Minecraft - Official release date set 11/11/11

[YayMii]

All computers have a problem with Minecraft.

Are you joking?
I'm running Minecraft right now on an i7 980x, and am getting an excess of 800FPS.

And once again, I bring up my 7-year-old PC, with a single core 2.2GHz CPU and 2GB of DDR1 RAM, and it can play the game fine at Normal/Fancy at 60+FPS.

 

[Berthenk]

All computers have a problem with Minecraft.

Are you joking?
I'm running Minecraft right now on an i7 980x, and am getting an excess of 800FPS.

And once again, I bring up my 7-year-old PC, with a single core 2.2GHz CPU and 2GB of DDR1 RAM, and it can play the game fine at Normal/Fancy at 60+FPS.

Lemme guess: you've got terrabytes of RAM inside?
Seriously though, I guess I should've phrased it a bit differently. A rig with an i7 980 is not what you call "computer". That's a monster.

 

[Stigmatic]

To the people saying thay run the game fin on old computers, try starting a new save and walking around. The beginning when it generates a lot of new terrain demands a lot of most computers with a cpu older than the i7 cpu.
Not fancy graphics is not the same as not demanding game. (Try playing farmville, the most demanding crappy game i can think of at the moment.)

Edit: I have to play Minecraft again, haven't met the wolf yet

 

[YayMii]

All computers have a problem with Minecraft.

Are you joking?
I'm running Minecraft right now on an i7 980x, and am getting an excess of 800FPS.

And once again, I bring up my 7-year-old PC, with a single core 2.2GHz CPU and 2GB of DDR1 RAM, and it can play the game fine at Normal/Fancy at 60+FPS.

Lemme guess: you've got terrabytes of RAM inside?
Seriously though, I guess I should've phrased it a bit differently. A rig with an i7 980 is not what you call "computer". That's a monster.

What about my bro's laptop, which is running on a AMD N930 quad core (6GB RAM)? AMD's CPUs aren't quite as powerful as competing Intel CPUs right now AFAIK, so I think it's worth mentioning that it still gets at least 500FPS. It's not the best out there, and you can get N930 laptops for fairly cheap nowadays, so it probably fits into your "computer" category.
Just to note: my i7 980x computer has 6GB RAM. You don't really need any more than that right now if you're just gaming, unless you like wasting resources and doing crap like keeping an instance of Crysis 2 minimized while playing another game. 6GB is more than enough for Minecraft though.

@Stigmatic: That's the reason why mods like Optimine exist (some mods like this were even included as part of a few Beta updates). Optimine reduces the lag caused by land generation, and a few other things. It makes a huge difference on older PCs, and also shows how unoptimized Minecraft is without it. It boosted my 7-year-old PC's FPS by a lot, running playably when generating land, and sometimes even going up to 90FPS at normal/fancy. I'm not sure how well it works in the newer versions though, since I haven't played Minecraft on that computer in weeks (see the issue in my sig).

 

[CannonFoddr]

Well according to a thread I've found the specs for runnning minecraft is

Minimum Requirements:
CPU: 1.5+ GHz multi-core processor, 2.0+ GHz single-core processor
RAM/Memory: 1.0+ GB for Xp, 1.5+ GB for Windows 7-32 bit, 2.0+ GB for Vista/Mac OS, 3.0+ GB for Windows 7-64 bit
Graphic card: Must support OpenGL 1.4 or better (if the computer is a laptop and uses an Intel Graphic Processor, check here, otherwise if it is from Nvidia/Ati, you should be fine)there is another variable in this that affects gameplay so no additional info until then
Hard Drive Space: 80+ MB of free space (might need more as Notch might add more stuff later on)

Recommended Requirements: (game should be running at least 60 fps, or 30 fps when it is loading chunks)
CPU: 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor, 2.5+ GHz single-core processor
RAM/Memory: 2.0+ GB for Xp, 3.0+ GB for Vista/Win 7/Mac OS, 4.0+ GB for all 64-bit Operating Systems
Graphic Card: ATI/Nvidia independent card that support OpenGL 2.0 with 128+ MB of dedicated G-RAM
Hard Drive Space: 256+ MB of free space

 

[FireGrey]

Well according to a thread I've found the specs for runnning minecraft is

Minimum Requirements:
CPU: 1.5+ GHz multi-core processor, 2.0+ GHz single-core processor
RAM/Memory: 1.0+ GB for Xp, 1.5+ GB for Windows 7-32 bit, 2.0+ GB for Vista/Mac OS, 3.0+ GB for Windows 7-64 bit
Graphic card: Must support OpenGL 1.4 or better (if the computer is a laptop and uses an Intel Graphic Processor, check here, otherwise if it is from Nvidia/Ati, you should be fine)there is another variable in this that affects gameplay so no additional info until then
Hard Drive Space: 80+ MB of free space (might need more as Notch might add more stuff later on)

Recommended Requirements: (game should be running at least 60 fps, or 30 fps when it is loading chunks)
CPU: 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor, 2.5+ GHz single-core processor
RAM/Memory: 2.0+ GB for Xp, 3.0+ GB for Vista/Win 7/Mac OS, 4.0+ GB for all 64-bit Operating Systems
Graphic Card: ATI/Nvidia independent card that support OpenGL 2.0 with 128+ MB of dedicated G-RAM
Hard Drive Space: 256+ MB of free space

>.> you gotta be kidding me
i'm using Windows7 64-bit and have 2gb ram.
well i need to go upgrade my ram definetly now

 

[prowler]

Those aren't official requirements.

I've played Minecraft on Windows 7, 1GB of RAM and 3GHz single core.
Running perfectly fine.

 

[Net_Bastard]

Minecraft, Skyrim, and Remembrance Day all on the same day?!?

I'm so going to buy it when it's full.QUOTE(Ikki @ Apr 7 2011, 04:17 PM) I prefer to pay the full price. My PC can't run it right now anyway

What? Why?
Have you tried the newer beta versions? They've been optimized quite a bit. I can run Minecraft Beta 1.3 on my 7-year-old single-core 2.2GHz CPU at 60+ FPS (and 120+ if I set it to the lowest settings). I haven't tried Beta 1.4, but I expect it to not make a difference.

WTF? I have a 2.1GHz dual core CPU and it lags horribly on the "Normal" draw distance setting. I get

 

[CannonFoddr]

WTF? I have a 2.1GHz dual core CPU and it lags horribly on the "Normal" draw distance setting. I get

 

[Deleted_171835]

When I play Minecraft on Tiny/Fast, I usually get an FPS of ~20. It's bearable.
OS: 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (~2.0GHz)
RAM: 2048MB RAM
GFX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (integrated)
HDD Drive: Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 320-GB [/p]I'll try out the Optimine mod and report back with the results

Edit1: When I use the Optimine mod, I get a fluctuating FPS that varies between 10-50 FPS.

Spoiler

[titleicture of FPS]

I'll be trying out the fog mod, now.

Edit2: Minecraft freezes at the loading screen after I installed the fog mod. After about 10 seconds, Minecraft shuts down. I don't have a clue as to why this is happening.

 

[YayMii]

Edit2: Minecraft freezes at the loading screen after I installed the fog mod. After about 10 seconds, Minecraft shuts down. I don't have a clue as to why this is happening.

It's an incompatibility with OptiMine (it says so in the thread). You'll have to choose one or the other.

Also, if you have the time, go ahead and try installing Linux on your PC and running Minecraft on there. You may be able to get it running at much better framerates. Ubuntu is a bad choice though, it's proven to be slower at rendering in OpenGL compared to other distros. I'm using Linux Mint, you might want to give it a try.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Edit2: Minecraft freezes at the loading screen after I installed the fog mod. After about 10 seconds, Minecraft shuts down. I don't have a clue as to why this is happening.

It's an incompatibility with OptiMine (it says so in the thread). You'll have to choose one or the other.

I removed the OptiMine mod and it still freezes.