Terribly low FPS with Tekkit

[Great_White]

So I tried to join my friends Tekkit server, it all went fine and dandy until I actually got ingame and experienced the wonders of 20fps with everything on lowest, now, you might think my computer is shit, it's not, specs are;

i7 920, 3.8Ghz

6Gb DDR3, 1333Mhz (2Gb assigned to tekkit via the launcher)

ATi 5850

Intel 320 SSD

Java 7u3

Latest version of Catalyst (12.4)

I've think at this point I've basically tried everything under the sun, and I still get 20fps, at best, at the lowest possible settings, so I have nowhere else to go ask for help, so I've come here, what exactly is the reason for my terrible FPS?

[freakachu]

is this on a laptop, by any chance?

[Great_White]

Nope, it's your standard X58 motherboard desktop

[freakachu]

generally, when this happens it's due to the PC trying to stay in some kind of power saver mode because it doesn't realize the minecraft is actually a real game. see if you can force your graphics drivers to always use full power mode or something like that for java.exe. I have no idea how it is done for AMD cards though, sadly.

[jwrebholz]

I'm having similar FPS problems with Tekkit. Vanilla Minecraft runs just fine, but Tekkit slows to a CRAWL after about a minute or two. 20 FPS would be great. I'm getting unplayably low framerates (less than 1 FPS, sometimes as few as 1 frame every 10 seconds). The launcher told me Tekkit needed an update, so I updated--and that's when it started.

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHZ

GeForce GTX 460 graphics

250GB HDD

4GB RAM

Java 7u3

Win7 Pro x64

It's an old PC but it still runs pretty good.

[Papanator]

I had this issue for quite a while, then I was messing around with my settings and found the problem (at least for me). Go into Video Settings > Quality > Far View (Turn this OFF). It is not the same as vanilla far render. It doubles the viewable distance. I took my FPS from 15-20 to 60-70.

Hope this helps :)

[Great_White]

Oh god yes, Papanator, you found the issue!

After turning this it off I now have 60-70fps running everything fancy (default fancy)!

Thank you!

[freakachu]

I didn't realize people generally used that setting. I'll have to remember this for next time someone has this issue.

[TheLemon]

hi i also have very bad frames per second here is my spec

3gb ram (few weeks time 8gb)

intel core processor i3

not sure about graphics card

laptop

64 bit windows java 7

i dont hhave bad fps when not recording its just when i start i have bad fps pls help any suggestions

besides new computer im on a dell aswell