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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by bobajeff on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:27PM (#12265808)
I'm sure Minecraft does a lot of impressive things on a technical level.

However, I remember running it just fine on an old XP machine with a 32bit, single-core pentium III and 2GB of RAM. In addition, this game has been available on smartphones quite some (phone model) generations ago.

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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by technomancy on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:36AM (#12266317)
> I'm sure Minecraft does a lot of impressive things on a technical level.

Actually, Minecraft is widely derided as being extremely wasteful with resources. And yet yeah, it still runs on my kids' 9-year-old laptop.

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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by Qwertious on Thursday August 11, 2016 @01:59AM (#12266509)
The smartphone version isn't the same as the desktop version - it was literally rewritten from scratch, and as such is much more performant, although it lost support for mods of the original version as a result.
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