Minecraft running poorly on Fedora

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I recently decided to download Fedora on my computer, and I noticed that the FPS in Minecraft is significantly lower than on Windows. I’m using a Dell Inspiron 3530 with an i3 100u chip (I believe it’s 13th or 14th generation). I’ve already downloaded the Cachy OS kernel, adjusted governors, and even the in-game graphics settings, but nothing close to Windows (20 chunks = 150 FPS), Linux (2 chunks = 80 FPS unstable). I tried searching for drivers and using x11 (which made it even worse for some reason). I really just wanted to play Minecraft. Can anyone help?

Also, if someone asks: 8GB RAM, 3GB allocated, Wayland, tried Wayland fix, I tried disabling compositor, high priority, and used net install (I believe that’s one of the reasons, but I’m too new to be sure).

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What GPU does your system have? If it’s Nvidia, you might need to install drivers for it to get better performance. If it is Nvidia, see:

Please post the output of “inxi -Fzxx” here as pre-formatted text using the </> button above. That will tell us what GPU and driver you have. If it says command not found, you can install it with “sudo dnf install inxi”.

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System:
Kernel: 6.19.6-cachyos1.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Forty Three)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 15 3530 v: N/A
serial: Chassis: type: 10 serial:
Mobo: Dell model: 04R6KC v: A01 serial: part-nu: 0C2F
Firmware: UEFI vendor: Dell v: 1.29.0 date: 02/12/2026
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 17.1 Wh (42.3%) condition: 40.5/40.5 Wh (100%)
health: good temp: 39.7 C volts: 12.2 min: 11.25 model: BYD DELL PG8YJ59
serial: charging: status: charging control: start: 50% end: 90%
cycles: 30
CPU:
Info: 6-core (2-mt/4-st) model: Intel Core 3 100U bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Raptor Lake rev: 3 cache: L1: 544 KiB L2: 4.5 MiB L3: 10 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4700:3300 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400
4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 bogomips: 39936
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-U [Intel Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Xe ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:a7ad
Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-6:4 chip-ID: 0bda:5574
Display: wayland server: [X.org](http://X.org) v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0xed8f res: 1920x1080 hz: 120
dpi: 142 diag: 394mm (15.5")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.3.6 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-U)
device-ID: 8086:a7ad display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:a7ad device: 1 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl, gputop, intel_gpu_top,
lsgpu wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51ca
API: ALSA v: k6.19.6-cachyos1.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off with: a2jmidid status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network
driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:b852
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 0bda:887b
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel RST Volume Management Device Controller driver: vmd v: 0.6
bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:a77f
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 32.77 GiB (6.9%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SM2P41D3Q 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: temp: 46.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 474.35 GiB used: 32.34 GiB (6.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 433.8 MiB (22.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 7.5 MiB (1.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 474.35 GiB used: 32.34 GiB (6.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.44 GiB used: 1.4 GiB (18.9%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: 50.0 C sodimm: 42.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 1697
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.44 GiB used: 3.01 GiB (40.5%)
Processes: 348 Power: uptime: 5h 39m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 258
default: graphical
Packages: 53 pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 41
pm: snap pkgs: 12 Compilers: clang: 21.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40
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Could you please edit your post and mark it as Pre-formatted text using the </> button? It make it really hard to read if you don’t do that.

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ooo thanks for saying and sorry for incovenience, im new to this, and im running into a problem where my system blocks me at 1.2ghz and 10w, i think this maybe is the reason, maybe

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If what you’re saying here is that you CPU gets capped at 1.2 GHz and 10 watts of power, then yes - this is the root cause of the poor performance in minecraft. It’s like saying I can only lap Silverstone in 8 minutes but I have 3 flats and the handbrake is stuck on.

Where are you getting thee numbers from (just so we can be sure your cpu really is being throttled).

If we fix this, then everything will be substantially faster

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thanks for replying, i solved it just by not using the cachy os kernel, but still the same problem with minecraft, i tried even cap at 4.7ghz and it just improved by like 10 to 20 %, dont really think this is a hardware problem, since windows is more bloated and have like,5 times the performance

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In a way, it is a hardware issue because it sounds like your CPU is doing all of the 3D rendering.

First, see if Intel’s GPU driver is loaded into the Linux kernel…

lsmod | grep i915

Then put aside Minecraft for a bit and run a simple test. While running the following demo, how many fish can your laptop handle while maintaining at least 30 FPS? – https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html

(Update: Your inxi output looks good with mentions of i915, Mesa Vulkan, etc., but it’s still possible that Minecraft isn’t using it, dropping to software rendering instead.)

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it handled 30k fish,then the temperature goes up, and it limited to 15w (maintaining 35fps), also i already checked, and even followed a guide from gemini, to trade i915 to “xe” driver, it boosted by like 10%, but nothing compared to windows, and thanks for replying

(i will also link a minecraft print, showing the gpu its using)

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30K fish @ 30 FPS is great for an iGPU (my old Intel i5 4200U / HD4400 laptop could only muster up 500 fish without Intel’s GPU driver and 5K with it). So at least your web browser has access to hardware acceleration.

How did you install Minecraft? (a download link would be helpful for reference).

(Although the Dell Inspiron 3530’s Intel i3 100U has 6 total CPU cores, only 2 are regular (aka. “Performance”) cores, the other 4 are “efficiency” cores closer to a tablet/smartphone CPU. The E-cores are fine for background tasks, but won’t help much with a game like Minecraft.)

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yea like i said, it could run insanely on vulkanmod on windows, like 250 fps on 20 chunks,its this the problem im having, also im using modrinth (the “original” mod repository, same that i used in windows, i dont really know if its about it being a new processor, and i just installed it cause the pendrive was 2gb and i was just wanting to leave windows, do you think cachy os, or arch would have this?

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“8x” for the CPU count is unfortunately a bit unintentionally misleading because the i3 100U is a (2) P-Core + (4) E-Core SoC. Each P-Core can handle 2 threads while each E-Core is single-threaded for a total of 8 threads.

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Intel’s i915 driver is bundled with the Linux kernel, so other than a slightly newer kernel in CachyOS / Arch vs. Fedora 43, I don’t see there being a night/day difference in Minecraft performance.

Since we already know that your web browser has access to hardware accelerated 3D, it’s figuring out why Minecraft doesn’t get the same benefit.