Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2 • Hacker News Board

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by mort96 » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

SugarReflex wrote: post #7

Is it safe to say that this positively affected me? For the very first time I installed Linux Mint on my old gaming with a 1080 TI and installed Minecraft/Steam. Minecraft ran beautifully and it is Java Edition 26.2. I've had a harder hit and miss time with games on Steam.

Did you have a bad experience with Minecraft on Linux before 26.2..?

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by mort96 » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:01 AM UTC

UnfitFootprint wrote: post #33

throwaway314155 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...

Raw performance wise yes. Driver wise… I think we can expect instability now game ready drivers are past EoL.

Why? "Game ready drivers" are just a marketing thing to add game-specific performance hacks to new games, you don't expect "instability" just because nvidia doesn't do that anymore

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by everyone » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

Last I heard about Minecraft was that MS was pushing AI written code updates, and the game is utterly fucked with insane bugs atm.

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by inigyou » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

nottorp wrote: post #38

notenlish wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They really ought to fix that exploit, at the very least disable the functionality for the time being until they find a fix.

The solution is to play only on private java servers that have modded out the censorship functionality. Of course most of those are closed or semi closed so useless for commercial purposes...

The solution is to ban so many accounts, including high-profile accounts, they can't ignore the fact they fucked up.

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by everyone » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

MindSpunk wrote: post #30

vips7L wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably just iOS since Apple bans JIT compilers other than their own.

Consoles ban JITs too.

Almost is if an iphone is a little console.

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by everyone » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

throwaway314155 wrote: post #26

SugarReflex wrote: post #7

Is it safe to say that this positively affected me? For the very first time I installed Linux Mint on my old gaming with a 1080 TI and installed Minecraft/Steam. Minecraft ran beautifully and it is Java Edition 26.2. I've had a harder hit and miss time with games on Steam.

Am I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...

A 1080 TI is a relatively good card these days still. With the insane GPU drought and price hikes that there have been for literally years.

Also MC is usually more CPU bound than GPU bound

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by mort96 » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC

est wrote: post #41

I hope Luanti (formerly Minetext) catches up

I don't think Minetest has much of a chance, it always felt like a loose group of programmers making a game engine rather than game designers creating a game. At least when I last tried it, it was completely devoid of any features to improve the game feel, everything (movement, camera movement, animations, mining, etc) just felt like a soulless "technically correct" implementation that a programmer without artistic vision would come up with.

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by ErroneousBosh » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:48 AM UTC

throwaway314155 wrote: post #26

SugarReflex wrote: post #7

Is it safe to say that this positively affected me? For the very first time I installed Linux Mint on my old gaming with a 1080 TI and installed Minecraft/Steam. Minecraft ran beautifully and it is Java Edition 26.2. I've had a harder hit and miss time with games on Steam.

Am I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...

Can confirm that a GT1030 can run Minecraft on Linux extremely well, but maybe you want to hang back from the really high-end shaders.

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by functionmouse » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

jchw wrote: post #9

I find this choice interesting. Vulkan is a sensible choice given the game is multiplatform (and of course they mention MoltenVK right in the announcement.) Despite that, I still find it interesting that a Microsoft subsidiary would make this choice given that Vulkan is a direct competitor to Direct3D and that Microsoft seemed to only begrudgingly continue to support OpenGL and wgl. (Am I hallucinating, or was there…

Direct3D 12 is Vulkan under the hood. GL is the real competitor, and it provides legitimate accessibility to small developers, which is why the industry is extinguishing it.

Re: Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Post by ErroneousBosh » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

UnfitFootprint wrote: post #33

throwaway314155 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...

Raw performance wise yes. Driver wise… I think we can expect instability now game ready drivers are past EoL.

Linux doesn't have "Game Ready" NVidia drivers, it just has NVidia drivers.

No need for the marketing sauce when you can already see the sizzle.