I have 12GB of RAM allocated to Minecraft through the Technic Launcher.
I have a far more than sufficient GPU/CPU/RAM setup to run this game with everything maxed out in buttery smoothness.
The game launches fine normally, but when I put Optifine into the mods folder it crashes about 5s after startup (don't even get to the Minecraft loading dialog), every single time.
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