[Revan.Prodigal.Knight]

Originally Posted by Bareon

Oooh... my last computer did that quite a bit, it was a laptop though and I got it a coolant pad to keep it from emergency shutdowns (which happens when the heat level inside goes too high). Minecraft is also incredibly resource intensive for what it looks like. I could run World of Warcraft easily, but Minecraft would overheat the computer. Possibly Second life may work the same, you never really know till you look at the minimum stats for a game.

It's really because Minecraft was written in Java, so it has terrible memory management issues (being Java), and the graphics aren't the most efficient either. Everything is rendered via the processor, it can't use any graphics cards.