How to make Minecraft run faster on a great PC

[QuestionableUsername]

I want to make Minecraft run more efficiently but it barley runs with shaders...
PC specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/X27WTW

So, I have a good computer and my Minecraft runs worse than my friend with a 5 year old laptop... Something is wrong. I just need help finding out what it is.

 

[QuestionableUsername]

Setting affinity for a task in Windows basically tells the process which CPU and core it can run on. If set to a single core, you'll see a more accurate per core usage, but it isn't useful unless you are experiencing reduced performance due to the overhead in switching the task from core to core. If you only have a single high priority task, this probably won't affect performance much at all, but if you have multiple high priority tasks spread across multiple cores, having your task shuttled to a busy core may result in your tasks getting starved for time when they needn't be. It's really up to the program creator to deal with the optimization of their software, not Windows.

If you want to play around with the affinity of a running task, open Windows Task Manager, switch to the Details tab, select the task you wish to modify and right mouse-click it. Select Set affinity from the context menu and set which core or cores you wish the task to run on.

This change is only temporary. As soon as you restart the task, the affinity goes back to normal.

Thanks man, I will try this tomorrow. I'm going to finish studying for my final exams.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

I think what you're going to find is that Minecraft is being CPU limited, and the only thing you can do to fix that is decrease whatever setting affects the CPU side of things, or increase your per core performance. I don't believe Minecraft is multithreaded at all, although that can change someday in an update, but it's a pretty big undertaking which should have been done from the start to get best results.

AAA titles like BF3 & 4 are good examples of properly coded multi-threading games that can take advantage of powerful CPUs like you have. Minecraft is the opposite. Your high end graphics card however does allow you to turn up the rendering options, so don't discount it's role here. At 90%, your GPU has little left to give in terms of performance, if you do manage to get your CPU per core performance higher.

 

[QuestionableUsername]

I think what you're going to find is that Minecraft is being CPU limited, and the only thing you can do to fix that is decrease whatever setting affects the CPU side of things, or increase your per core performance. I don't believe Minecraft is multithreaded at all, although that can change someday in an update, but it's a pretty big undertaking which should have been done from the start to get best results.

AAA titles like BF3 & 4 are good examples of properly coded multi-threading games that can take advantage of powerful CPUs like you have. Minecraft is the opposite. Your high end graphics card however does allow you to turn up the rendering options, so don't discount it's role here. At 90%, your GPU has little left to give in terms of performance, if you do manage to get your CPU per core performance higher.

I think with Optifine I can get multi core support but I'm not sure, let's find out!

 

[Epicness937]

I think what you're going to find is that Minecraft is being CPU limited, and the only thing you can do to fix that is decrease whatever setting affects the CPU side of things, or increase your per core performance. I don't believe Minecraft is multithreaded at all, although that can change someday in an update, but it's a pretty big undertaking which should have been done from the start to get best results.

AAA titles like BF3 & 4 are good examples of properly coded multi-threading games that can take advantage of powerful CPUs like you have. Minecraft is the opposite. Your high end graphics card however does allow you to turn up the rendering options, so don't discount it's role here. At 90%, your GPU has little left to give in terms of performance, if you do manage to get your CPU per core performance higher.

I think with Optifine I can get multi core support but I'm not sure, let's find out!

optifine allows up to 8 core support as far as i know