Hey... Is it just me or is The Nether on the Tekkit server completely unplayable due to extreme amounts of lag.

I'm not talking little spurts I'm talking HUGE drops constantly, my FPS on average is 80 - 90 but as soon as I go into the Nether, it starts off at 80 then suddenly drops down to 2 or even freezes completely!

I have a feeling it's because of all the active fires going on and around the "Main Spawn" in The Nether.

Can anything be done about this? Or is it worth, quite literally, setting up 5 Nukes near the entrance and calling it a day?...

Tekkit is laggy already and with all the lava , pigmen , fire and constant explosions I don't think the nether will ever be lagg free sorry.... After all hell is hell .
Btw nukes are nerfed to something like 2 blocks of damage so you'd need an awful lot of em to blow up the nether .

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Last time I went there it was managable but rough. That was a few weeks back I think. IMO we may have to put some restrictions on nether activity as Tekkit weapons tend to cause entity spam due to netherack being a bit fragile. Either that or ask Broonie to issue black-hole bands to everyone or add a plugin that mops up netherack entities.

Also see: Not just a hole in the ground: its a hole in the ground ON FIRE

Also I'd forgotten about ore-explosions. I get the impression they will chain sometimes.

Sometimes?! Man, you walk into that place and every other block is on fire! Haha

Needless to say I won't be going to the nether any time soon... Not unless I use the "Cray Titan" ... Very much doubt the folks at Cray Inc would allow me to play Minecraft on that =P

To partially explain it, Tekkits is running on a version of MC that had bad Nether performance.

Bad but it can be managable. It seems to get very bad at times which I think coincide with stuff blowing up. It might be fires but I suspect loose entities and the lag peaks are probably laggy chunks loading.

1.2.5 was a version known to have bad nether performance.

Just as an update I've found it IS the fire animations that are lagging the Nether quite badly.

Easy way around this

Esc>Video Options>Animations>Fire Animation = Off

This puts the FPS at a stable level, granted the fires are static but there are no spikes nor is there NEAR the amount of lag.

Hope this helps people who traverse The Nether! =3

Very useful to know. Thanks!

Heh on tekkit my settings always animations off ive never really had to many lag problems


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That will be useful to know HellGriff thanks

I've actually become used to the lag spikes. I've found that on occasion it gives me a split second of thinking time to dodge incoming lava

Turning the particles setting down to minimal along with the fire animation setting helps in my experience.

(well... that and staring constantly at the floor like an extra in a Blair Witch ripoff...)