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    Minecraft not working with Optimus?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by travbjork, Jul 14, 2011.

  1. travbjork

    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    Anyone else have issues with Minecraft and optimus?

    If I left it on the intel graphics it's super sluggish and runs terrible, even with all the settings to low and the draw distance to close.

    If I put it on the nVidia GPU it's super fast and works great until....

    It runs out of memory. On the nVidia GPU after about 5 minutes it says there's not enough memory and Minecraft must be restarted.

    Any ideas? Thanks in advance :)
     
    travbjork, Jul 14, 2011
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  2. Jubeltrubel

    Jubeltrubel Notebook Guru

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    A Friend of mine experienced the same issue with an older Intel IGP. We found out, that Minecraft works terrible on Intel IGPs. Any low power Nvidia/Amd Card works just fine.
    We haven´t figured out what to do :/
    Maybe you can allocate more ram to the game (which is running Java) with special commandline parameters(just google for it, there are a lot of tweaks you can try)

    /Dev
     
    Jubeltrubel, Jul 15, 2011
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  3. travbjork

    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    I'll have to check it out. It won't really matter once my 3D system gets here and there is no optimus to get in the way x.x
     
    travbjork, Jul 15, 2011
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