»[Explanation] Types of lag and how to fix them.

Good evening, ​

There are many people who are confused in regards to the types of lag.
The majority of Minecraft players only know about the basic lag, which haunts you ​

if you are running Minecraft below 20 fps.

I'm here to explain another possible lag that you will encounter.​

1. FPS Lag​

The most frequently encountered by players are the FPS lag, This happens when too many things happen at once, for example, thousands of dropped blocks (sands, gravels) or lots of animals/monsters, a lot of TNT exploding and more.
Not to mention shaderpacks, if you are playing on an Intel Atom with Sonic Ethers shaders you'll probably finish Minecraft in 1 years. When playing on servers this is reduced, as the game engine calculations are running on another computer (the server), minimizing the calculations your computer needs to run and therefore giving you, as the player, more resources to play the game. This is the only kind of lag that is affected by the quality of your computer.

To reduce the lag you have, use Optifine. Lower the Render distance as low as possible. set all graphical settings to Low. You should also remove any unnecessary and fast-flashing redstone clocks.​

Still lagging? buy a new laptop or upgrade your CPU and GPU, GTX 750Ti/970 will do.

Recommendations

From @iSkeletonzHD
Intel Core i5 7100-U 4.2GHz Twin-Processor + Intel HD Graphics 520 (Around 30-100 FPS)

2. Server Lag​

Commonly happens in Creative, mostly caused by people using WorldEdit on a gigantic scale, for example..

Even worse.

You can tell if the server is lagging when all the players stop moving, you are able to grief protected area, water does not flow, you fall into a lava pond but still alive. Fortunately, the chat is still working. but that's no use for now since all players will shout the same message, "laggg".
Will usually be followed by a server crash, it'll restart by itself, though.
Trying to join the crashed server will give you an AbstractChannel$AnnotatedConnectException error message.
You can avoid this by allocating more RAM to your server, and a better CPU. Plugins such as ClearLag could be used too.


3. Latency (or, Ping)
Latency is a time interval between the stimulation and response, or, from a more general point of view, a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Latency is physically a consequence of the limited velocity with which any physical interaction can propagate. This velocity is always lower than or equal to the speed of light.

A player with a high latency internet connection may show slow responses in spite of superior tactics or the appropriate reaction time due to a delay in transmission of game events between said player and other participants in the game session. This gives players with low latency connections a technical advantage and biases game outcomes, so game servers favor players with lower latency connections, sometimes referred to as low "ping" times (typically measured in milliseconds). ​

Take the example of you placing a block in front of your friend. Firstly you have to click to place the block, that information then has to travel up to 20000 km (half of the circumference of the earth (do not use the radius because internet cables are not laid out straight through the earth's inner core)) to the server. Then, this information has to be processed and sent out to your friend's computer, which might be up to another 20000 km away. Traveling this long distance can take a while, not because light is so slow, but rather because there are a lot of routers and relays your internet data has to pass through. Other kinds of internet lag can include bandwidth issues, common in the event of a DDoS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack, where the server is bombarded with so many connections that it is unable to process normal connection.

The fix is, boost your internet connection.​

That's it. more knowledge for your hungry brain.
Thanks for reading, Though I know some of you didn't read the whole latency part.

Have a nice day!​

 

This is what happens when GC lags:

*server lags*

Me: Mad lag! Skakfkaldksllcbk
Randomkid19: laggg!!
TheStupidOne: OMFG LAG
103929: LAGGG
Flooder372: laaaaaagggggggggg
Tryhard101: WTF LAG I WAS WRECKING THIS GUY
MrBean69: lagg OMG help!!
MrGuyWhoPlaysAnotherServer: OMFG WHAT IS THIS SHIZ LAGGY SERVER!!!!!!
[And more people saying lag]

Krock: Please stop spamming lag guys, it won't help stop the server lagging!! Thanks for your co-operation

crykas: STFU kids are u all autistic kyskyskys suk ur mom saying lag won't stop it r3tards!!!

 

Well explained, keep up the good work A CPU doesn't affect the FPS counter a lot. A GPU is the main reason for having the respective fps amount.

 

Well explained @CyberHazard, keep up the good work

 

Minecraft mostly is about how good the cpu is and how much ram allocated because Minecraft doesn't have "good" graphics like a fps shooter, (Crysis 3, battlefied 3, ect) so you are wrong

 

You're wrong. You may have the best CPU out here and still get low fps with a low gpu, you need a gpu to get a picture.

 

I'll add that

 

E.g: Intel Core i5 7100-U 4.2GHz Twin-Processor + Intel HD Graphics 520

That'll still remand your FPS at around an average 30 to 100. It'll however not get over that top, unless otherwise you have additional processors and/or graphic cards of the same type.

 

Its nice, it helped me get 200+ fps with gtx 970

 

Great job on the tutorial ^_^

 

Good stuff , for me latency is the worst part I get crappy connection to the server