Is that ever since 1.8 made the whole game engine vastly less efficient? The game used to run with 256MB.
> The game used to run with 256MB.
These are system requirements - not how much the game actually uses.
Less efficient but faster, which is a fun combination. At least they seem to have improved FPS.
There's modpacks, e.g. fabulously optimized. It makes mc playable but 256MiB basically gets you to the Java runtime nowadays.