PC Drivers & Software

[mirko93s]

Any version below 1.8 has major memory leaks. After few minutes of playing you end up filling your vram and then your ram, until your pc crashes.
This bug was introduced with driver 22.7 and any newer version I tried doesn't fix the issue.

It seems to be related to this: https://community.amd.com/t5/opengl-vulkan/high-vram-consumption-in-minecraft/m-p/607299
18 months have passed since the introduction of this bug but it has not been fixed yet. Anything I can do to solve this?

[MrWrightD7A]

Recently I faced this problem when playing Minecraft Beta 1.7.3. I put the driver version 2.2.6.1 - still "eats" RAM, but already 250-500 MB lower than it was on the latest drivers, but performance suffered (took away 5-10 FPS).

Surprisingly, but under Linux (I tested on Linux Mint) Minecraft works amazingly well: it doesn't consume any RAM at all (somewhere 600-800 MB), and at the same time the performance is higher than on Windows. Taking into account that Linux has the latest AMD drivers (not open-source).

Maybe AMD developers should conduct a parallel study of Windows and Linux drivers to find out what are the differences in OpenGL performance on both systems?

[Hamzasodi]

The memory leak below version 1.8 caused by AMD driver 22.7+ is frustrating. You can try rolling back to an older driver, reducing allocated RAM in Minecraft settings, or using mods like OptiFine to optimize VRAM usage. Also, report the issue to AMD support referencing the linked community thread to push for a fix. For now, staying on a stable pre-22.7 driver version might be the best workaround until it's resolved. click here

[colubgo1]

seems like there are massive problems regarding linux and 1.7.10 at the moment, a lot of people including me are suffering from this and no one knows why it is happening or how to fix it, its not related to which java you use or what kernel you are on so it is truly bizarre