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Am I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...

I even (quite a few years ago) successfully ran an older version of Minecraft on a laptop released in 2003. That had a Radeon 9000 graphics with a whole 32MB of VRAM.

And yes, it was playable with IIRC around 20fps, with minimum settings and a performance-tweaking mod (Optifine?). I played it a lot, since that laptop was all I had.

Even 0ad (the open source RTS game) was playable on that.

That was maybe in 2013 or something like that, so the machine was "only" 10 years old.

I run modded minecraft at 1080p30 on CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1215U (8) @ 4.40 GHz GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.10 GHz [Integrated]

The Radeon 9xxx series were a beast, I envied the 9700 one from my Geforce 2MX.

A 1080 TI is a relatively good card these days still. With the insane GPU drought and price hikes that there have been for literally years.

Also MC is usually more CPU bound than GPU bound

Im so annoyed i did not pick up a few of those cards last year when we where decommissioning a old video editing system at work. Could have picked up 4x1080ti for about $100 + shipping!

Minecraft Java is notorious for running like absolute dogpoop regardless of the hardware. Most people play with optifine or whatever the current optimisation mod is

Sodium is the current fps increase mod at the moment.

Can confirm that a GT1030 can run Minecraft on Linux extremely well, but maybe you want to hang back from the really high-end shaders.

Raw performance wise yes. Driver wise… I think we can expect instability now game ready drivers are past EoL.

Why? "Game ready drivers" are just a marketing thing to add game-specific performance hacks to new games, you don't expect "instability" just because nvidia doesn't do that anymore

Linux doesn't have "Game Ready" NVidia drivers, it just has NVidia drivers.

No need for the marketing sauce when you can already see the sizzle.

You mean even a 1060 Ti...

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