[h4x0rr]

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

[inigyou]

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

[Rohansi]

> The game used to run with 256MB.

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

[tosti]

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

[Filligree]

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

[inigyou]

That's probably because you got a new graphics card some time in the last 10 years.

[oliwarner]

The stuff they're rendering has to come from somewhere.

They go hand in hand, the bigger the render area, the more game has to be simulated at once.

[inigyou]

Not true. Render distance and simulation distance were decoupled years ago.

[oliwarner]

It's possible to simulate less than you can see, but it's pretty undesirable. The recommendations scale with this.