6 ms·

It's only a change on paper, in reality it was unrealistically low for a long time

• inigyou 2mo ago
  Is that ever since 1.8 made the whole game engine vastly less efficient? The game used to run with 256MB.
  • Filligree 2mo ago
    Less efficient but faster, which is a fun combination. At least they seem to have improved FPS.
    • inigyou 2mo ago
      That's probably because you got a new graphics card some time in the last 10 years.
      • oliwarner 2mo 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 2mo ago
          Not true. Render distance and simulation distance were decoupled years ago.
          • oliwarner 2mo ago
            It's possible to simulate less than you can see, but it's pretty undesirable. The recommendations scale with this.
  • Rohansi 2mo ago
    > The game used to run with 256MB. These are system requirements - not how much the game actually uses.
  • tosti 2mo ago
    There's modpacks, e.g. fabulously optimized. It makes mc playable but 256MiB basically gets you to the Java runtime nowadays.