Gimme terraria aaargh

This.

System requirements..... and plus you can't compare 3d to 2d.

I swear i heard someone else that said the same thing might as well pirate the game just to be sure.

If anyone is interested, the author of the Minecraft OptiFine mod (which greatly improves game performance) blogged a detailed technical answer to the question, "Why is Minecraft slow?"

http://optifog.blogspot.com/2011/08/understanding-minecraft-performance.html

TL;DR Minecraft is resource intensive program. It has a lot of things to process very frequently and is also written in JAVA, which is not ideal for complex games, so there is a relatively high overhead for running it as well. It consumes upwards of 1.5gb of free memory while running (1+gb consumed by minecraft, 500mb overhead for JVM), and it is recommended that there is at least 2-3gb of physical RAM in your computer to handle everything. I increased my memory allocation for the JAVA virtual machine to 2gb to even get the game to use texture packs with texture sizes larger than 16x16 without erroring out :p

It is. Expect a ban.

It seems like the original poster edited his post to mention that he pirated the game >.< If I recall correctly, it was originally a question about whether or not his lackluster computer could run Terraria if it couldn't run Minecraft.