Minecraft on the Series 7?

Hi there

I've been really feeling like playing this game again recently but I'm just not having much luck running it on my Chronos, presumably because of the OpenGL issues. It's much better since the graphics driver update the other day, but it's still pretty much unplayable.

Unless I turn down everything to the ABSOLUTE minimum (tiny view distance, "fast" graphics, etc etc) it only runs at like 20 fps which is extremely jerky for this game. And with the view distance on tiny it runs fine, but it's not really worth playing when you cant see 2 feet in front of you!

Anyone had any more luck than me? Or any tips?

Thanks.

 

I run Minecraft on "max" except for performance which I set to balance and I get 60+FPS, if I change performance to max fps I get 90+ FPS.

I am using the latest official drivers linked in the other thread, not any hacked ones.

Have you set CCC to High Performance for it?

 

Hmm, strange. Yeah I've set it to high performance, I have the latest drivers which downloaded directly from samsung easy manager thingy. Maybe i'll try and download those directly which youre talking about.

Incidentally, which model of series 7 do you have? Mine is S02UK which is full spec 'cept the processor which is just the i5-2430. (8GB RAM, AMD6750) I can't imagine a jump down from i7 to i5 though would cause such a massive performance gap.

Edit: could it also be potentially something to do with java version? ive not tried it on the 64-bit version yet.

 

I have the i7 version and I use the 64 bit version of Java, but it shouldn't matter that much.

Most likely you have the wrong drivers, so download them manually from the link in the other thread and install them and try again.

Also if you have messed around with other drivers, like Leshcats, then you might want to use a driver cleaner as explained there to make sure you don't have old "crap" laying around in your system.

Good luck!

 

Well I'm really at a complete loss with this! Totally uninstalled and reinstalled the VGA/AMD drivers and am still experiencing exactly the same performance. no idea what to do!

 

Which drivers are you installing and where did you get them?

 

Well the initial update I was referring to was just installed straight through the Easy Software Manager. I never bothered to mess around with the leshcats drivers or anything so as far as I know it was just a clean install.

Earlier today I went onto the official driver page for the chronos on the samung website and download the vga-amd driver package. When I ran this it gave me the option to install or uninstall, so to begin with I ran the complete uninstall which removed all of the AMD and catalyst stuff from the comp. I then rebooted and went through the install procedure, and i'm precisely back at square one! =/

If it's of any consequence, I've now tried out 2 additional games for comparison. Fallout: New Vegas, and World of Warcraft. WoW, even on medium settings, struggles along at like 11 fps, whereas Fallout runs as smooth as you like on Ultra!! Full shadows, massive draw distances, really high res textures. I do not understand!

 

As I said earlier. Use the link in the other thread to download the latest official drivers. Don't use Easy Software Manage, and don't use Samsungs webpage.

Fallout uses DirectX, and this have never been an issue, only OpenGL which MineCraft uses and WoW CAN use, depending on the settings. WoW can also use DirectX instead, and if you switch to that it will work fine.

OR you could just download the right drivers and everything will work. I even said it twice...

 

I appreciate your advice. Sorry if I'm missing something but I already downloaded that file that Lomex posted in the stickied thread and now I just have a 370 mb file called "images.jpg"... so either i've downloaded the wrong thing, or this is not the correct format of the file... or i'm misunderstanding something again.

 

Try to rename the file so it ends in zip. Like images.zip

Then unpack it if you can, and install.