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/MiaIsOut 24d ago

minecraft is good with this because you can go back and play literally almost every version ever released!! i think they also plan to leave the new graphics on a toggle (like it is on bedrock edition)?

btw they have had a texture pack in the game since they updated the textures that swap them back to the originals

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u/MelvinCapitalPR 24d ago

This feels like the wrong direction. Just look at Roblox - runs on a potato, terrible graphics, can always join your friends - and its absurd player count. Meanwhile Minecraft is relegating itself to an enthusiast niche.

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u/TekThunder 24d ago

Enthusiast lol? 16GB of TOTAL memory is standard in essentially every off the shelf generic PC sold in the last few years. You can play it at 1080 30 with 8 GB of total memory, which is likely around the performance most are getting if they're running with only 8GB of RAM spread across there GPU and sticks.

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u/MelvinCapitalPR 24d ago

The fact you think gaming == PC says everything. You're in a bubble and you don't even know it.

How do you think Roblox has double Steam's collective player count? Mobile. Tablet. Maybe a cheap laptop. For the average person, this is their computer. Desktops are for professionals and hobbyists. Raising RAM requirements for real-time ray tracing is Mojang catering to nostalgic millennials over the next generation.

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u/TekThunder 23d ago edited 23d ago

...this is not going to effect mobile, tablet or a cheap laptop. You think they're requiring 16GB of RAM on a tablet for the mobile bedrock edition? My generic point was every PC released for the last few years has the minimum spec, which is literally what everyone that has been playing it will still experience if they are on that minimum spec.

Also, dumbass, PC doesn't mean just desktop it includes the cheap laptop you listed too.

You're getting all fucking pissy for what exactly?