Minecraft Help

[James Swinton]

Hi all,
I downloaded minecraft last night and after about 2 minutes it goes into major lag and it became unplayable, is there a way to solve it? My specs are i52500K 3.3Ghz, 8GB 1600Mhz RAM, Nvidia GTX580, windows 7 home premium.
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks

 

[Jmp_man]

Perhaps it would be easier to take your questions about lag in Minecraft to the Minecraft official forums?

minecraftforum(.net)

Not that I doubt that the Escapist COULDN'T help, it's just that you might find more people better acquainted with Minecraft and running it there.

 

[Cpu46]

Best bet is to make the view distance short or normal and choose simple graphics. Usually fixes my lag issues. There are also mods out there that help but I don't remember any names off the top of my head.

 

[Jfswift]

You could set windows to "adjust for performance" under settings. I'd recommend shutting down unnecessary programs too.

 

[Akyho]

F key will cycle through view distance. Those specs are better than what I have and I have been blowing up mine craft with nukes over the weekend with little lag. Minecraft forums would do a better job than us.

 

[Mr Companion]

Could be a memory problem (I had this problem even though my RAM is fine) try raising and lowering memory usage. In the Tecnic pack its in options, I don't know how to in vanilla Minecraft. You could try looking up commands for windows that raise memory allocation for applications. Sorry I know this hasn't been very helpful but I know diddly about computors.