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Topic: MacBook Pro poor performance on Minecraft

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daily365

Hello, I have an MacBook Pro Intel Core i9, 16GB and AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB. However, there was one thing I did not understand. It has a graphics card, but I discovered that it also uses the integrated graphics. Minecraft is an example.
Comparing even with optifine I have terrible graphics and poor performance. I think the game is using the integrated board instead of the dedicated card.
Im using the optifine, which increases performance and adds shaders. But it did not work. Many bugs happen.
The Shader Pack I'm using is this: https://wminecraft.net/bsl-shaders-mod-shaderpack-for-minecraft/
Can you help me?

daily365

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Maybe you should post this on a Minecraft or Mac forum.

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RR529

My (Windows) gaming laptop is similar too, in that it has both integrated graphics & a dedicated gaming GPU, which occasionally has the same issue (it's supposed to know when to use which processor, but will sometimes choose the integrated graphics chip when I'm running a game anyways), however in the settings I'm able to manually tell it which processor to use for each application, which has fixed the issue the handful of times it has happened to me.

I don't know why your MacBook wouldn't let you do similar. Try poking around in the settings.

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James781

MacBook is not made for gaming. Expensive, powerful but not for gaming...

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Maxenmus

Mac is supposedly better for people with professional design jobs as their hosted design software is (from what I heard) better than Windows ones... But I still prefer Premiere Pro because it's more user-friendly.

Ironically, Steve Jobs wanted the Mac to be user-friendly and have the Mac say hello. But it's more of an elitist platform tbh.

I love that they pointed out that this video was put together using FruityLoops, not Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro looks so complicated.

In terms of gaming, uh uh. Don't even bother, especially with a Macbook. Just get someone to build a custom PC for you. The cheapest ones that cost around $500 would still work 10x better for gaming than any Mac platform, period.

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Maxenmus

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@Maxenmus

It was like that 20+ years ago when the likes of Photoshop, Quark Express, and ProTools were industry standards and Mac exclusives. All three have been on Win for years now.

Fruity Loops has come on in a big way if you can do video on it nowadays.

Rambler

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well, like a few others on here have said, having an iGPU and actual GPU is quirky. as some games tend to swap between them.

and mac is usually best for doing work rather than gaming nowadays. 😅

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