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Title: ideal MC hardware and software platforms
Post by: boxer on May 01, 2025, 09:39:21 am

Hey folks,

I love using MC and I'm running an instance of MC32 on my fully maxed out classic Mac Pro. My primary use for this computer is to run MC as a server. However, I gotta say, the app doesn't run smooth: laggy movements, frequent crashes, menus stopping to work, a lot of it could be characterized as unstable.

I'm also running OSX 10.4.6 (mojave). I am considering getting an NAS with a newer, much lighter, Mac Mini.

What's everyone else's experience?

What's the ideal hardware / software combo to run MC as a server?

Title: Re: ideal MC hardware and software platforms
Post by: JimH on May 01, 2025, 11:18:23 am

Can you update the OS?

You could try MC34.  We've fixed some crashes with malformed files.

Title: Re: ideal MC hardware and software platforms
Post by: Awesome Donkey on May 01, 2025, 11:23:15 am

I use a Windows 11 NUC with a QNAP NAS for my MC server and the experience has been great. Just make sure your network is fast enough to handle everything without running into network-related bottlenecks (and use ethernet for everything if possible), so that's my main bit of advice.

Title: Re: ideal MC hardware and software platforms
Post by: boxer on May 09, 2025, 09:00:58 pm

That's the thing. For this computer, I'm kind of maxxed out at OS Mojave 10.14.6

You would think that with 2 x 3.46ghz 60core xeon and 64gb of ddr3 ram would be enough but super unstable.

Will MC34 run on this OS?

Title: Re: ideal MC hardware and software platforms
Post by: Awesome Donkey on May 09, 2025, 09:21:27 pm

MC34's minimum Mac requirement is 10.13 so it should.