I'm a happy Minecraft player. I place my blocks, mine my coal, and generally nobody gets hurt. Lately though, those mean creepers have been sneaking up on me from behind, and killing me. Because my framerate is so darn low. Adjusting the graphics option Fancy to Fast and the render distance help, but they are not enough. What hacks, tricks, and mean mods can I use to improve my Minecraft FPS? There are a number of mods that claim to improve FPS in Minecraft. My experience is limited to OptiFine an updated version of Optimine from around version 1. Although it's a bit non-specific, I have seen my FPS on a Mac go from completely unplayable to very smooth. OptiFine reworks a number of rendering details to improve Minecraft performance +20fps. Many people go crazy about it on the forum, others say that it just doesn't work so YMMV. Last I heard, Notch was actually including some of these optimizations into Minecraft proper. Keep in mind that any Minecraft mod that's not a skin requires you to patch the Minecraft code itself and thusly may not be compatible with other mods or your Minecraft version. Close any programs you can spare to lose ie internet browser, messenger, music. Use the End Process button to stop a selected process. Do not end any processes that you don't know what they are. Of course you can change your render distance and the graphics quality, but for many, like it seems for you, the speed still is not high enough. Now, I'm assuming that you do not have a great graphics card. For some graphics cards, like Intel HD, you will not have a chance of speeding it up without modifying the game. Optimine is common in that case. If by chance you have an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, there is another opportunity for you. GMABooster is a nice program which can boost your graphics speed quite a bit. Only have Minecraft open, and don't run it in your browser. Close all programs that you don't need, even those that are behind the scenes. A good tutorial to do that is here: So that's all I can suggest. If all else fails, you might have to upgrade your computer. You can get plenty of cheap, new choices at Amazon. Plus, you could try all of those at once! The processing priority change works the best for me. I have Intel HD, and I can run Minecraft pretty smoothly. One thing I've noticed with changing the priority in Win 7 is that realtime causes sound stuttering. In linux I've had no issues with changing the priority at all, but I've never set it lower than -10. In linux the lower the number is the more priority it has. Your beta copy of minecraft already includes the FastRender mod; which has been improved to. As with all mods, they break when minecraft version increments. Even though this question has already been answered I think people here left out defragging the folder of MineCraft don't use on SDD drives , and I think McRegion does that too but programs like Defraggler can do it better. Defragging the folder will put the files closer to each other, so loading things will be a lot faster. To reduce lag on the client side, you should set render distance to Normal or shorter if you have an older computer , set graphics to fast, disable clouds, turn off smooth lighting, set performance to balanced, turn off particles, and, if you have a newer computer, turn ON Advanced OpenGL. If you still have lag, you can grab use the light version if you just want an FPS increase, otherwise go ultra and add it to your game, which should massively increase your FPS. This might actually work if you are using something like a laptop or other thermally limited hardware, especially when the GPU is in the CPU package.
