The ping is too damn high!

[BritishShoop]

My ping in minecraft on ANY server, not just mcsg ones, is always stupidly high, like 100+
Its not my internet connection because in other games and stuff, I get 20-40 ping on average
Any ideas as to why?

 

[subtato]

In-game Minecraft ping is stupidly horrible, and should feel bad.

 

[ShaunDepro]

Minecraft's net code? 100 is actually incredibly good.

 

[subtato]

Minecraft's net code? 100 is actually incredibly good.

100 in reality means like 20.

 

[BritishShoop]

100 in reality means like 20.

Is this a similar situation as to why minecraft needs a bloody supercomputer to run at a decent FPS?
It doesn't look like the most graphically challenging game to run, but trying to make it look nice kills computers :L

 

[Matt_The Dreamer]

 

[ShaunDepro]

Is this a similar situation as to why minecraft needs a bloody supercomputer to run at a decent FPS?
It doesn't look like the most graphically challenging game to run, but trying to make it look nice kills computers :L

Completely different.

The FPS is usually bad. Not because it's very graphical or anything, but it's due to the amount of blocks. Each chunk holds up to 16x16x256 blocks, that's 65,536 blocks per chunk! Low render distance loads around 50-150 of them, far render loads up to 1000 of them, that's over 65 MILLION blocks to store in memory at one time. It renders every single one of these textures which are 16x16x6 pixels per block, but with advanced openGL it only renders blocks that can be seen, rendering caves and any block touching seeable surface.