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Originally Posted by Revan.Prodigal.Knight
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.
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In addition, Minecraft wasn't exactly programmed with efficiency in mind. It was a little indie game that got rapidly popular beyond the original programmer's expectations. Mods like Optifine had to step in to provide the necessary memory and rendering tweaks, and eventually other programmers jumped in to add new features with efficiency in mind.