Minimum Minetest Hardware Requirements Thread

[nomohakon]

This fast it never run before! Thanks!!!

[nomohakon]

Damn. It writes to another file.

[Psychotic]

nvidia 9100 card,AMD Athlon II X4 620 / 2.6 GHz with 6GB of DDR2 ram, can this run this game a decent rate?

[cornernote]

nvidia 9100 card,AMD Athlon II X4 620 / 2.6 GHz with 6GB of DDR2 ram, can this run this game a decent rate?

hell yea, thats not too mad a system

i run minetest games on my laptop which is a core2 duo 2ghz with 1gb ram.

[alex256]

i have a dell dimension 2400 with pentium 4 2.8 GHz ,1024mb ram and the intergrated intel 845g 64mb graphics card....minetest runs like crap on it..... it doesn't matter if on linux or windows...other games run fine ...minecraft runs at 50 fps...sauerbraten runs at 75 fps....i have a 32 mb pci radeon 7000 also...minetest runs great on it but minecraft and sauerbraten wont run at all....makes me think maybe its not the graphics card but possibly minetest is lacking support for intergrated intel card.....minetest doesn't work on windows no matter if i use the intel or the radeon graphics card....whats up with that? i also have another computer that has a radeon xpress 200 with 256mb also minetest does not run in windows with that either....it is also an intergrated card also in puppy linux it works but it runs at a lower fps than the 32 mb radeon....i dont understand what is the issue the computers can handle the games in puppy linux but not windows period....minecraft is a similar game but has more complex graphics and it runs wonderfully ...seems the issue is minetest...

[Traxie21]

Laptop: x60-Lenovo

Memory: 2G
Processor: Intel® Core™2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz × 2
Graphics: Intel® 945 Graphics Media Accelerator
OS: 32-bit
Disk: 32G - USB drive

[u34]

Laptop: Toshiba Qosmio X500-10U Gamer Notebook

Intel i7 1,6/2,8 GHz
nvidia Geforce GTS 250M
hdd: 500 gb

os: win 7 64 bit

[4aiman]

Intel Pentium 2.93 GHz
ATI ASUS EAX 1300 Pro
Win XP
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Total fps: 40-60.

BTW, Majong released Minecraft Pi Edition which works smoothly on Raspberry Pi.

[webdesigner97]

Intel Core i7 (4* 2.67 GHZ), 4GB Ram and onboard graphic card => 50-60 FPS

[buj]

i5 750 cpu, amd 5850 radeon gpu. Minetest runs at about 50-60 fps with default view distance and about 10-20 at max view distance. Is this good/bad? Can Minetest improve upon this?

[Mito551]

Intel Pentium 2.93 GHz
ATI ASUS EAX 1300 Pro
Win XP
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Total fps: 40-60.

BTW, Majong released Minecraft Pi Edition which works smoothly on Raspberry Pi.

Mojang* Mahjong is the game
minetest could that since quite a while. I remember someone posting about it on the forum

[tinoesroho]

M-my lappie runs Minetest 0.4.6 at ~50 fps with large-world gen (not LUAjit either).

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory : 3082MB (703MB used)
Operating System : Linux Mint 13 Maya
User Name :
Date/Time : Sun 21 Apr 2013 04:27:49 PM MDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : GeForce 8600M GT/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
Lid Switch
Power Button
Sleep Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Video Bus
Dell WMI hotkeys
HDA Intel Mic
HDA Intel Headphone
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
-Printers (CUPS)-
MFC9560CDW : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H
ATA ST9160821AS

[4aiman]

Intel Pentium 2.93 GHz
ATI ASUS EAX 1300 Pro
Win XP
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Total fps: 40-60.

BTW, Majong released Minecraft Pi Edition which works smoothly on Raspberry Pi.

Mojang* Mahjong is the game
minetest could that since quite a while. I remember someone posting about it on the forum

Minetest can't do that. I can make a video proof if anyone want to )
Also, I do not need any posts, cause I own Pi and it goes up to AWESOME 5 fps! ))))))))
Or should it be "((((((((", cause most of time RPi can do only 0 fps running Minetest?
Minecraft runs full-speed and looks way better on the TV screen that Minetest.
Also, I saw video on Youtube about Minetest port for RPi but can't find any real version available for download.

[braithwa]

Tried running minetest on a cubie truck. It runs lubuntu on a dual core ARMv7 with 2G RAM.
It installs OK form the package manager.
It runs at about 0.5 FPS, i.e. one frame every two seconds, but at least it runs.
Well, it was worth a try.

[sfan5]

Tried running minetest on a cubie truck. It runs lubuntu on a dual core ARMv7 with 2G RAM.
It installs OK form the package manager.
It runs at about 0.5 FPS, i.e. one frame every two seconds, but at least it runs.
Well, it was worth a try.

It should run better on a Cubietruck.
Are you sure you didn't use the software driver of Irrlicht?
You also probably need Irrlicht with ogl es support.

[Megaf]

The lowest configuration I was able to play minetest is on my Asus Eee PC 701.
1 GB of Ram
630 Mhz ~ 900 Mhz (OC)
Intel GMA 945 (Im not sure if tis a 915 or 945)

It plays at 5 FPS with maximum viewing thing set to 20.

Debian Wheezy 7.3.
I believe it could run faster with Windows XP, due to better Intel Graphics Driver for XP. However, I'm not installing Windows!

[hoodedice]

The lowest configuration I was able to play minetest is on my Asus Eee PC 701.
1 GB of Ram
630 Mhz ~ 900 Mhz (OC)
Intel GMA 945 (Im not sure if tis a 915 or 945)

It plays at 5 FPS with maximum viewing thing set to 20.

Debian Wheezy 7.3.
I believe it could run faster with Windows XP, due to better Intel Graphics Driver for XP. However, I'm not installing Windows!

You have intel drivers for Linux. I used it under xubuntu, and they rocked! It was better than the drivers I had on Windows because my games were faster, and yet better.

[Sokomine]

How about mobile devices? I'm astonished as to how well it runs on my phone. It's a rather cheap android one which was not bought for gaming performance.
1 GHz dual core
1 GB RAM (not really comparable to a PC)
Resolution: only 480x735 (that helps a bit as well :-))
view range: 20 (yes, that's not much)
fps: 24-30 (and that's really smooth :-))

[hoodedice]

How about mobile devices? I'm astonished as to how well it runs on my phone. It's a rather cheap android one which was not bought for gaming performance.
1 GHz dual core
1 GB RAM (not really comparable to a PC)
Resolution: only 480x735 (that helps a bit as well :-))
view range: 20 (yes, that's not much)
fps: 24-30 (and that's really smooth :-))

Which phone is it? Phones have GPU too so it helps if you could either post your phone or the chipset it was based on or the GPU itself. The brand of CPU matters too. You won't get as many CPU features from an Allwinner as much as you can get from a Snapdragon.

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[Sokomine]

Technical data of the phone:
CPU: 2x 1.00GHz Cortex-A9 (MediaTek MT6577)
GPU: PowerVR SGX (MediaTek MT6577)
RAM: 1GB

[GingerHunter797]

My step-brothers laptop has a 64mb graphics chipset. He cant run most games, and Minecraft fell out of playability around 1.7.2. He runs Minetest just fine. Processor is a dualcore 2.8GHz

[Krock]

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Operating system: Windows XP Home Edition
Main memory: 1984 MB
Processor: 3.06 GHz
Graphic chip type: SiS 661 (internal)
Total graphic memory: 64.0 MB
OpenGL version: 1.4.0

Result in a world with 7 players, no mobs, no mesecons:

[Josh]

My PC is:
Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2Ghz Dual Core
4GB DDR2 800 Ram
Nvidia Geforce 9500GT 512MB
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

In Minetest i get 60FPS with everything fancy (even shaders) in fullscreen and full range viewing enabled.

[Krock]

Have you tried out linux yet?

1 month ago, when I tried to switch from windows XP to Ubuntu LTS

Things which made me staying on windows XP and waiting until support runs out completely:

• OpenGL version 1.2 (not much better but 1.4 on Win)
• FPS were about 10-12 (meanwhile 18-26 on Win)
• "xorg doesn't work", fq off, I don't need you, I only need a graphic driver!!
• root password needed everytime, same as abrove, until now I had no need for a "root" thingy, so not in future
• the sound driver took 2 hours to work
• I wouldn't be able anymore to program in .NET (C#) on LINUX/UNIX
• "sudo apt-get install ..", wtf? no .exe or .msi? Damn, don't make my life harder than it already is!
• "Graphic card driver: VISA"?! NO! It's supposed to be SiS661 FX/GX!!
• total invested time: ~10 hours, reached: a multimedia system with a worse gameplay than on windows

EDIT as of 180130. Oh my god. Gravediggers found something that should better stay in the grave and rot away. This rant is clearly exaggerated and wrapped in some sarcasm (if anyone cares) - and today, it's now almost a year since I moved to Xubuntu (irony intensifies). The mainboard I used back then was probably already obsolete by that time or the hardware just wasn't working well any more. *shrug* everything works well.

[Novacain]

root password needed everytime, same as abrove, until now I had no need for a "root" thingy, so not in future

Windows: Congratulations! you just installed a computer eating virus! say good bye to this computer as we overide all setting and burn out the CPU!!!!!
(note: windows tried implementing a similar feature in vista. however, all the windows users raged at it)

linux: root password needed for virus to do any serious damage. your welcome.

"sudo apt-get install ..", wtf? no .exe or .msi? Damn, don't make my life harder than it already is!

help stop the windows plague. adjustment is minimal.

If you have enough harddrive space, you could laso run a dual boot with both windows and linux. Then you can still play those games ignorantly made for only Windows, and still bask in the freedom of open source software.