- Hey, welcome back to the channel.
Now about a year ago,
I did a video on how to install Minecraft
on your Chromebook.
I'll put a link up here
if you haven't seen that yet.
It's one of my most popular videos
but a lot of questions have come out of that video,
mostly around the performance of Minecraft on a Chromebook
which honestly is not great.
That led me to doing a bunch of research
and coming up with this video
where I have three tips
that will make Minecraft on your Chromebook much better
if you follow these tips.
Now, how well these tips work
are gonna depend on the Chromebook you have.
If you have a very, very inexpensive one,
then you may not see as much of an increase
because there's only so much power
that we can pull out of lower end processors.
If you have a little bit beef for your Chromebook,
then you're gonna be able
to pull a little bit more power out,
and see a greater increase
but none of these steps are gonna hurt anything.
So you might as well give it a try
and see what happens.
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along the way, leave them in the comment section below.
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So with that out of the way, let's jump onto the Chromebook
and I am gonna show you these three different steps.
All right, so here we are in the Chromebook desktop
and before we get started,
I am gonna launch Minecraft real quick
so you can see what it looks like
before I make any of these tweaks.
I'm just gonna click here
and skip forward till it's loaded up
cause it takes a little while to load on my system.
All right, so here we are, we're loaded up.
And as you can see,
actually I don't know if you can see,
but it is pretty laggy.
Let me go ahead and turn the stats on
so you can see up in the right hand
or left hand corner
what we're looking at.
As far as frames, you can see it's like right around 20, 18,
or dropping down in the teens, there's 16.
So it's not great performance.
Now, we can go in and change some of the settings,
just within here that change the graphics
from fancy to lower and turn Vsync off.
That's kind of stuff
that will improve it just a little bit
but it won't make that much of a difference,
it's still fluctuates all over the place.
So I'm gonna exit out of here
and go back to our desktop
and we will do the first item
which is not gonna make
that much of a difference unless this is off.
It should be on
but you need to make sure that this is on.
So you wanna make sure
that you turn on the GPU acceleration.
So we're just gonna go out to Chrome here,
go to chrome://flags/#crostini-gpu-support
and I'll have these commands
and URLs and stuff down in the description.
You wanna look for this one right here
and make sure it's enabled.
It may be on default, switch it to enabled
and then close out of here.
And then what you wanna do
is go into your terminal,
and in the terminal, we're gonna do a sudo apt update
and hit Enter.
That just looks for updates for your system.
There may be some after you activate that GPU acceleration.
So do that, if it says anything but this,
if it doesn't say all packages are up to date
and at least a bunch, that need to be upgraded,
you want to make sure you upgrade those.
So you just do sudo apt upgrade
and then hit Enter.
I don't have any, but you may have a bunch.
It takes a few minutes
to run through all the updates you have.
Once that's done, restart your Chromebook,
just shut it down, restart it.
Then come back into terminal again
and do another sudo apt update,
just to make sure that you got everything.
Don't skip that restart
because sometimes the GPU acceleration
won't go into effect unless you restart.
Now, at this point, we have GPU acceleration on
or so we think,
but we can't check it yet.
So we need to install a little utility.
We're gonna do sudo apt install and then mesa-utils.
Just accept the things that's gonna install.
It just takes a minute or so.
Now, we have the mesa utilities installed
and we can run a command
to make sure that our GPU acceleration is on.
We're gonna type glxinfo-B.
Now, what we're looking for,
yours by the way may take a little longer to render.
I've had this on for a little while,
so it just pop right up
but the first time you run it,
it may take a little while.
So don't worry if it takes longer than mine did.
What you wanna is look for, is this openGL renderer string.
You wanna make sure this is the virgl.
Don't worry about this other stuff.
You may have a different openGL version
than I do or a different Mesa version.
Don't worry about it.
As long as you have this right here,
you should be good to go
with this first part.
So your GPU acceleration is on now.
So this next tweak we're gonna do,
we're gonna set a launch option for Minecraft
but in order to do that, we need to edit the menu somehow.
So we need to install a menu editor.
So we're gonna do sudo apt install menulibre.
Again, just accept everything it wants to install.
All these things I'm telling you to install
are absolutely safe, don't worry about it,
you're not going to mess up your system.
Nothing's illegal or anything like that,
everything is good to go.
Just let that install
like you saw it takes just a minute or so.
Once that's installed, just type in menulibre.
So we're gonna go into games and Minecraft launcher.
Now at this command line, don't mess with this first part.
Just click after it.
Make sure you got a space in there.
And then we're going to type --disable-framerate-limit.
So make sure that's in there
and you have a space in between the Minecraft launcher
and the disabled frame rate limit.
And just go ahead and close it.
It's gonna ask you if you wanna save, click save.
So what we just did there
was disabled their frame rate limiter for Minecraft.
Honestly, on the Chromebooks,
I don't really think this does all that match.
I have seen a lot of people say
that this increases their performance
but on the testing that I've done using just that command
didn't really do all that much.
However, using the GPU acceleration,
this command and the next item I'm gonna show you
is what gives you the significant increase.
And the next item is installing OptiFine.
Now, the first thing we want to do
to get OptiFine running, is download OptiFine.
So open up Chrome and do a search for OptiFine.
We're gonna click on that
and then go to downloads.
This will default to the latest version
that's available non beta version of Minecraf t.
If you don't know what version
of Minecraft you're trying to launch,
just open the launcher
and then look down here, latest release,
whatever you have selected in this box
is what you're running.
So go ahead and close that
and we're gonna download OptiFine.
Now this next screen that comes up,
I know this looks a little scammy
but honestly this is 100% safe.
Just wait for this countdown
in the upper right hand corner
and then click, skip.
And then it gives you a legit download button
and we can see that it downloaded to our Chromebook.
So close down Chrome, go into files again
and your downloads area
and you'll see OptiFine
and then whatever version you selected.
Just right click on that.
And we're gonna copy it
and then paste it into our Linux files area under my files.
If you don't see this, make sure you just drop down my files
and you should see Linux files in there, paste it.
So now we need to install
kind of an updated version of Java
and run OptiFine.
To do that, we're gonna go back out
to our trusty terminal
and type in sudo apt install default-jdk, hit Enter.
It's gonna go find everything it needs
for the Java development kit
and just select yes to install it.
Now, this might take a few minutes
depending on your connection and your Chromebooks.
So I'm just gonna skip until it's installed.
All right, so there we go.
The jdk is installed.
Now, if we do a dir,
so we can see that OptiFine
that we copied in here earlier
and we just need to install that.
All you need to do to do that,
is type in java -jar OptiFine.
If you just type in capital OP,
and then hit the Tab key,
it'll fill all the rest in for you.
Go ahead and install that.
Just select or leave the default folder,
it's gonna detect where Minecraft is and hit install.
It'll go and install OptiFine.
If it was successful, it'll pop up and say,
"OptiFine the fine is successfully installed,"
hit okay and that's installed.
We can go ahead and close down our terminal here
and launch up Minecraft again.
All right, so now we're at the Minecraft launcher
and you'll see if you drop this down,
you have this OptiFine option.
It's the same version of Minecraft that you had,
it's just running with OptiFine
that gives you some more options
to tweak the performance of Minecraft.
So you'll wanna select that
and then just hit play.
This is gonna warn you
that it's kind of a modified version of the Java edition.
Again, this is completely safe.
This is not illegal or hack software
or anything like that.
It's a legit plugin for Minecraft.
So go ahead and hit play.
All right, so we're back in Minecraft
with the OptiFine version
and to see what it does.
If we hit options, go to video settings,
you could see
that we have many, many more options in here
for tweaking the performance of Minecraft.
What I would recommend, is that you set this to fast.
In details, we want to make sure fog is on fast
and trees and snow, I would set those to fast as well.
Clouds, I normally turn those off.
The render distance, I'm gonna bump that down
a little bit to 10 chunks
and the max frame rate it's on Vsync.
What you wanna do,
is slide that all the way up to unlimited.
Now, some people depending on the machine
have different outcomes
depending on what you set this at.
So some people get better results
if they set this at like 30 or 60,
for me on my Chromebooks, I get better results
when it's on unlimited.
In the animations, we wanna turn particles to minimal.
Under quality, I would make sure
that better grass and better snow are also off.
And then just under other,
I am just going to go and turn the, it's already on.
I'm gonna show the FPS
just so you can see on the screen what it looks like.
So I'm gonna hit done on all those
and go in and we can see
what kind of difference it make.
Going into that same world, same area
that I was in last time.
All right, so here we are in that exact same area
when we were getting
like 20 frames per second down into the teens
and you can see that we're at mid 30s
as we move around a little bit.
We're not really dropping much below 30
if at all 28, there at 27
but we're definitely not getting down into the teens
like we were before all these tweaks.
Now again, OptiFine gives you a ton of different settings.
So you can go in and change all these
and find which ones work best for your Chromebook
to get even more performance out of the game.
But just with those tweaks that I showed you
those default ones
and the other things that we did,
we can see that we're getting probably another 10
to 15 frames per second, on average
above what we got from just the vanilla setup.
So there we go.
Hopefully those steps increase
the performance of Minecraft on your Chromebook.
I know on mine, it's worked really well on two of them
and gave me just a minor increase on the third one
which was a lower end one,
but it did have somewhat of an increase on every Chromebook
that I've tried it on.
So hopefully you're having the same experience.
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