Minimum Minetest Hardware Requirements Thread

[Whitenickel]

This thread is for posting the lowest hardware you've gotten Minetest to be playable at. Playable means that the game runs at 30 FPS. Here is what I've tested at:

1.6 GHz Processor
1 GB of RAM

With these specs it runs at about 40 FPS.

[celeron55]

It basically requires some 200-300M of free RAM and a graphics card that is not a complete piece of crap.

It requires Windows XP or newer or a fairly up-to-date GNU/Linux system. It has also been built on OpenBSD.

I have tested it on a computer on which it didn't run playably: A laptop with 256M of total RAM, 1GHz P3 and *very* crappy integrated graphics. FPS was something like 5, the colors were glitchy and it continuously swapped memory to disk.

[fabiosarts]

i got nice results on Intel GMA950 from my netbook with Linux mint and my sister's one with Windows 7 at the same hardware, i'm talking about 30 fps or more

[Merdico666]

1.73 ghz
1.24gb ram
Crappy Intel 915 Graphics Card(Stupid integrated graphics chips)

Yeah this laptop is an old Vaio from 2002 running XP. Couldn't run the actual Minecraft due to bad graphics card so I searched around and after about 3 laggy "minecraft-like" games I found this. Loving every second of it. I've never been more afraid of 2D sea monsters in my life!!!!!! Great job! I hope this will still work on my laptop as the updates roll in.

[al5xander]

256mb ram 1.4 ghz or somthing like that is mine and it runs at 30 fps

[ntpspe]

Well, I don't get 30fps, but certainly better performance than I do in Minecraft, AND with good detail and render settings (tiny on minecraft is fugly).

Advent 4211 netbook, no fancy gfx card, (unless you want to count the integrated gfx from the cpu) Intel Atom processor (no idea of speed :L) and about 1 gig of ram. Manage a steady 10fps, sometimes more

[Calinou]

CPU: 2.0GHz dual core Intel
RAM: 4GB DDR2
GPU: Nvidia 9600GT M
Screen size: 1440×900
OS: Linux Ubuntu 10.04
Renderer: OpenGL, of course

Runs at about 50 FPS, with view distance on 50. I get way better performance in Minecraft...

[hmsintrepide]

Computer : DELL Optiplex SX280
CPU : intel petium 4, 2.80 ghz, monocore
RAM : 3 GO
graphic card : 82915G (I use direct3d9, some bug with opengl)
screen size : 1024x768 (24 fps bloked)

[Staffs]

Ram: 256
Cpu: 1,8 Gb
OS: ArchLinux
And on fullsreen it goes like 25 fps Lol ?!?!

[Fishkilleur]

Computer : Acer Aspire One D250
CPU : intel atom N270, 4, 1.60 ghz, dualcore
RAM : 1 GO
graphic card : Intel
screen size : 1024x600

[sdzen]

hp g42 notebook
amd athlon p340 dual-core processor
3 gigabites ram
60 fps

[Kee]

Ram:2gb
Os:Windows xp sp 3
70-80 fps

[Myu]

OS : GNU/Linux Fedora 15 x86
CPU : Intel Core i3-530 (4 logical cores @ 2.93 Ghz)
GPU : Nvidia GeForce GT240 : 1920x1080 / OpenGL 3.3
RAM 2 Go

60 FPS Vsync, sometimes dropping to 30/40 when in the sky, 15 FPS when very high

[hairy]

Hi there,
having problems with the latest build 0.4.1 for win xp, I wanted to ask, what might be wrong here. Minetest runs, I unchecked in 'settings' all 4 boxes, but frame rate goes hardly above 30 (window size 800x600), and very often down below 5 frames. So, not usable. I have:

WIN XP SP 3
Nvidia Gforce4 420 Go 32M with latest drivers
Open GL 1.5.3
Mobile AMD Sempron 2800+, 1,6 Ghz
1,2 GB RAM

Is my hardware just not good enough?

Thanks.

(I just tried Minecraft Classic, and get there around the 30 frames, with rather low grafic settings.)

[Topywo]

Hairy, I experience the biggest drops of FPS in 2 situations:
When I (accidentally) pushed the r for range or in a surrounding with a lot of build stuff (added nodes)

[cosarara97]

Today I discovered I never got minetest to be playable at any of my computers. (But I'm getting a new one )
So yeah, I have a netbook and a desktop computer, both are atoms with crappy graphics cards and while the desktop has better cpu and more ram neither of them reaches the 30 fps in minetest.
But I'm fine if they are at more than 10 fps, I wouldn't be in this forum otherwise. I'm going to try minetest classic...

[Jordach]

Today I discovered I never got minetest to be playable at any of my computers. (But I'm getting a new one )
So yeah, I have a netbook and a desktop computer, both are atoms with crappy graphics cards and while the desktop has better cpu and more ram neither of them reaches the 30 fps in minetest.
But I'm fine if they are at more than 10 fps, I wouldn't be in this forum otherwise. I'm going to try minetest classic...

Thank you...

[cosarara97]

Today I discovered I never got minetest to be playable at any of my computers. (But I'm getting a new one )
So yeah, I have a netbook and a desktop computer, both are atoms with crappy graphics cards and while the desktop has better cpu and more ram neither of them reaches the 30 fps in minetest.
But I'm fine if they are at more than 10 fps, I wouldn't be in this forum otherwise. I'm going to try minetest classic...

Thank you...

At first it was at 10 fps, but then it dropped at 5 fps and then got a black screen (all that in less than a minute).
So for now the fastest version I found is 0.3.

[hairy]

Today I discovered I never got minetest to be playable at any of my computers. (But I'm getting a new one )
So yeah, I have a netbook and a desktop computer, both are atoms with crappy graphics cards and while the desktop has better cpu and more ram neither of them reaches the 30 fps in minetest.
But I'm fine if they are at more than 10 fps, I wouldn't be in this forum otherwise. I'm going to try minetest classic...

Thank you...

At first it was at 10 fps, but then it dropped at 5 fps and then got a black screen (all that in less than a minute).
So for now the fastest version I found is 0.3.

I just tried 0.3.1 - and it is surely faster than 0.4.1 on my machine...

Edit: Does it actually deliver better performance, when one installs Open AL?

[u34]

HP G62 notebook
AMD Phenom II Triple-Core Processor N850 2.2 ghz
4 gb RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 1024 mb

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit


50-60 fps

[madchicken13]

In Running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Updated with 512 MB of RAM and a 2.66 GHz Processor.
Graphics Card is a Nivida (Gateway) 4200 ,or something like that & its a piece of sh**.
And im running minetest at 20 / 30 FPS

[Death_To_Duncess]

I got MT to run on a computer made of ten year old scrap parts with only about 500 mb total RAM. The FPS at it's highest was about 25. Lowest is around 2. Average is 5-8. It runs Windows XP.
Btw I'm running 0.3.1

I find 4 FPS playable, but that's just me. Lol

[irksomeduck]

I run it at about 60fps on my 1gb RAM notebook

[nomohakon]

Piriform Speccy said: CPU - 2.60GHz, OS - MS Windows XP SP3 (under strict diet), HDD (aka The Bottleneck) - Hitachi dk239a-65 PATA 6.05GB - minetest have its own partition 500MB, RAM - 512MB.

OT: how to disable creating and writing to DEBUG.TXT ?

EDIT: Im using 0.4.2

[Calinou]

OT: how to disable creating and writing to DEBUG.TXT ?

Use the --logfile NUL option. To use it on Windows:
- create a "start.bat" file in your Minetest folder (the "root" folder, where you can see bin/, games/ and such), with this:

Code: Select all

@ECHO OFF
cd bin
minetest.exe --logfile NUL
PAUSE

- run "start.bat"

[EDIT] The '' option doesn't work on Windows, you have to use NUL (Windows equivalent of /dev/null) instead. Also changed the script so that you can run it from the root Minetest directory.