I have a 11th gen intel I 9 and 16 gigs of memory also a AMD Radeon R5 430 graphics card but it only lets me use 1 instance.

upgrade your graphic card

What should I consider upgrading it to?

@Bottlecap49 since you have an 11th gen i9 and 16GB of ram, do you have a budget or price range for a GPU that you might want to get? 😉

also that's strange that you can't run multi instance with that specs and graphics card.

once upon a time, a buddy and I ran a 2 instances of mincraft on MultiMC with a splitscreen mod and this was the specs of the PC we'd used:

⭐ i3 4th gen ⭐ 4GB ram ⭐ Nvidia GT 630

now arguably, that was a few years ago, but as I checked on a website, and our card, the GT 630, is apparently weaker than your card.

you can check here: https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-GT-630-vs-Radeon-R5-430-OEM

we ran minecraft on a local "Multiplayer" splitscreen mod, and it worked just fine. we used keyboard and mouse versus USB gamepad that time.

also, maybe you just need to try the "MultiMC" launcher. you can find it here: https://multimc.org

also, muti MC is allowed according to some posts here on speedrun.com that I checked, both right here: 👇

Is MultiMC allowed?

How to setup multiple instances of Minecraft?

Goodluck, and hope to hear if your problem gets fixed. 😁

Well I technically can run multiple instances of the game but when recorded with OBS studios it runs at like 17 FPS

@Bottlecap49 so there starts to be a problem when you run Minecraft with OBS? 🤔

are you using the vanilla launcher? or have you tried MultiMC?

maybe multiMC will solve it.

I use the vanilla launcher. I will try MultiMC and see if that fixes it.

I tried it but the recording is still really choppy.

@Bottlecap49 that's weird, probably an OBS/minecraft problem...

Maybe you could try a capture card and an extra PC/laptop if you have one handy? 😅

Is the World Preview mod allowed for 1.16+ Looked in the rules and it said it was allowed for 1.15+ and 1.16.1 is after 1.15

You literally answered your own question

Yeah but I thought that one of the reasons the 9:01 was rejected was due to the use of this mod so um idk

@Bottlecap49 its allowed, that was just a mistake in the twt video

Oh ok I watched that vid and I was like oh.. then I read the mod rules and got confused. So thanks

use sleep background

Would a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 TI be strong enough to run 6 instances of Minecraft or more and still record clearly?

Something like a GIGABYTE Eagle OC RTX 3060 maybe?

@Bottlecap49 the OC version? that looks like a good model. are you gonna buy it though?

Considering it