Minecraft Performance

[ifraaank]

Hi!

I play Minecraft on my late 2012 iMac 27", top of the line, with everything upgraded. The game runs fine, but sometimes the fps get bad, especially when there's a lot of people.

When no one's there I get around 100 fps.
When there's a lot, to dumps down to around 30 fps.

With these specs, i expected at least a million fps.
Is it just the game, or am I doing something wrong?

All setting are on highest available btw.

Thanks in advance,
//ifraaank

 

[RedReplicant]

It's the terrible code in Minecraft.

 

[bkribbs]

If you're on mavericks that's killing it too

 

[Habberkuk]

Have you turned off VSync?

 

[ifraaank]

Okay, thanks for the answers.

Have you turned off VSync?

No, actually not, because I want it to lock to the 60 fps, which is the monitor's refresh rate. If I turn it off, the performance is equally low. (30-40 fps.)

 

[Johnf1285]

This may be related to how OS X handles v sync. I've noticed in many games if it drops below 60 it'll clamp the frame rates at 30.

There was a blue post from Blizzard about this in regard to World of Warcraft.

Hopefully the gaming capabilities of OS X gets more love!