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I have recently downloaded Minecraft to Ubuntu 12.04. It launches and plays successfully, however- the frame rates for the game are extremely slow. They never go past 9 fps and usually drop below 3 fps.

I have been a Windows XP user for years and have just recently switched to Ubuntu, so I'm not an expert with this OS. My video card is a Diamond Stealth s60 with Radeon 7000.

I don't know what other information you guys need but if you ask for it, and would please tell me how to get to it, I will tell you as soon as I can. Thanks for your help.

Jorge Castro
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Cade
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Minecraft Wiki: Hardware Performance Any computer with the following hardware should suffice, however, for an enjoyable experience, we suggest looking at the recommended requirements.

Minimum requirements:

    CPU : Intel P4/NetBurst architecture or its AMD equivalent (AMD K7)
    RAM : 800MB
    GPU : GeForce3 or ATI Radeon 7xxx and up.
    HDD : At least 10MB for game data
    Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5 or up is required to be able to run the game.

Recommended requirements:

    CPU : Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 (K8) 2.6 GHz
    RAM : 2GB
    GPU : GeForce 6xxx or ATI Radeon 9xxx and up with OpenGL 2.0 support (excluding integrated chipsets)
    HDD : 150MB

Your Diamond Stealth s60 with Radeon 7000 is at the absolute bottom end of the minimum requirements for Minecraft. Compare your system with the other requirements and see if you may be falling short there as well. My recommendation to you would be to launch Minecraft and click "Options" and then "Video Settings". Reduce all settings to the minimums and then run the game to check for improvement. If you still experience low FPS you may need to upgrade your hardware.

matt davis
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I am not sure if you are talking about this card:

ATI - S60PC

If so I think this is not really a very powerful card. But still you might have some options. If I am right you are using the card without any manual system changes.

So you could try the following to change the driver to a prorietary one:

Install Catalyst

Advantage: Faster - ((but proprietary))

Disadvantage: If the driver is compiled to your momentary kernel - you will have do recompile your driver again as soon as your kernel is changed cuz of updates.

But be warned as it is written here:

WARNING: Using a method other than described in the manual instructions section above by creating a .deb file can lead to extreme difficulties. Be sure to take note of the instructions for uninstalling the driver at the end of this section, since the driver must be uninstalled using the amdconfig utility.

Cuz if the driver is NOT working for you - you have to get rid of him again. Otherwise you might have no screen at all.

Good luck - and others managed it so you can do as well.

Peterling
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GO to video settings, disable particles, smooth lighting, clods smooth lighting. done.

Sean
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