Minecraft RAM help

[RGBisKey]

Hi all, so during some minecraft the other day I noticed that the game is only using 2GB of my memory. I have 8GB of DDR3 RAM @1600MHz installed in my computer so why is minecraft only using 2GB? I have an i5 4460 @3.20GHz and a GTX 1060 6GB version and I get around 40 fps in game with all settings maxed. I'm positive I should be getting more performance from this. PLEASE HELP!! Thank you

[Guest]

Cause that's all it needs?? My kids play it all the time, I've never bothered to look for this information. I become curious now.....

[minibois]

4 minutes ago, RGBisKey said:

Hi all, so during some minecraft the other day I noticed that the game is only using 2GB of my memory. I have 8GB of DDR3 RAM @1600MHz installed in my computer so why is minecraft only using 2GB? I have an i5 4460 @3.20GHz and a GTX 1060 6GB version and I get around 40 fps in game with all settings maxed. I'm positive I should be getting more performance from this. PLEASE HELP!! Thank you

If you feel like it needs more memory (which unmodded Mincraft apparently doesn't), you can change a setting:

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1. Open your Minecraft client (Java version).
2. Select the Installations tab towards the top of the launcher.
3. Hover over your desired profile/Minecraft version, then select the button with the three dots on the right.
4. Select Edit from the drop-down menu. A modal will appear and More Options will be available in the bottom-left. Select this.
5. In the "JVM arguments" field, change -Xmx1G  to -Xmx#G , replace # with the amount of RAM you'd like to allocate to Minecraft in GB (do not modify any other text).
6. Select the green Save button and you're done!

https://cubedhost.com/help/en/articles/1648388-how-do-i-allocate-more-memory-to-my-minecraft-launcher-client-side

[lakishaa99]

Reason why u have 40fps is maybe chunks,more chunks more cpu load,try to lower it a bit and see difference.

[RGBisKey]

2 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

Because it's running in a Java VM which the devs have allocated it to 2gb. That's all it needs, but you can modify launch code to allocate it more.

Well then what could be the reason for my low performance? I'm sure my rig should be getting more than 40fps??

[RGBisKey]

4 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Cause that's all it needs?? My kids play it all the time, I've never bothered to look for this information. I become curious now.....

I never noticed until recently. Pretty interesting if you ask me

[manikyath]

cranking settings.. for that cpu.. 40fps sounds about right.

if you insist, you can adjust allocation somewhere in the launcher (cant tell you where, i dont use the official launcher)

 

protip for making minecraft actually run properly: set your viewing distance to 8-10 chunks, any more is a hilareous amount of diminishing returns.

[RGBisKey]

1 minute ago, NZgamer said:

It really depends what settings you're on

Okay. Just figured that an okay CPU and a 1060 would be able to handle maxing them out

[Guest]

1 minute ago, RGBisKey said:

Okay. Just figured that an okay CPU and a 1060 would be able to handle maxing them out

I agree, It's very basic texture detail even on 4K? Would think 200 FPS would be EASY ? ? ?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, RGBisKey said:

Okay. Just figured that an okay CPU and a 1060 would be able to handle maxing them out

what's your render distance set to?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

I agree, It's very basic texture detail even on 4K? Would think 200 FPS would be EASY

welcome, to java.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

cranking settings..

Is this modded settings? (my kids don't do the mods for some reason....) 

 

whatcha mean by cranked up? What's there to crank up haha?

[lakishaa99]

I just cranked setting to max even chunks and in game i get approx 70-80fps

 

PC specs 

Intel Core i5 4570 

Ram 16gb ddr3 1600mhz dual channel

Rx570 4gb

Win 10pro

[RGBisKey]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

I agree, It's very basic texture detail even on 4K? Would think 200 FPS would be EASY ? ? ?

Right??

[RGBisKey]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

what's your render distance set to?

I did have it maxed but I dropped it down to 20. I'm getting about 110 fps with that

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Is this modded settings? (my kids don't do the mods for some reason....) 

 

whatcha mean by cranked up? What's there to crank up haha?

primarily.. render distance is the biggest pain.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

welcome, to java.

ooohhhh. I didn't know it was java!! (we have several game systems. I want to believe they use a console, so this may be why my ignorance.)

[RGBisKey]

1 minute ago, lakishaa99 said:

I just cranked setting to max even chunks and in game i get approx 70-80fps

 

PC specs 

Intel Core i5 4570 

Ram 16gb ddr3 1600mhz dual channel

Rx570 4gb

Win 10pro

CPU clock speed?

[lakishaa99]

Its a non K so its a 3.2 turbo 3.6

[Guest]

50% loss to current gen IPC easy.