. If you’re unsure, check the system settings of your machine.

Windows users can open a command prompt and type in:

wmic os get OSArchitecture

 The returned value will indicate if the OS is 32 or 64-bit.

Second, make sure that version is up-to-date. As of the time of this publication, Java 7 is the general release of Java. You can run Java 8 to squeeze out even more performance.

Third, ensure you only have one copy of Java installed. Many Minecraft players report issues when there are multiple copies of Java (older versions alongside newer versions, 32-bit alongside 64-bit, etc.) on their machines.

OPTIFINE
What is Optifine? Optifine is an optional content pack, called a "mod". There are different ways to install these, so look them up on the optifine. What it does is it boosts your framerate, and adds features like zooming in on places, and also super-longer render distances (How far you can see). 

To download Optifine, visit this link: https://optifine.net/downloads 

Make sure you click the latest version of Minecraft supported by Optifine (currently 1.8.4), Optifine won't always have the latest version of Minecraft compatible, so just download the latest version available.

Next click Download, you will sadly be taken to an ADF.ly link, so make sure your cookies are turned on otherwise it won't work, and make sure you don't click any of the adverts on the page but as long as you click Skip Ad then you'll be ok. You have to wait 5 seconds and then the Skip Ad button will appear in the top right corner of the webpage.

Once you've clicked Skip Ad then click the text surrounded by adverts (unless you have Ad block Plus which will remove these adverts) to download the file. Run the install once the download has finished and then you're done!

Now open up the Minecraft launcher, once the launcher has opened go to the bottom left corner and click the drop down arrow. In the drop down menu make sure you select the Profile Optifine. Once that's done click Play to start the game and configure the settings.

Once the game launches then click Options on the starting screen. In Options click Video settings and you'll notice that loads of new settings have appeared.

If everything is set, you may want to lowering the setting to get the 60 fps or more. 
This is a list of the recommended settings in Minecraft:

Graphics: Fast
Smooth Lighting: Off
GUI Scale: Auto (for normal display) or Small to get higher fps
Brightness: Bright or Dark - it's your preference!
Fog: Off
3D Anaglyph: Off
Render Distance: 4-8
Max Framerate: Unlimited
View Bobbing: Off or On - it's once again your preference
Use VBOs: On

And that's it in the main Video Settings screen, now for the other settings:

Details:

Select Default for everything with the Default option
Turn Clouds Off
Turn off anything else that is turned On

Animations:

Click the All Off button for the best performance.

Quality:

Mipmap Levels: Off
Anisotrophic Filtering: Off
Antialisiasing: Off
Mipmap Type: Nearest
Then turn everything On, Off to get best performance.

Performance:

Smooth FPS: On
Fast Render: On
Chunk Updates: 1
Lazy Chunk Loading: Off
Smooth World: Off unless you play a lot of Single Player
Fast Math: On
Dynamic Updates: On

Other:

Autosave: 30min
Then turn everything On, Off for best performance.

Finally click Done to save all the settings you have just changed, this should boost your fps from anywhere between 20-100+ fps.

Next to test your settings. Go to Single Player and create a New world. Once the world has been created click the button F3 on your keyboard to show the fps of your game. If you're on a laptop you may need to press Shift + F3.

If lowering settings doesn't work, try to close all the programs that running in the background on your PC. Programs like Skype, your Antivirus, a web browser, music/video players and email applications will all slow your PC down and therefore slow your game down. To improve performance try closing these programs, but NEVER close your antivirus software because then you're unprotected. If you have a antivirus like Norton Internet Security or another antivirus that has a similar function, you can right click the icon in the notification area of the Windows taskbar and select Turn on silent mode or gaming mode (names may vary depending on your antivirus). Make sure you haven't just minimized the window, or allowed the program to go into the hidden icon menu in Windows (bottom right of the Windows taskbar). Completely close the program by clicking the cross in the top right hand corner of the Window.

Another way to boost fps is by using the Windows Task Manager. First make sure Minecraft is running in the background (open/running). Then open the Windows Task Manager, to open the Task Manager click Ctrl + Alt + Delete on your Keyboard at the same time. Then click Start Task Manager. In the Task Manager right click on Minecraft and select Go to process, the process will now be highlighted and will be called javaw.exe. There are actually 2 of these processes, firstly right click on the un-highlighted javaw.exe and select End process, this will close the process. The second javaw.exe is actually not required to play Minecraft and is just wasting your RAM. Next go back to the first javaw.exe, right click it and select Set priority, then choose high in the menu. A new window will appear saying "Do you want to change the priority of javaw.exe"? In this new window click Change priority.

Finally for the last fps boosting tip. This tip requires you to close your game and re-open the launcher. In the launcher you need to go to the bottom left corner and click Edit Profile. In the new window tick the JVM Arguments tick box. This allows you to allocate more RAM to Minecraft. So make sure you don't allocate more the 80% of your RAM! Now in the textbox next to the tick box remove the 1 from the Xmx1G and change it to a higher number (about 50% of your RAM), e.g. if you have 8GB of RAM change it to 4G. Then click Save Profile and click Play to test it out. If your game doesn't work after this step, try rebooting your game and if that doesn't work then try reducing the allocated RAM.

That's how you optimize your Minecraft fps. If the tutorial that I just give you doesn't work. Try yo download other application or mods that can optimize your Minecraft experience, like Minecraft tweaker, Game Booster,  and BetterFps. Anyway, thanks for reading and if you still have some problems. Just leave it in the comment and I'll try to help you.

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