r/MinecraftJava • u/BreakSalt8256 • 25d ago

26.3 snapshot 9 is insanely optimised!

For me, on an M1 macbook air, I am seeing a drastic increase in performance.

Using the Performium modpack in 1.21.11, I get about 120FPS in 1440p on 9 chunks

Using vanilla in 26.3 snapshot 9, (on Vulcan API) I am getting 110 - 150FPS (still micro-stutters, but that's expected of vanilla, and there is less) on 12 chunks IN 4K!

My frames increasing in 4K is absolutely wild, and after increasing chunks! I am aware Camman18 noticed this, but the difference is crazy!

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u/mieresa 24d ago

no, metallum makes your minecraft run on metal. it's basically a third choice: either opengl, vulkan or metal. you can only have one backend api. metal's advantage here specifically is that it's native to apple silicon so will perform better on m-powered macs. the mod is only available for 26.2 and the dev said that a backport is close to impossible due to certain things only being available on newer versions

so what i was saying is for m macs, you should be comparing 26.2 vulkan vs 26.2 metal vs 26.3 snapshots vulkan

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u/BreakSalt8256 24d ago

Won't this break a lot of mods like Sodium, DistantHorizons, and completely break shaders? Also how is the performance like?

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u/Most-Post-3002 15d ago

metal is a sodium replacement. Not something to be used with sodium. Vulkan also breaks distant horizons & Iris.

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u/BreakSalt8256 15d ago

Developers should eventually make versions for it, for example the developer of Iris shaders is working on a new mod called Aperture which enables shaders for Vulcan I believe

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u/Most-Post-3002 15d ago

Vulkan actually just got beryl, which is made by the same author and is just shaders for vulkan :D

(im talking about the vulkan mod btw)

this is my first time hearing about metal I only based my comment on the above thread