Minecraft on Netbook

muunleit · 2010-10-02 11:51:23

Hey Archers,

has anyone tried Minecraft on a netbook with archlinux?
I would like to know how well it works before I purchase.

I've tried the Minecraft Classic [Free!]-version with Opera and jre.
It runs only with jre, not with openjdk and only at 3fps with the default settings.
I hope the download-version runs better and with openjdk?!

EDIT: about netbook

Intel Atom 1.6GHz
Intel 945GME graphics
2GB RAM
no DE, only xmonad

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urist · 2010-10-02 13:20:09

muunleit wrote:

EDIT: about netbook
Intel Atom 1.6GHz
Intel 945GME graphics
2GB RAM
no DE, only xmonad

That's got double the RAM mine does, we're even running xmonad on both. Minecraft is kind of slow on my netbook, but runs at a playable speed on a full-size laptop of similar specs. Perhaps it's a graphics thing.

I actually think the Windows exe works better in Wine than the jar does natively. It seems to be faster and I get sound with it.

If free doesn't run on OpenJDK, it's likely that non-free won't either.

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muunleit · 2010-10-02 15:23:45

urist wrote:

If free doesn't run on OpenJDK, it's likely that non-free won't either.

The download-version starts with OpenJDK too, but I could not try if it works after login.

Meyithi · 2010-10-04 06:05:59

It's the CPU, Minecraft is quite CPU intensive, runs the same on my Netbook (Atom N450, 1.66 GHz).

heleos · 2010-10-08 10:27:31

I tried it on my xps with a core 2 and 4 gig of ram, and it was choppy. Runs nice on my i7 with 6 gigs of ram though it must be processor intensive, I haven't heard good things about my specific core2

urist · 2010-10-08 14:20:30

heleos wrote:

I tried it on my xps with a core 2 and 4 gig of ram, and it was choppy.

Huh. Running the Windows exe in Wine on my Celeron M with 1 gig of ram is pretty quick with maximum fog. I would have figured that beast (and it is a beast compared to mine) would run the native jar perfectly.

forwardslash · 2010-10-12 18:17:45

I'm playing Minecraft on my Gaming Desktop (OC'd, lots of RAM, dedicated graphics, etc) and my SL510 Thinkpad (Core 2 Duo w/ 2 Gigs of RAM and Intel GMA X4500HD).

It works almost flawlessly on my Desktop, but lags horribly on the day/night switch and typically freezes after playing for more than 10 minutes on the Laptop. Also unable to switch the graphics form Fancy to Fast, is just stutters when I try and then doesn't switch. Also crashes/lags when I try to play it on my Windows 7 partition and on my gf's Vista laptop.

I'm kinda surprised at the CPU intensiveness of the game, but perhaps it's just because it's in Alpha?

quantumphaze · 2010-10-25 06:50:45

I'm running the alpha on my ThinkPad SL500 (C2D@2.4GHz, 2GB, Nvidia 9300) with OpenJDK and it works for the most part. Every now and then (>5 min) it will stutter for 2 seconds at a low frame rate before continuing on its way. It eats CPU faster than a Hummer eats petrol so an Atom chip may not handle it well.

If it performs better in JRE use that instead.

bananaoomarang · 2010-10-25 08:38:05

it runs fine on mine (Toshiba Tecra m4, 2gigs of RAM, 2.1GHZ Intel Centrino, nVidia Geforce go6200 on official drivers) if I turn the render distance to normal or lower. I am running the alpha with sun's jre. It says on the site to please use sun's so there must be issues with openjdk.

Gooofy · 2010-10-27 13:52:52

Can somebody please provide the instructions on getting Minecraft running via WINE?

TIA

replax · 2011-02-17 10:22:12

also, if u use the JRE 1.7 beta, it will gain significant performance.
since it's still java though and also seems to be programmed rather sluggish, you need quite decent hardware to run it. Especially CPU power.
They should rewrite it in C++ with OpenGL, the performance improvement would be huge and I assume that every netbook would be able to run it on nearly maxed out graphics w/o any problems...
I doubt they will though, unfortunately.

milso · 2011-02-17 12:42:08

Gooofy wrote:

Can somebody please provide the instructions on getting Minecraft running via WINE?
TIA

Why would you ever want to do this? It runs natively in GNU/Linux, running it in wine will only cause further performance drops.

moljac024 · 2011-02-18 17:08:54

Minecraft seems to be horribly coded, so i wouldn't hope it would run on a netbook any time soon.
It stutters a bit sometimes on my desktop. That's right, this low res blocks game is quite demanding.

dcc24 · 2011-02-18 17:58:02

milso wrote:

Gooofy wrote:
Can somebody please provide the instructions on getting Minecraft running via WINE?
TIA
Why would you ever want to do this? It runs natively in GNU/Linux, running it in wine will only cause further performance drops.

You haven't read the thread at all, haven't you? Several people said the windows binary performs better than the native jar.

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