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How to Reduce Minecraft Lag the Most Possible!

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Hey guys, I'm guessing you just want to reduce your lag so I'm not going to spend forever talking and get right into it!

Hey Guys I just wanted to say thanks for all the views and comments on my blogs, I'm now level 27, and that's a big deal for me!


Ok, first we are going to work on video settings, find them in the video setting in pause menu(Esc key by default)...


Here is what is usually best:
Key

Green = Specific
Blue = Optional
Red = Off
Purple = On


Graphics = Fast
Smooth Lighting = Off
3D Anaglyph = Off
GUI Scale = Optional
Brightness = Optional
Particles = Minimum
Render Distance = Normal or Small
Performance = Max FPS
View Bobbing = Optional
Advanced OpenGL = On
Clouds = Optional


Snooper Settings
Go into Options Menu again(Esc by default or main menu) and go into Snooper Settings. Then where it says "Allow Snooper: On" you want to click the button and turn it off. If you run a Minecraft Server then turning it off in server.properties can also reduce lag for the SERVER and PLAYERS a lot!

CCleaner

CCleaner will help you reduce lag by just cleaning up your PC in general, and will help more than just Minecraft. Your computer and other games will also run faster! Simple download it here, run it, select what you want to get rid of, and run! Depending on what you do it may go fast or take a long while, and you do not have to worry about getting rid of files you need. The program is free and does help your computer a lot.

Disk Cleanup

This is for Windows users. There might be a way to do this on Mac/Linux, but I am not sure. Search Disk Cleanup in the start menu, and you should find a program called such. Open it and select your main device, usually it the C:/ drive( OS (C:) ) then click OK. It will calculate a few things which might take a minute but then will continue to open up a new window. Check every box that it allows and then click the OK box. This will then take a minute depending on how long you have had your PC. This too will help your computer in general. It is recommended to do this about once every 1-2 weeks.


In Single Player

Reducing your difficulty to Peaceful can also reduce lag. This is because with peaceful hostile mobs do not spawn, and that is less entities lagging the game. Reducing it to anything lower than your current difficulty can also help reduce mob spawn rate, or you can try getting a mod to reduce the spawning rate. This does not help in multiplayer, unless the server is on peaceful mode.


If You Still Have Lag

Try the Optifine Mod.Find it here. Recommended settings for Optifine below.

How to modify Optifine to run Minecraft Fastest

Green = Specific
Blue = Optional
Red = Off
Purple = On

Dark Blue/Dark Purple(Pictures) = Fast
Pink = Other
Brown = Ignore


We are working under Video Settings currently.
Graphics = Fast
Smooth Lighting = Off
Smooth Lighting Level = Ignore
GUI Scale = Optional
Brightness = Optional
Fog = Off
Server Textures = This is optional, as it only creates lag if you accept to using a server's recommended texture pack and it is higher resolution than Minecraft
Render Distance = Optional, the lower the faster
Performance = Max FPS
View Bobbing = Optional
Advanced OpenGL = Fast
Chunk Loading = Multi-Core
Fog Start = Ignore
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VideoSettingsPNG



Now we are under Video Settings>>Details

Clouds = Off
Trees = Fast
Water = Fast
Sky = Off
Sun & Moon = Off
Depth Fog = Off
Dropped Items = Fast
Grass = Fast
Cloud Height = Off
Rain & Snow = Off
Stars = Off
Show Capes = Off
Held Item Tooltips = Optional
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DetailSettingsPNG



Now we are under Video Settings>>Animation Settings
Here, everything should be set to OFF. If it is other it is listed below.
You can go onto the bottom and click "All Off" to make this really easy
on yourself.

Particles = Minimal
Picture
As everything goes off(except particles), I do not feel this one needs a picture, especially when there is a button for it. If you guys really feel it is needed tell me below and I will add one.


Now we are under Video Settings>>Quality Settings


Minimap Level = Optional
Anisotropic Filtering = Off
Clear Water = Optional
Better Grass = Off
Custom Fonts = Off
Swamp Colors = Off
Connected Textures = Off
Custom Sky = Off
Minimap Type = Ignore
Antialiasing = Off - Must restart Minecraft to take effect.
Random Mobs = Off
Better Snow = Off
Custom Colors = Off
Smooth Biomes = Off
Natural Textures = Optional
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QualitySettingsPNG


Now we are under Video Settings>>Performance Settings



Smooth FPS = Optional
Smooth World = Optional
Load Far = Optional
Chunk Updates per Frame = Optional
Preloaded Chunks = Optional
Dynamic Updates = Optional
Picture
I cannot really provide a picture for this one that would give you reducing lag settings, as this is all optional. While this is the performance tab, it more deals with how stable your FPS is, which is what you want, and what your computer can handle.


Now we are under Video Settings>>Other Settings


Lagometer = Off
Weather = Off
Fullscreen = Optional
3D Anaglyph = Off
Debug Profiler = Off
Time = Optional(only effective in creative mode)
Fullscreen Mode = Optional(Default is usually best)
Autosave = Optional(Default 3min is recommended)
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OtherSettingsPNG


Anything else in any other parts are up to you, but you might still want to turn OFF Allowing Snooper, as said above.


You can also go into Command Promt(Ctrl+Alt+Delete, or Ctrl+Shift+Esc on Windows) under Processes, finding javaw, and setting it's priority to either High or Realtime(realtime requires Admin). Upon changing the priority it will give you an "Are you sure?" window, in which you will just proceed by clicking yes/confirm.
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CommandPromptpng


Also play Minecraft with GameBooster, it will raise your FPS for sure and I highly recommend this free and effective program(it helps with any laggy game).

Also if you are using Windows(tested on Windows 7), then turn off Windows Aero, which can be done in appearance settings of your computer <--- NOT Minecraft settings!



Thanks!

DylanDylan54321 - for helping me fix a semi-important typo in a description.
handosome - for reminding me about turning off Windows Aero, which has the capability to help a very large amount.
deadrecon98 - For showing me where I said "off" in OpenGL, as it can reduce lag a lot.



Hope I helped! Comment with feedback!
Creditchrisman0091 DylanDylan54321 handosome Gamez4Dummies deadrecon98
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Update #4 : by Gamez4Dummies 06/02/2013 4:28:11 pmJun 2nd, 2013

Added pictures! Been meaning to do this since around the beginning of the year and finally got back to it. I now have picture for every menu in Optifine(if applicable)! This will hopefully help some users out(: Working on getting one for the default Minecraft menu too for you guys! Also updated everything, as some settings were moved to different areas in the Optifine settings.
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03/16/2020 2:24 pm
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hey_i_asked
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didn’t work. i still have 3 fps at best :/
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12/20/2019 2:56 amhistory
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Vozelix
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For me, it glitches in place in the middle of like some hypixel game works fine with single player so guessing it's partially my internet
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04/09/2019 12:02 pm
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Cmdb26
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I did everything you said, but its still not working. I only have 6 FPS!:(
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12/07/2019 8:05 am
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New step
RECOMMENDED (BUY NEW PC)
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12/30/2019 10:44 am
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i have latest pc
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12/01/2019 2:07 pm
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POOP PC
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12/16/2018 9:49 pm
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RottenFishJokes
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I have been a fan for years and could never understand why so much lag. There is nothing to the game. Certainly not the graphics, and yet even in vanilla I am inundated with lag. I play on an hp 15 notebook pc. It doesn't fit the game specs at all. In fact, it doesn't fit any game specs. It has 4gbs of Ram. Runs of the Integrated Intel HR Graphics adapter. I have been for ever searching for the source of this lag for years and would not take that it was because of specs, yet I probably could have and would have been right minded by many if I had. But I didn't and what I found was astonishing. I ran a little program inside of Windows 10 os called "perfmon.exe /res". You can run it too from the Windows Key+R. It is a resource monitor. It gave me the craziest results for Java.exe when I ran the game. Now logically if it was Java running up the CPU process during the lag, there would be no way of telling how to eliminate the culprit. I found though that when the lag hit, the cpu usage dropped. I was expecting to find the opposite. So I looked closer and I noticed that the only other thing was that the network was spiking, so I "checked" java.exe in the resource monitor and looked under the network tab. Oh my! What I found shocked me. There was a listing for, none other than www.steepto.com and that took me to Google. Searching out "www.steepto.com" gives this as an answer for the site "You can monetize traffic from your website and earn money not only from banners and context ads." I was now like "Why The Face!" What is an ad collection site doing running in java? Not only that, I asked myself how did it get in there. I asked the final question that still demands answers. Doesn't Minecraft force you to download the code from their server every time? There is no explanation other than it comes with that download. So what did I do next? I went out to OpenDNS and started a free account and added www.steepto.com to the block list, and guess what? Nearly 90% of my LAG IS NO MORE. I still get lag, but it only last for less than a minute where before it was more like 5-10 minutes worth. Can anyone else out there confirm this? I am beside myself with this.
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11/08/2018 9:01 am
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jenniferrose220
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This post was a huge lifesaver for me on my laptop! Worked so well
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10/15/2018 12:58 pm
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GrejDotExe
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Thanks! Setting the FPS to unlimited really reduced lag :)
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03/17/2020 12:30 am
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HeroDrakeor
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Epic. It's either I have a bad PC or Minecraft really is RAM hungry; I have Optifine, Fast Graphics, 0 smooth lighting, and many other minimal-lag things INCLUDING Unlimited framerate and I still get pretty laggy.
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