[MCPE-175112] 'Fancy graphics' option causes some sort of memory leaks and crashes on some devices

This issue exists since 1.20.10, while I hoped it would get fixed but it doesn't. The issue is about fancy graphics related thing.

During sessions, the game starts stuttering for awhile then crashes after/under 10 minutes, playing on multiplayer like cubecraft is the same but below 5 minutes as during testing.

This also somehow causes memory leaks to the point my OS crashes and causing my wallpaper fallback into stock ones and forced restart by its own, the issue exists even my old android device (android 10).

Turning Fancy graphics off fixed that issue entirely. No memory leaks, no stuttering, no crashes. can be played for really long sessions. Once again, This issue does not occurs in below 1.20.10

I cannot record anything due to memory leaks and therefore crashing my screen recorder.

This might be critical since some people are unable to play the game without turning fancy graphics off or without knowing the issue, and I hope there'll be hotfix for this.

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MCPE-178605 Fancy graphics option makes game crash after 5 minutes on Android Resolved

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MCPE-175116 Android: Lots of lag/freezes during gameplay, in inventory, entities, and tools Resolved

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migrated 2023-09-20T03:50:12Z

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[Mod] GoldenHelmet 2023-09-20T18:33:18Z

Can you give more specific details about the devices that this occurs on?

migrated 2023-09-20T23:43:56Z

I'm assuming this occurs on most mali-gpu devices since I don't see adreno users has it. Most of my devices were mali-gpu based and has that issue.

migrated 2023-09-20T23:43:56Z

I'm assuming this occurs on most mali-gpu devices since I don't see adreno users has it. Most of my devices were mali-gpu based and has that issue.

[Mod] GoldenHelmet 2023-09-21T00:39:44Z

Do you have the deferred renderer enabled (MCPE-173934)?

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migrated 2023-09-21T00:55:51Z

No, this is 1.20.30/stable release version and this was about fancy graphics option.

migrated 2023-09-21T00:55:51Z

No, this is 1.20.30/stable release version and this was about fancy graphics option.

VoicefulBread66 2023-11-14T22:32:49Z

I can confirm that this is an issue on my device (POCO M5, 4/64, with Mali-G57 MC2 GPU), and that it is still present in 1.20.41.

migrated 2024-02-07T01:58:14Z

I might add additional things with this issue. This appears to be more Mali-GPU related issues with the game, looking at my memory it seems normal.

Playing creative world with 12 render distance and speed up anywhere makes the game stuttering quite alot than what I tested on initial 1.20 release, then the game freezes out aswell making my phone locked itself up (softlocked). can't do anything even closing the phone screen so, forced restart is only option. This issue is even more common when playing on servers, no matter what render distance you have, this issue will occurs like the same. (Even 5 render distance).

Small note - it could be Mali-G57 MP2 issues since I'm seeing alot of people mentioning about that issue.

My phone specs goes -

Android 13 (OS - MIUI 14)

Dimensity 700 (GPU - Mali-G57 MP2)

6GB of rams

migrated 2024-02-07T01:58:14Z

I might add additional things with this issue. This appears to be more Mali-GPU related issues with the game, looking at my memory it seems normal.

Small note - it could be Mali-G57 MP2 issues since I'm seeing alot of people mentioning about that issue.

My phone specs goes -

Android 13 (OS - MIUI 14)

Dimensity 700 (GPU - Mali-G57 MP2)

6GB of rams

migrated 2024-05-17T10:40:46Z

Is this still an issue in the latest version?
I did not have any device with the exact GPU on hand, but tested with similar Mali GPUs and did not reproduce. I will still be trying though.

migrated 2024-05-17T10:40:46Z

Is this still an issue in the latest version?
I did not have any device with the exact GPU on hand, but tested with similar Mali GPUs and did not reproduce. I will still be trying though.

migrated 2024-05-17T15:04:30Z

Still an issue in the latest version.

This will commonly occur when playing the game with max render distance in local worlds, OR playing intensive servers with alot of players. (e.g cubecraft) the render distance on servers shouldn't be matter since it does occur even with lowest render distance anyways.

I've tested my playthrough again with fancy graphic enabled on servers, and looks like my game was softlocked within next couple of minutes or so, even with render distance at 5.

I cannot record in any way due to, well. the whole system softlocked and the recorder may likely crash.

migrated 2024-05-17T15:04:30Z

Still an issue in the latest version.

I've tested my playthrough again with fancy graphic enabled on servers, and looks like my game was softlocked within next couple of minutes or so, even with render distance at 5.

I cannot record in any way due to, well. the whole system softlocked and the recorder may likely crash.

migrated 2024-06-26T00:31:36Z

I'm not sure if this is relevant or the same issue, but I have an issue where the game is taking almost all of my device's memory (16 GB).

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migrated 2024-06-26T00:31:36Z

I'm not sure if this is relevant or the same issue, but I have an issue where the game is taking almost all of my device's memory (16 GB).

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migrated 2024-07-07T11:07:10Z

Someone should add versions 1.21 and 1.21.10, as this bug still exists with the new feature update. It should be mentioned that this is not exclusive to Android. It seems to happen on Windows 10/11 too.

migrated 2024-07-07T11:07:10Z

dragonHzx95 2026-06-27T19:35:40Z

Same here – I get the same issue on Windows 10

dragonHzx95 2026-06-27T19:47:16Z

Even after being forced to update to the latest official version 26.32, the issue still persists.

The game is running completely vanilla – no mods, no texture packs, no resource packs at all.

Yet the Minecraft process keeps behaving as if it is stuck in a perpetual "loading" state, with CPU usage constantly close to 100% even after the world has fully loaded and even when idling in the background.

Even when the game is minimized or running in the background (not actively playing), the Minecraft Win10 process still keeps CPU usage close to 100%, causing the whole system to lag.

"We all know Vibrant Visuals is low on CPU usage on PC. Check out the video demo and you'll see the issue.”