Making Minecraft on AMD Dedicated Graphics.

Gamer1234567 · Jan 27, 2014

I have looked everywhere, but I cannot find out how to make Minecraft run on my GPU not my CPU. I would love to run shaders and lots of mods on it but I need it to work on my graphics card. I have a Radeon R9 200 Series. I know that NVIDIA users can do this by right-clicking minecraft and saying run with card. If anyone has a solution please answer.

lmaonade200 · Jan 27, 2014

what processor do you have?

and check your AMD Catalyst control center, it should have the options for making profiles for different games (the Nvidia equivalent has this option at least)

Gamer1234567 · Jan 27, 2014

This is my processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113331. I tried adding Minecraft.exe to the 3D application settings, and I don't know what settings I should put it on. I tried Minecraft and it hasn't worked. do I have to restart my pc?

lmaonade200 · Jan 29, 2014

hmm, well there is an option to disable the integrated GPU in the BIOS, so if you want to mess with those settings you can.

Another thing you might be able to do (never handled an AMD APU before) is hybrid crossfire your R9 200 series graphics card with the A10 APU, I'm not sure where or how to do this and it should be easier/safer than messing with the BIOS anyway.

CupTheYoutuber · Jan 29, 2014

Gamer1234567 :

My HD 7870 is working with MC just fine by def, what version of java do you have? (64x or 32x, that can cause problems)? Also I'm pretty sure when you add something as a 3d app profile to CCC it auto forces it to run on the GPU if I'm not mistaken.

CupTheYoutuber · Jan 29, 2014

Also, how do you know what graphics adapter is in use? Minecraft does love to soak up CPU like its in the desert and the CPU is water. Cause if its just shitty framerate you could possibly be overheating and thats much worse. What are your full specs? Also what are your temps while playing on the GPU and CPU (Google HWMonitor or something like that and post the avg temps on both the GPU and CPU while playing.)

CupTheYoutuber · Jan 29, 2014

Also the R9 200 is pretty low end and very very slow compared to its counterparts and it, depending on the game, proforms like a APU or IG, It quite possibly could be in full use and that is your main bottleneck. Also what are your core clocks and memory clocks on it? Does it have a aftermarket cooler on it?

Edit: Also what is your AVG FPS so I can compare it to benchmarks of the same card.

Gamer1234567 · Jan 29, 2014

Yeah, this is my video card I think you got confused: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127750. Also I can go BF4 Ultra at 60fps so thats not the problem. I have tried everything including disabling integrated graphics in the bios. I go 60fps on Minecraft without shaders, but with shaders i go 20-40 fps. The catalyst thing doesn't work idk why but it doesn't. I have my monitor hooked up to the video card and every other game works perfectly fine.

lmaonade200 · Jan 29, 2014

wait you have an Nvidia GTX 760? the Catalyst center is for AMD cards so that won't work... I thought you meant that your GPU was an R9 200 series graphics card.

uninstall catalyst, and reset your AMD integrated graphics drivers. Then download the latest non beta drivers from the Nvidia Geforce website, then go into your Nvidia control panel (in control panel) and look at the 3D settings, you should be able to set Minecraft to run from your 760 instead of the integrated.

Gamer1234567 · Jan 30, 2014

No sorry this is it lol: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127760

James Mason · Jan 30, 2014

Minecraft is much more RAM heavy than anything, it doesnt have impressive graphics that actually require your GPU to do anything.
What's your ram situation look like? (speed and quantity)

Gamer1234567 · Jan 30, 2014

This is my ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428. For some reason I can only allocate 1 gb to minecraft though.

CupTheYoutuber · Jan 30, 2014

Gamer1234567 :

Oh! That might help quite a bit, I used to have that problem! You have 32 bit java installed by accident. Just go to the java website and track down the x64 version. Then you can allocate more then one gig.

Gamer1234567 · Jan 31, 2014

Yeah that made me have more ram allocated to it thanks, but I still cant run it on my GPU. I really want shaders to work.

CupTheYoutuber · Jan 31, 2014

Gamer1234567 :

What mobo do you have? You might be able to disable IG in the BIOS.

Gamer1234567 · Jan 31, 2014

This is my mobo: http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4716#ov, also I disabled integrated graphics in the bios and it still wont work. i dont know if this can be fixed.

Gamer1234567 · Jan 31, 2014

If this helps, I am trying to use the new volumetric shader pack that has the new clouds. I get about 9 fps when on fullscreen. All the other shaderpacks go 20-60 fps

CupTheYoutuber · Feb 1, 2014

Gamer1234567 :

Then its the shaderpack. If I'm not mistaken thats still in very early alpha. You said you had a 760? Then you shouldn't be using CCC. Do you have the latest NVIDIA drivers? If you dont go get them. You are also being very confusing, you say you have a r9 200 GFX card and have CCC but you also say you have a GTX 760.

Gamer1234567 · Feb 1, 2014

No I use a different card, I use AMD. Look at the latest video card link. Sorry i put in the wrong link before hand, they are thee same exact card but ones NVIDIA and ones AMD

Gamer1234567 · Feb 3, 2014

Anyone?

luigge_maciel · Nov 4, 2017

Try changing javaw.exe instead of minecraft.exe, as minecraft runs on java this will help you

Making Minecraft on AMD Dedicated Graphics.

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