Hello world.
So I was completely vanilla until today. It took some serious convincing but I finally broke down, got tekkit, and I love it.
I haven't really built anything yet but I'm already noticing astonishingly low FPS. On my vanilla server I easily get 100-120 on fancy graphics and far render. On tekkit I'm getting 20-30 FPS on fast graphics and normal-small render.
Normally I would dismiss this as, "well no shit its modded" or, "you must have installed something wrong" but what got me thinking was when I play vanilla my computer just about catches fire. It shoots out all kinds of hot air and without my cooling base it overheats and starts to lag from it. When I play tekkit there is little to no heat coming from my laptop even though I'm trying to run the same settings.
Is this normal? Is there a fix? I want to use up all my computers massive power to craft amazing machines in high frame rates but it just won't let me!
Any help would be greatly appreciated=D
Specs:
windows 7 64 bit
java 7
8 gigs ram
i7 processor at 2.2GHz
nVidia Geforce 5(something or other)
tekkit 2.1.1