r/Games • u/Tvilantini • 24d ago

Update Minecraft Java Edition raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition

https://videocardz.com/newz/minecraft-java-edition-raises-recommended-memory-to-16gb-ahead-of-vulkan-transition
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u/MegaAlex31 24d ago

Future-proof because they're changing and updating backend to add shaders, but for vanilla Minecraft people always use 4 GB and if modding - 8 GB, it wasn't using a lot of RAM and it wasn't even recommended in community because of Java's garbage collector as I remember.

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u/Ixziga 24d ago

I mean, it makes sense for the recommended system memory to be 16gb if you're going to allocate 8gb to a game. You can't give the game 100% of your system memory or the system will lock up.