It's only a change on paper, in reality it was unrealistically low for a long time

Is that ever since 1.8 made the whole game engine vastly less efficient? The game used to run with 256MB.

Rohansi 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The game used to run with 256MB.

These are system requirements - not how much the game actually uses.

tosti 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's modpacks, e.g. fabulously optimized. It makes mc playable but 256MiB basically gets you to the Java runtime nowadays.

Less efficient but faster, which is a fun combination. At least they seem to have improved FPS.

	▲	inigyou 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's probably because you got a new graphics card some time in the last 10 years.