I'm not a programmer so forgive my armchair ignorance, but as a player I've found Minetest to run exceptionally smoothly even on 10+ year old hardware with crappy integrated video. On the other hand, Minecraft on a modernish Haswell based PC with a GTX 960 requires Optifine to run as smoothly as Minetest does on that ancient machine.
"(B)ig hairy ball of C++" or not, somehow it's optimized to the point that it feels more modern and advanced than Minecraft, if not as visually polished. My question is, is this purely a C++ vs Java thing? I've played some Java games that look and play awesome on older hardware so I have to wonder what the deal is with Minecraft.
"(B)ig hairy ball of C++" or not, somehow it's optimized to the point that it feels more modern and advanced than Minecraft, if not as visually polished. My question is, is this purely a C++ vs Java thing? I've played some Java games that look and play awesome on older hardware so I have to wonder what the deal is with Minecraft.