OK my main PC is now in a cupboard whilst the decorators try and make my living room look less like a shanty town. This means I am using my "god only knows how old" laptop. This thing is a true powerhouse with a 1.79ghz single core processor, a stonking 512mbs ram (shared with the GPU and a truly next gen (compared to the Xbone) Radeon Xpress 200m.
So my quesion is, does anyone have any handy hints on trying to get minecraft to run on this awesome power house of a laptop ? If not I will have to make do with minecraft on me phone (yep my bloody phone can run minecraft but the laptop can't).
ergh, thats a pretty tough one. i recently installed it on one of my cousins crappy computers, but it was much newer than the thing you've got.
Things you can try:
1. graphics drivers, look up and see if there are newer drivers for it that support OpenGL (unless it already supports it). if you cant get that you're pretty much shit out of luck.
2. even with the right drivers it looks like you'll probably need optifine at the lowest settings to get decent FPS. saw something about default minecraft doing around ten FPS on similar hardware. lol
3. don't go anywhere near domepolis. the glass domes alone will cause the graphics card to melt.
4. like xenoflux said, pray.
5. give up, play on mobile.
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