Recent content by knaar

- IGN: knaar - Age: 30 - Location: West coast, Canada - Minecraft, FTB experience: Since minecraft beta started (just a few days after alpha ended) and FTB since before (using custom mod pack) - Why are you interested: Seems lots of people in my time zone. Want to do some community builds. Also...

I am using optifine myself and it's much less laggy with optifine than without it. But I have a high end machine. It's just my graphics card that's ancient. I know it makes minecraft use 120% of my CPU (100% of one core, 20% of another core) and it makes my fan spin something crazy. And I may be...

Oh really? That's annoying, it really helps a lot for me. It is buggy sometimes though and I would suspect it would probably not work with some hardware. Maybe with a "this may render FTB unable to run or crash a lot, and if so, uninstall it" disclaimer?

If you haven't already, you can try installing optifine -- it's a mod designed to make minecraft more playable on older computers. There's a sticky on how to install optifine on this forum in tech support. It has about a million settings and most of them I have no idea what they do, but maybe...

Hi theEPiK1, fellow ubuntu user here. If xubuntu has nautilus do this: Right click the jar file, click properties, and in the permissions tab at the top, put a checkmark in the box that says "Allow executing file as program" and click OK. Another option is to right click and "run with Java"...

Hi I have Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with the official Oracle Java 7 64-bit and I have it working. I have to install the latest LWJGL though or I get a white screen and it hangs. This thread may help, it's someone with the exact same issue as you with vanilla minecraft and he solved it...