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While there are plenty of tips and tricks for what to do within Minecraft, not many people talk about how to boost performance.

Classic Minecraft Java Edition can get bogged down by shaders and modpacks that expand and update the game beyond its original scope. Fortunately, you can always just allocate more RAM to it so that performance doesn't suffer too much -- as long as you have enough RAM, that is.

Here's how to allocate more RAM to Minecraft, regardless of how much you have in your system.

Note: Minecraft Bedrock Edition can take advantage of more RAM without you having to manually adjust anything.

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This tweak is for the Java Edition of Minecraft only.

How to allocate more RAM to Minecraft

The Java version of Minecraft has (by modern standards) a relatively small quantity of allocated RAM, and without you giving it access to more through the launcher, it can't go beyond that.

That leads to poor performance or crashes when the memory runs out. Here's how to allocate more.

Step 1: Open the Minecraft launcher and

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