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Is that ever since 1.8 made the whole game engine vastly less efficient? The game used to run with 256MB.

• tosti 4mo ago
  There's modpacks, e.g. fabulously optimized. It makes mc playable but 256MiB basically gets you to the Java runtime nowadays.
• Filligree 4mo ago
  Less efficient but faster, which is a fun combination. At least they seem to have improved FPS.
  • inigyou 4mo ago
    That's probably because you got a new graphics card some time in the last 10 years.
    • oliwarner 4mo ago
      The stuff they're rendering has to come from somewhere. They go hand in hand, the bigger the render area, the more game has to be simulated at once.
      • inigyou 4mo ago
        Not true. Render distance and simulation distance were decoupled years ago.
        • oliwarner 4mo ago
          It's possible to simulate less than you can see, but it's pretty undesirable. The recommendations scale with this.
• Rohansi 4mo ago
  > The game used to run with 256MB. These are system requirements - not how much the game actually uses.