Solution: Minecraft not allocating more than 500MB

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I've seen a lot of people posting here that have this issue, and I've found one solution.

Starting a couple weeks ago my Minecraft would not show more than 499mb allocated to the game in the F3 (debug) menu. No matter what I set it to in the launcher, it would not affect in-game. Similar to other posts I read, I have well over the amount of RAM needed to play Minecraft (16gb). I found this issue to be caused by an external application somehow conflicting with Minecraft.exe.

Do you have Razer Synapse installed? This causes the issue.

I have found two solutions. (You don't have to do both, choose from the two)

1. Uninstall Razer Synapse. This application somehow conflicts with the game and will not allow you to allocate more than 500mb to your game while using Minecraft.exe. Another solution that may work that I have yet to try is installing the previous version of Razer Synapse, as I do not recall having this problem before the most recent update. Again, I haven't tried this, and do not know if it works.

2. Download Minecraft.jar instead of Minecraft.exe. This is what I did, and it works.

• To do this visit https://minecraft.net/download and scroll down to where it says "Minecraft for Linux / Other" and click on "Minecraft.jar (86 KB)" to download Minecraft.jar. (Image)

• When it is finished, right click the file and click "Open with" and choose "Java (TM) SE Binary" or something similar. (Image) You will have to do this every time you open the game, or you can choose "Choose default program" and set it to Java.

I hope this helped some of you guys out! Please share this if it helped so others can know how to fix it. I know I have a couple of friends that were having the same issue.

If you have any questions let me know!

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