Sincere apologies to all Minecraft* game users who may have recently experienced slowdown on Intel products. This slowdown would have been seen by users who have generated a new worldmap on latest Minecraft 1.6 release which was released on the 1st week of July. While we at Intel are working on a driver fix to address this issue and will make available as a future driver update on the Intel web site, we are providing a temporary workaround to gamers now. We recommend that Minecraft gamers download the minecraft_opt_on.reg file from http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=23041 and double-click the file to apply this workaround. Please restart the game and this workaround should fix the slowdown issue. As always, please upgrade to the latest driver which can be downloaded from your computer manufacturer or from the Intel Download Center at http://downloadcenter.intel.com .
[July 29, 2013 Update:>> The REG workaround has been removed from the Intel Download Center website and is no longer needed. Mojang updated their launcher over the weekend to correct the issue. Special thanks to Erik Broes at Mojang for working the weekend to make this happen.]
Rae Santos
Sincere apologies to all Minecraft* game users who may have recently experienced slowdown on Intel products. This slowdown would have been seen by users who have generated a new worldmap on latest Minecraft 1.6 release which was released on the 1st week of July. While we at Intel are working on a driver fix to address this issue and will make available as a future driver update on the Intel web site, we are providing a temporary workaround to gamers now. We recommend that Minecraft gamers download the minecraft_opt_on.reg file from http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=23041 and double-click the file to apply this workaround. Please restart the game and this workaround should fix the slowdown issue. As always, please upgrade to the latest driver which can be downloaded from your computer manufacturer or from the Intel Download Center at http://downloadcenter.intel.com .
[July 29, 2013 Update:>> The REG workaround has been removed from the Intel Download Center website and is no longer needed. Mojang updated their launcher over the weekend to correct the issue. Special thanks to Erik Broes at Mojang for working the weekend to make this happen.]
Rae S.
Intel Customer Support