Are you experiencing ‘LAG’ in your minecraft session. A lot of people will deem that lag will come from the server your connected to and that it cannot handle the load. Others will say that its your Internet connection, or your ping time. Well I have a few things that I can share and I hope that it can help you in your experience as well.
I am currently running my own Minecraft server on Debian Wheezy. It is running with 4 cores and 8GB RAM with a 50GB HDD. This is a dedicated server and nothing is running on this server except Minecraft. I don’t have any issues with any of my computers at work or my 3 desktop computers at home. At home I have a 50Mb connection and my ping times to my server are normally within the 20′s to 30′s ms. However on my Macbook Pro I seem to have some ‘Lag’ so I was fooling around with some settings and would you believe it .. no more ‘Lag’.
Nothing changed with my connection speed just the setting within minecraft. Heres what I did
In Minecraft press the escape key (ESC) this will bring you to the Game menu.
Next click on Options…
From there choose Video Settings…
Change the following:
- Graphics: Fast
- Render Distance: Tiny (limits view distance to 32 blocks)
- Smooth Lighting: Off or Minimum
- Performance: Balanced or Powersaver (limits to 35fps)
- Advanced OpenGL: Off
- Particles: Decreased
- Use VSync: Off
Doing this should really increase your performance and reduce the ‘Lag’ you may see. I did this for my Mac, and although I have a pretty decent Mac, it did speed things up and I got better performance.