Is Minecraft bad for your PC?

[GAMINGGUY]

My friend wanted me to ask two questions on the forums for him, so here it is.

First of all, minecraft is coded horribly, we all know that. Does this mean it is bad for his computer to run the game?

Second. He has 32Gb of ram and wants to allocate 12 gigs to minecraft, is this bad for his ram?

Thanks guys

[monjessenstein]

A game being coded badly doesn't mean it'll damage your pc, only thing I could think of would be something like corrupting your hard drive. So no, running Minecraft (or really any game for that matter) is not bad for your pc or the components within.

[FloRolf]

No, no. 

[MaxBurty]

'asking for a friend'  and I don't see why Minecraft could harm a system, if it does then there's some serious explaining to do from Mojang.

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 minutes ago, GAMINGGUY said:

First of all, minecraft is coded horribly, we all know that. Does this mean it is bad for his computer to run the game?

Unless the code is actively doing something malicious, like opening every file and overwriting it with "LOLCATS", then no, it's not bad to run the application. In fact, any given application you're running now likely has "bad code" in it. To point, this is an example of elegant (and thus probably good) code, but on a vulnerable system will ruin your day:

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Second. He has 32Gb of ram and wants to allocate 12 gigs to minecraft, is this bad for his ram? 

You can't allocate RAM to an application. The application makes request when it needs more to the OS who will then figure out if the application can use it or not.

[Kdog]

Im not sure what you mean when you say is it bad for the computer. Are you asking if there will be any permanent damage running Minecraft? If so,  no.

As for your second question, 12gb of ram isn't necessary for Minecraft at all. But no, it wouldn't damage his ram.

[Guest]

no Minecraft will not harm your pc 

and you only need to allocate that much ram if your playing modded with 1200 mods I recommend 5GB for vanilla and 8GB for modded for a totally smooth experience.

 

download Minecraft here  https://minecraft.net/en-us/  

[GAMINGGUY]

5 hours ago, MaxBurty said:

'asking for a friend'  and I don't see why Minecraft could harm a system, if it does then there's some serious explaining to do from Mojang.

OK thanks, he said that he's been playing recently and it crashed his PC so he didn't know

 

5 hours ago, Kdog said:

Im not sure what you mean when you say is it bad for the computer. Are you asking if there will be any permanent damage running Minecraft? If so,  no.

As for your second question, 12gb of ram isn't necessary for Minecraft at all. But no, it wouldn't damage his ram.

Thanks 

[PopsicleHustler]

Only thing Minecraft is bad for is your IQ.

[Oliver Murphy]

No!

It only harm your PC if you download from some illegal or malicious website

[SupaKomputa]

3 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Only thing Minecraft is bad for is your IQ.

It will damage your brain that's for sure. Play PUBG instead.

[MaxBurty]

@GAMINGGUY the crashes are most likely related to a hardware fault or some other issue, I'm 99.9% sure that Minecraft is not killing his computer.

[Slottr]

4 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

It will damage your brain that's for sure. Play PUBG instead.

I'm not sure that will help, unless you know Chinese

[Syntaxvgm]

Yes, it's very fattening. Try diet minecraft (terraria) 

[Wh0_Am_1]

13 minutes ago, GAMINGGUY said:

My friend wanted me to ask two questions on the forums for him, so here it is.

First of all, minecraft is coded horribly, we all know that. Does this mean it is bad for his computer to run the game?

Second. He has 32Gb of ram and wants to allocate 12 gigs to minecraft, is this bad for his ram?

Thanks guys

It's only bad if he has an improperly cooled CPU or GPU, (even worse if  it is old  and improperly cooled), in which case any real workload will be an issue, otherwise there is no problem. (P.S. when they say that Minecraft is horribly coded, they mean that the program is inefficient, thereby demanding more powerful hardware than it otherwise should) 

[GAMINGGUY]

34 minutes ago, MaxBurty said:

@GAMINGGUY the crashes are most likely related to a hardware fault or some other issue, I'm 99.9% sure that Minecraft is not killing his computer.

OK thanks i'll let him know

[fabarati]

You can allocate more ram to Java, if you're using the Java version. 12 GB is way overkill, unless you're running a shit ton of mods or something. And even then probably. But 8 GB works well, even with a lot of mods.

 

He probably will want to use method 1, if he has the latest version on Java. https://www.wikihow.com/Allocate-More-RAM-to-Minecraft

[Dem0072]

2 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Unless the code is actively doing something malicious, like opening every file and overwriting it with "LOLCATS", then no, it's not bad to run the application. In fact, any given application you're running now likely has "bad code" in it. To point, this is an example of elegant (and thus probably good) code, but on a vulnerable system will ruin your day:

:(){ :|: & };:

You can't allocate RAM to an application. The application makes request when it needs more to the OS who will then figure out if the application can use it or not.

Sort of, yes you can't allocate in the hard physical sense. But Minecraft does run on Java, and the Java applications can be tweaked to set a maximum memory request figure. For instance, specifying this in a batch file when launching an MC server you can tell it to use 512MB, 2GB, 3GB, 8GB, and so on. 

That said, for 12GB he better be inviting dozens of kids to play and running it off a linux server. Otherwise, anything from 2GB - 4GB on a desktop client is extremely generous. And if anything did become a runaway train creeping north to 12, his MC world would probably be on a collision course with a crash. I had to intentionally detonate hundreds of nukes in Tekkit Lite to make that happen, which is intentionally breaking the engine.

[GAMINGGUY]

19 hours ago, Dem0072 said:

Sort of, yes you can't allocate in the hard physical sense. But Minecraft does run on Java, and the Java applications can be tweaked to set a maximum memory request figure. For instance, specifying this in a batch file when launching an MC server you can tell it to use 512MB, 2GB, 3GB, 8GB, and so on. 

That said, for 12GB he better be inviting dozens of kids to play and running it off a linux server. Otherwise, anything from 2GB - 4GB on a desktop client is extremely generous. And if anything did become a runaway train creeping north to 12, his MC world would probably be on a collision course with a crash. I had to intentionally detonate hundreds of nukes in Tekkit Lite to make that happen, which is intentionally breaking the engine.

He has an intensive modpack. He went with 10 Gigs instead of 12? Should he drop it?

[Dem0072]

On 2/7/2019 at 1:47 PM, GAMINGGUY said:

He has an intensive modpack. He went with 10 Gigs instead of 12? Should he drop it?

If it's intensive (like All the Mods) probably not. But you're talking to the wrong person for intensive MC mods. I'm one of those irritated fans that just wants them to bring the old Tekkit Lite pack of like 90 mods (instead of the bloated packs with over 200 of them) up to a MC core version of like 1.7 or 1.12. I have no problems with the mods, I just find the old core to be boring with biome content and NPCs.

Minecraft *can* use beyond 8GB for client, and for server. If someone wants to go there, they can. I just don't find it to be as rewarding to do so with how good Tekkit Lite's been to me.

[Wormhole]

Minecraft will burnout the CPU with a million frames, not worth it tbh.

[GAMINGGUY]

15 hours ago, Wormhole said:

Minecraft will burnout the CPU with a million frames, not worth it tbh.

oh big oof