can minecraft damage ur laptop??

No, Minecraft won't damage your computer unless it was already on its very last legs. Don't worry about it.

No, Minecraft won't damage your computer unless it was already on its very last legs. Don't worry about it.

No, laptops are meant to be used.

also do u think the black screen issue could be caused by my RAM stick like breaking? Cos my old laptop only had 1 8g stick and maybe that would explain why i get the wheel of death when i try to use the run menu from the black screen. Not rly sure tho

Unless your cpu/gpu is a potato it won't harm your laptop. Make sure you turn the fans up to prevent overheating.


How old was your laptop?

also do u think the black screen issue could be caused by my RAM stick like breaking? Cos my old laptop only had 1 8g stick and maybe that would explain why i get the wheel of death when i try to use the run menu from the black screen. Not rly sure tho

6 years old - it was a lenovo yoga touchscreen thing, abt 300 quid. I can't remember the exact model rn lol

A 6 year old laptop was probably at the end of its useful life anyways so the same problem would've occured without minecraft. Just my opinion but java is better than bedrock.

8GB is completely fine for Minecraft.

yh the minecraft website concurs i suppose it was just the extreme lack of storage on my old laptop that caused the problems tbh. Minecraft kept stopping on it as i ran out of space to store new worlds on.
I rly should have cleared out and updated the laptop before it got to that point but i suppose i was being lazy

6 years old - it was a lenovo yoga touchscreen thing, abt 300 quid. I can't remember the exact model rn lol

Was it one of those laptops with ~32GB of eMMC storage and a Pentium/Celeron/Atom CPU? If so I'm not surprised it ran poorly - those things are literally e-waste from the moment they're produced.

Based on what you've said about your new laptop, Minecraft should run fine so long as it's got a decent CPU.

No, Minecraft can run on more or less anything.

If your laptop consistently overheats that might be an issue but I had an old laptop that idled extremely high (rarely went below 60 degrees) and survived.

no i think it had 256GB SSD - it ran rly well for 5 years. Tbh I don't know what all the memory was filled up with, maybe i had a virus i didn't know about.
It had a 'Intel Core i5-7300U (2.6GHz), 7th Gen' according to the spec i found on the website.

What counts as a good core/ cpu? Idrk much abt computers if u couldn't tell ahaha

how come it was so hot when not running anything? Did u ever manually turn the fan up? (I'm not trying to give back seat tech advice here btw i'm just trying to learn more abt computers and things)

Also do u think manually turning fan speed when playing a game w/ a heavy load on up cpu is a good idea? or would a new laptop always adjust fan speed by itself?