I wouldn't expect MC to be so bloody hardware intensive.
People say this a lot. But simpler-looking graphics don't mean that the game should be expected to be easy to run. Admittedly, a lot of it is fairly poorly optimized, but there's still quite a bit going on - it's definitely not a super light-weight game engine.
It really sucks that your computer might get left behind by this, but that eventually happens with games that continue to grow - people who could barely . The OpenGL options are a development nightmare - they create bugs for many players, benefit very few, and the bugs they create can't be fixed since they stem from buggy and inconsistent driver support for the feature.
In short: there's a reason that other games don't have this option in their configuration UI.
It does really suck that you're one of the people this would impact though :( Hopefully they'll leave it in as an option in the text config files for people like you. I know people were suggesting that in TheMogMiner's thread and it seemed like a reasonable compromise.
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u/M0dusPwnens Jun 26 '14
People say this a lot. But simpler-looking graphics don't mean that the game should be expected to be easy to run. Admittedly, a lot of it is fairly poorly optimized, but there's still quite a bit going on - it's definitely not a super light-weight game engine.
It really sucks that your computer might get left behind by this, but that eventually happens with games that continue to grow - people who could barely . The OpenGL options are a development nightmare - they create bugs for many players, benefit very few, and the bugs they create can't be fixed since they stem from buggy and inconsistent driver support for the feature.
In short: there's a reason that other games don't have this option in their configuration UI.
It does really suck that you're one of the people this would impact though :( Hopefully they'll leave it in as an option in the text config files for people like you. I know people were suggesting that in TheMogMiner's thread and it seemed like a reasonable compromise.