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Hardware:

  • Intel i7
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970
  • SSD with plenty of space
  • 6 GB RAM

Software

  • OpenJDK 6, 7, and Oracle Java 7 (reproducible with all three)
  • AMD Catalyst 12.8 and open source driver (reproducible with both)
  • Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 and older
  • Minecraft 1.3.2 vanilla and older

On this setup I am getting rubbish frame rates after a short while of playing, dropping from about 45-55 to 15 in a couple of minutes. CPU use is 40-45 even when rendering the opening screen at 1920x1280, and gameRenderer is using about 90% CPU when playing.

Rather than trying to eke out a few more FPS out of an obviously broken rendering pipeline, I really hope to find a solution to make the GPU render Minecraft.

Edit 1: Something bizarre just happened: The first thing I always change in the settings is to turn bobbing off. Turns out that re-enabling bobbing makes the frame rate shoot right back up from 15-20 to 30-50 (mostly around 30) in fullscreen mode! It is still rather erratic, bumping down to 15-20 sometimes, but usually only for a few seconds. Also, the debug mode (F3) shows that 100% of the time is spent in "unspecified".

Edit 2: That seems to have been a dud - I disabled bobbing again a few minutes later, and it's been running at 20-40 FPS since. The snooper reports 24 FPS.

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AFAIK, minecraft is way more dependent on the CPU than the GPU. On that note, have you tried out optifine? It's supposed to increase FPS significantly. – Glutanimate Oct 1 '12 at 22:05
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Minecraft uses LWJGL, a Java gaming library which run atop OpenGL. So, assuming your graphics card driver has full support for OpenGL under Ubuntu, it should already be rendering with the GPU. Aside from Optifine (and trying the 32-bit JVM - minecraft has issues under the 64-bit JVM in some setups), the only thing you can really do is turn down the render-distance. – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Oct 1 '12 at 23:40
@Glutanimate With optifine it got a lot worse: 10-11 FPS even after turning off advanced OpenGL and setting tiny render distance. – l0b0 Oct 2 '12 at 18:14

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