Why is minecraft so slow?

[Guest]

So when I play minecraft it takes about 4 minutes to start and 2 minutes to load a texture pack. On my old computer that was a piece of garbage it started in under 30 seconds and loaded a texture pack in under 10 seconds. Sometimes the text in game looks messed as well because it's not loading it fast enough. Is there a way to fix this?

[DoubleY]

Can we see a screen shot example? We have decently similar specs and I don't have the same issue 

[DoubleY]

how do i take a screenshot?

In Minecraft? F2. 

 

In general? There are multiple ways 

[jscho]

how do i take a screenshot?

 

The Print Screen key on your keyboard (it's up near Scroll Lock) or F2 in Minecraft.

[DoubleY]

Well, the f2 doesn't work on the main menu. 

Then use this method:

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Screenshots-in-Windows-8

[DoubleY]

Print screen isn't doing anything.

It should copy an image to your clipboard. Go into Paint and hit control+v. The image should appear 

[yurihellsing]

Well, the f2 doesn't work on the main menu. 

 

look in "C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\screenshots  after pressing F2

[jscho]

Print screen isn't doing anything.

 

You have to paste it into Paint or something. It copies the screenshot to your clipboard (where text and images go when you cut or copy/paste things)

[tp95112]

Iv notice how in 1.7 loading resource packs like Sphax has been very slow without having to use mcpatcher.

[DoubleY]

Here

Do you have video card drivers and/or MCpatcher/Optifine installed? If not, get one of the two. It helps with Texture Packs 

[NerdNinja]

Do you have video card drivers and/or MCpatcher/Optifine installed? If not, get one of the two. It helps with Texture Packs 

 

I'd recommend optifine

[nixproducer]

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that happens to me sometimes to and it also depends on what bit texture pack you are using 

[NerdNinja]

driver issue? thats my best guess. either that or a virus

[NerdNinja]

A virus?

 

Not to get you worried but it could be somthing like bloatware, malware etc. that slows down your computer if the slowness is just bound to MC that it's highly unlikely. I;m just throwing ideas around.

 

Edit: I'm not the smartest when it comes to pc's so lets see what others have to say

[NerdNinja]

And if this was the problem, how would i fix it?

 

Depends. Viruses can be tricky. I'd give you an answer but I feel that I would give you false info so I'm gonna let somebody else say. I'm not exactly a genius with PC's quite yet.

 

But for a start do you have an antivirus? if so what?

[NerdNinja]

I have avast, but it says there's no problem.

 

Well the issue might be completely unrelated to a virus then.

 

I honestly have no other ideas. Sorry I couldn't help much but it's late here and I'm going to sleep. Maybe I can think of something in the morning.

[ohJey]

using 64 bit java?

Did you allocate more RAM?

latest drivers?

[Guest]

It's a texture pack

[Redicat]

its a java coded game so it needs to load all the scripts and stuff it does use alot of cpu and ram