Running WoW at 200-300 FPS, Minecraft at 8-15 FPS, compatibility problem?

[Enflamable]

Nothing happened with updating java, and nothing happened when you told Optimus to be running the nvidia card in java?
Even if you set the Win7-"theme" to high performance?

Updated java, Forced Java to use my GPU but still nothing and yes i have set Win7 to high performance.

[DieFichte]

Updated java, Forced Java to use my GPU but still nothing and yes i have set Win7 to high performance.

Can you deactivate Optimus completly in Bios? There were a few issues in D3 if I remember correctly with that.

[d3v]

It's a multimedia card with very poor gaming performance.

Poor gaming performance? Dunno, I have the exact same card in my laptop and I can run most games on High. Last MMO I played on my laptop was TERA, and I played it on max settings with no lag what so ever. I don't know how taxing TERA is, but considering the graphics, and having max view distance and not lagging? Don't think it's a poor gaming card. Not saying its fantastic, but I'd definitely not call it poor.

[Enflamable]

Can you deactivate Optimus completly in Bios? There were a few issues in D3 if I remember correctly with that.

Yup, tried that, and STILL no joy. Im starting to give up, im just gonna have to have to live with 6GB of RAM.

[reemi]

Because it's a JAVA game, you can run Battlefield 3 full ultra and have problems with minecraft.

Usually, people just allocate more RAM to Minecraft and it fixed everything. Or shutdown some applications if you have many applications opened.

[Enflamable]

Because it's a JAVA game, you can run Battlefield 3 full ultra and have problems with minecraft.

Usually, people just allocate more RAM to Minecraft and it fixed everything. Or shutdown some applications if you have many applications opened.

I've tried allocating over half of the RAM i have to Java. tried : 2/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 /=out of

[Cyanotical]

I've tried allocating over half of the RAM i have to Java. tried : 2/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 /=out of

dont allocate more than 2GB

[Barana]

One last thing you could try is setting Advanced OpenGL to Fast in Minecraft's video options. I believe that with that off, it renders everything in loaded chunks, including the blocks that you can't currently see.

If that doesn't work, then it might just be your video card not working well with Java, and in that case I don't think theres much you can do to fix it.

[glo]

Poor gaming performance? Dunno, I have the exact same card in my laptop and I can run most games on High. Last MMO I played on my laptop was TERA, and I played it on max settings with no lag what so ever. I don't know how taxing TERA is, but considering the graphics, and having max view distance and not lagging? Don't think it's a poor gaming card. Not saying its fantastic, but I'd definitely not call it poor.

Well, very poor compared to desktop level cards. According to notebookcheck benchmarks, it's coming in around the same performance as a GT 430. A large contributing factor would be the resolution on the notebook. If the notebook is running a low resolution like 1366x768 or 1440x900, even under powered cards can run like a champ. :P

If one were to use a 540m at 1080p though, it would be a very different story. -Anyway-, resolution doesn't affect Minecraft performance much since the strain from that game to the GPU is of a completely different nature.

[lockedout]

Haven't played in awhile but WoW was capped at 200 fps.

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Well, the fact that you're definitely not getting 200-300FPS in WoW (on any settings) aside, have you tried a different map? Massive maps on Minecraft are hugely dependent on video cards, and your card is definitely not fit for any type of modern gaming.

I get about 190 in IF shadows on lowest.

[glo]

I get about 190 in IF shadows on lowest.

Point? Just about anyone can. There's no one in the zone, and it's among the least polygonal saturated areas in the game. Running around trying to find the perfect spot to get silly FPS numbers isn't "playing the game".

Hit a raid, hit SW or Org, fly around any zone post vanilla, do some PvP and run some current 5 mans. You're not going to pull 190 FPS.

[Mazamaras]

yeah my laptop tried to use the intel hd 3000 graphics for minecraft, just set the java to the dedicated gpu

[d3v]

yeah my laptop tried to use the intel hd 3000 graphics for minecraft, just set the java to the dedicated gpu

wait, did you go to the nvidia control panel and make it run minecraft.exe (or whatever it is I don't have minecraft) using NVIDIA GPU, or did you make it make it run Java in general using NVIDIA GPU? I think OP has tried the first but with no success, but if you meant the 2nd, how exactly did you do it? Might solve the OP's problem dunno.

[Libram]

Brand new laptop and it runs everything perfectly, EXCEPT Minecraft.
Unless i run it on a RAMDisk it just goes crazy but the funniest thing about it is when im on Minecraft playing and looking at the sky my FPS goes to a good 400-500 FPS solid perfect quality, but then as i look towards the landscape then it says it goes to 20 FPS but i know that's its about 7-12 FPS at most. Im guessing it's a render problem, anyways i have it running on a RAMDisk and it seems to have sorted the problem, but i don't want to HAVE to dedicate 2GB of RAM to Minecraft

Whats the problem?

Laptop Specs:


Processor Intel® Core i7-2670QM processor clocked at 2.2GHz
Cache memory 6MB
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM 8 GB DDR3
Graphics card NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M DDR3 2GB
Screen type LED

Install the OptiFine mod for Minecraft. This may help
OptiFine prevents the game from saving every two seconds to about every 5 minutes I think? It works great for older PC's and sometimes modern.

[Snorkle]

The problem is (and may I add the word OBVIOUSLY) not the graphics card. It is perfectly capable of playing many games which are much more GPU intensive than minecraft. The guy saying it has crap gaming performance should make note of only speaking of things which he knows about.

Now, if you have an asus n53sv like me (my lappy is just like yours, except with more RAM), you might be experiencing the same issue I had. When you enter the game, and again, this only works if you have the same laptop kind, look at the color of the 2nd light from the right above the numpad. If it is blue, it means the game is using the intel HD3000 during the game. I was really confused as you probably are. If this is the case, a quick visit to the nvidia control pannel and the laptop's power supply settings can solve the issue. They did for me.

If you have a different brand of laptop, there might be another way to check which card is active for the game. Hope it helps.

[CheezusCrust]

Well, the fact that you're definitely not getting 200-300FPS in WoW (on any settings) aside, have you tried a different map? Massive maps on Minecraft are hugely dependent on video cards, and your card is definitely not fit for any type of modern gaming.

I had 250 FPS on my i5-2500k, on lowest settings (1280x720 XD) & in the emptiest part of Elwynn Forest though :P