hey guys good evening I'm looking for any recommentations on a laptop that can run minecraft well for my 10 year old daughter.
Every laptop can run minecraft, but isn't 10 years old not to young for an laptop?
Every laptop can run minecraft, but isn't 10 years old not to young for an laptop?
Does Minecraft really even use the graphics card? I haven't installed it on any PCs, and I'm not well versed in Minecraft, but as far as I know it doesn't really use any polygons. It uses Voxels. The CPU would probably handle the graphics. You'd just need a halfway decent CPU and probably a decent amount of RAM.
I imagine that RAM would be the chokepoint for most low-end systems.
I could be completely wrong though.
It absolutely uses the graphics card. Minecraft does not use voxels, but rather polygons rendered in cube-ish form. Even if it was voxel based, it doesn't change the fact that your GPU should be doing the work. CPUs are not even close to the level of efficiency of GPUs for any vector or floating point math. Voxels are even more complex to calculate than polygons anyway, so it can be quickly ruled out.Are you sure it was the graphics card though? Maybe your new PC just has a better CPU or more RAM?
Or maybe the newer graphics cards help because they have more RAM than the old ones. I suppose that could help with larger texture packs.
As I understand it, Minecraft is also single-threaded. Well, most of the core tasks go in a single thread. So having an old CPU with several cores won't be as good as having just one faster core.
So a laptop using a multi-core Atom with 2GB of RAM might have trouble even if it had the best GPU in it.
A laptop with integrated graphics, but an i3 processor and 4 GB or RAM would do better.