Distant Horizons Crash on Startup
Just to give some context, I’m running a system with 64GB of RAM, an Intel i9-14900K, and an RTX 4090. The other day, I had some time to play Minecraft and decided to try out the Distant Horizons mod. I kept things simple for testing — no shaders, no other mods, just Distant Horizons.
I created a brand new world, and once I loaded in, the chunks rendered fine at first. But as soon as I tried to move, the screen went white, the game started loading again, and eventually I got an “Application Not Responding” message.
I lowered my in-game render distance to 12 and set the Distant Horizons distance to 35, but the same issue happened.
Any idea what might be causing this?
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After uploading the file, click on Save and send the link.Sounds like GC pressure. How much memory/RAM have you allocated to Minecraft?
That seems to have been the issue — I checked and realized I only had 2GB of RAM allocated. After doing a bit of research, I bumped it up to 8GB and the game seems to be running fine now.
Should I allocate even more, or is 8GB enough? I’m not sure if it’s one of those “the more, the better” situations.
Also, is there anything else I can do to optimize performance while still keeping the game looking good? Any mod recommendations? Right now I have the in-game render distance set to 12 and Distant Horizons distance set to 60, and I’m seeing temps hit around 70°C — is that normal?
Temperature seems nominal. Distant Horizons do put a lot of load on the CPU so, there will be noticeable temperature increase. As long as it's less than 80, nothing to worry about.
Also yes, 6 to 8 GB memory is the ideal range for Distant Horizons.