SKMCLauncher.jar is extremely slow (Mac OS X)

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  1. erichahn525

    erichahn525 New Member

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    Hello,
    I'm running on a MacBook Pro 2.66 ghz, 8gb ram, bla bla bla. Anyways, I've been finding that opening the skcraft launcher has been ridiculously slow recently. My computer is not filled with a bunch of apps, and I check permissions, clear caches and all that stuff pretty regularly. i.e. I don't have a bunch of toolbars or crapware slowing everything down. Java is regularly updated, and no other programs are really running, besides chrome on occasion, when I'm trying to play minecraft. Would anyone know why my temp jumps to 160 for about two minutes+ while the launcher is trying to open, and then why it takes another two minutes+ or so for minecraft to finally load? If anyone has any ideas I would love to have some help with this.
     
  2. Neonbeta

    Neonbeta Person who did stuff and things

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    Unless your laptop is a gaming orientated laptop or has proper cooling, that will always happen. The temp will always rise and it'll be slow loading, even with my PC it still takes a fair bit of time to load.
     
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    erichahn525 New Member

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    Sure, I mean I'm used to turning my fans up to 100% when I start playing any game to keep it under 180 or so, and maybe I'm becoming more impatient, but it seems to me that it's just been taking longer and longer.
     
  4. buttonsinpjs

    buttonsinpjs Active Member

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    Minecraft is pretty heavy on the hard disk. Especially when loading 100+ mods. I just had the slow loading problem on my PC. Easiest way to fix it is to backup your configs, screensaves, and minimap waypoints. Then delete Alice minecraft folder and get a fresh one from the server. Restore your backups and you're good to go for a few more weeks.

    Modded Minecraft is not optimized in any way. So, I kinda expect that things will go wrong eventually. A fresh install will usually fix minor issues like this.
     
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  5. gknova61

    gknova61 Farbes Lover

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    Or the server can get updated more often :p
     
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    erichahn525 New Member

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    That makes a lot of sense, I have the slowest drive, and when it's been a little cached it seems to load a lot faster. Thanks for the help!
     
  7. krazykhd

    krazykhd Do you believe in magic?

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    I have been working with modded minecraft on mac for about a year now and have found that just tweaking little things helps, also on macs if you make it so that java can allocate too much memory it slows down your whole computer and makes everything act wonky, like at times I loose the ability to click my mouse even when I'm able to move the curser.
     
  8. gknova61

    gknova61 Farbes Lover

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    Texture pack or not, you need to allocate more memory to run modded Minecraft.
     
  9. On a mac, Its like a brew of how much ram to allocate, Not too much and not too less, It needs to be just perfect, 1536mb of ram works well on my 4GB MacBook

    My Mac Specs :3
    MacBook
    13-inch, Mid 2010
    Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
    Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
    Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
    Serial Number ***********
    Software OS X 10.8.2 (12C3012)
    And both memory slots both each have a 2GB 1067 MHz DDR3 in them
    (Copied straight out of "System Information" app :p)