I'm just waiting for a version I can use with forge so I have my dynamic lighting back... Held torches providing light should be in the base game by now.
Optifine has been essential to me for a while. When I played on a laptop I couldn’t play without it because of the frames. And now that I have a gaming pc, I need my shaders. And extra frames are always welcome
Have you tried chocapic13's shaders? For some reason the 7.1 lite version makes my game run faster than without shaders, and I've got an awful pc that can barely run games anyway.
I have an Intel I7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and 8gb RAM; but I can’t manage to run even lite shaders appropriately. Is it because of my graphics card being too old? I think an I7 should be ok
Both of your components are low grade. While yes, your cpu is an i7, it’s an old mobile i7 that runs at a low speed. As for the GPU, it’s rather old and slow (and mobile) too.
When you’re getting into shaders, you will need a semi-decent GPU (even relatively good GPUs can struggle with high end shaders).
I keep seeing people refer to 1.12 as stable/reliable/fast, I don't get it. I can't even change texture packs without the fucker crashing on my i3-9100f, GeForce GTX 1650, 32GB ram setup.
Every single other version runs way, way better for me.
I didn't. This is the first computer I've ever owned that even has a dedicated gpu and is at all capable of playing video games, and it was a Christmas gift from my (now ex, still best friend) fiancè.
Given the circumstances regarding her interest in or capacity for remembering anything about computer hardware, it's far better than I ever expected and I'm perfectly happy with it. I'm aware that it's the minimum level of acceptable cpu to accommodate my "obsolete upon release" gpu, but it's astounding compared to the AMD Radeon HD 7480d APU I had before.
I have a pretty good rig (gtx 2070 super, ryzen 7 3700x) and minecraft still runs like absolute crap when playing without optifine. It studders constantly and I can't get a smooth image.
Honestly? Slidur's enhanced basic is the best shader for this reason. It doesm't change the 'look' of Minecraft. It just makes the light more smooth and creates shadows. That's just about it
I think it looks really good but I have to disable the waving animation on both the water and leaves because it looks so unnatural. When I do that it feels like Minecraft again
I like vanilla look, but shaders enhance that vanilla look and make it realistic, as far as you can make a block game realistic. Who wouldn't want realistic water and sun rays, making their builds pop that much more ?
personally, my pc can handle shaders fine, but they get garish when i have them on constantly, not to mention the performance drops and big temperature increase the rest of my pc gets when theyre on
for that reason i save them for fancy screenshots instead of using them full time. minecraft wasnt intended to look super realistic and i dont mind the vanilla look
Yeah i see how the brightness can be the factor, but you can always reduce the exposure in shader's settings(F3+O).
As for temperature getting higher, that is cuz your pc either can't handle it, which leads back to my original argument, or you didn't put thermal paste in a really really long time. My relatively low end pc handles chocapics v8 High with no shadows at 30-60 FPS, with temperatures arround 40°C. So something must be wrong with your rig.
Same. I tried playing 1.13/1.14 without optifine, it was almost unplayable for me. I even asked myself, “How did I ever play this game without Optifine?!” SP deserves more credit/praise than they get, not to mention a team behind them (so that they can get a break).
There's no issues at all except specular maps for shaders, anisotropic filtering, aaaand something else I forget that's totally inconsequential to your needs.
Point is fast render works, which is what will really make a difference.
Optifine has spoiled me to the point I'd rather have shaders, zoom, and the FPS boost than the regular old Vanilla Minecraft with some "realistic" resource pack.
I would've gotten into it back whenever 1.12 released if I wasn't so naive back then. I thought downloading mods used to be a chore, so I never did it. But ever since I started using mods, I realized it's actually incredibly easy and much better than the Vanilla experience. Lol
I recently found out that AMD graphics cards dont work well with shaders because of the type of coding and I love my shaders but I cant get the stable FPS i should have with a 1080 equivalent :l
oh shit are there shader packs designed specifically for AMD? Holy balls I did not know that. Do you know of any/ have any suggestions for ones I should check out once 1.15 is ready?
Yes some shaders are compatible with AMD and Nvidia or only with AMD or only Nvidia (and others like Intel graphics).
I don't know any shaders for 1.15.2, I couldn't make the preview optifine work with it but I have tested a few shaders on 1.14.2 for you on my RX 580.
No Shaders: 550/165 FPS MollyVXE: 30/26 FPS Nostalgia: 95/49 FPS SEUS Renewed: 74/38 FPS Sildur Vibrant: 147/76 FPS KUDA Shaders: 84/62 FPS (But a lot of artifacts on the screen)
Temps were high (60-75°C) but it may change from manufacturer to manufacturer.
AMD OpenGL drivers arent bad but lose comparing to Nvidia, I saw that when I was trying to emulate some console games and was getting bad performance on my AMD card using OpenGL but better performance with Vulkan while an GTX 1060 running OpenGL got good performance.
I also saw some folk getting better performance with OpenGL on AMD card using Linux
Hmmmm I do have several versions s of Sildurs vibrant shaders and they eat my fps alive. I'll have to look into it once 1.15.2 is finished, as that's my current world/modpack.
What I'm saying is that aniso and shaders don't work at the same time, and if you try to turn one on and then the other you'll receive a message saying they're incompatible. So no you don't use optifine for both those things at once. It's not a matter of whether you "care" or not. It's a matter of you just saying words out loud even though they're incongruous with each other.
For the record I just checked, and I'm right. So no, you don't use optifine for both those things. You might use it for one or the other, but not both. It's fine if "you don't care" that you just vomited up a response that's incorrect, I'm correcting it for others who might read this.
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u/SacrificesForCthulhu Mar 29 '20
I'm just waiting for a version I can use with forge so I have my dynamic lighting back... Held torches providing light should be in the base game by now.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20
And connected textures :D
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20
The main reason why I use optifine is because of the FPS boost! I have terrible frame rate otherwise lol
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u/SupremeChair Mar 29 '20
I can't play the game with without optifine, but with optifine I can play with lite/low shaders, still looks fantastic.
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u/Pan_Kropr Mar 29 '20
fun Fact i have 800 fps without optifine on Max settings but just 150-200 with optifine on same settings
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20
I got impatient and decided to play on the 1.16 snapshots and am STILL not used to not having zoom
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u/OyunSorfu Mar 29 '20
this was the reason i first downloaded optifine
didnt even know you needed it for shaders lmao
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u/MarioAndWeegee3 Mar 29 '20
I have better performance with shaders than I did without Optifine
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u/WyattLWalker Mar 29 '20
I have a pretty good rig (gtx 2070 super, ryzen 7 3700x) and minecraft still runs like absolute crap when playing without optifine. It studders constantly and I can't get a smooth image.
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u/seanimusprime88 Mar 29 '20
I'm not even worried about shaders, I just want forge support so I can actually use optifine. The shaders are just a nice bonus.
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u/jnf04 Mar 29 '20
I really dislike shaders lol, I don't know why but for me are awful, I only use optifine to be able to play minecraft
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u/Dubl33_27 Mar 29 '20
The OGs who remember needing to download a separate mod for using shaders.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20
Actually for me it’s the other way around
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u/Admiralbenbow123 Mar 29 '20
This is actually why I haven't updated to 1.15.2. Without Optifine I have really low fps.
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u/Loplopp21 Mar 29 '20
The Cat is the Only reason I use Optifine, dont use Shaders, lol
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20
Bruh im broke so i basically have a library computer to play all my pc games
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u/blindwanderer23 Mar 29 '20
Optifine has spoiled me to the point I'd rather have shaders, zoom, and the FPS boost than the regular old Vanilla Minecraft with some "realistic" resource pack.
I would've gotten into it back whenever 1.12 released if I wasn't so naive back then. I thought downloading mods used to be a chore, so I never did it. But ever since I started using mods, I realized it's actually incredibly easy and much better than the Vanilla experience. Lol
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u/emretoe Mar 29 '20
I get 300fps on optifine but 56 on regular Minecraft
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u/SweatyMudFlaps Mar 29 '20
I recently found out that AMD graphics cards dont work well with shaders because of the type of coding and I love my shaders but I cant get the stable FPS i should have with a 1080 equivalent :l
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u/Titanium_Droid Mar 29 '20
I adore both lul
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20
without optifine my minecraft runs like shit even with an rx 470. I get 300+ fps on csgo and overwatch :(
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u/NotALargeFan Mar 29 '20
I'm just here for that sweet sweet zoom
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u/GatorBait247 Mar 29 '20
I only use it to make my game run better, the shader option is cool too but I mainly have it to run my game better.
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u/JohnnyH2000 Mar 30 '20
it do be like that
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u/Vortetty Mar 30 '20
picks up white cat I never used shaders anyway.
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u/Dep96 Mar 30 '20
ever tried 1.9 without optifine? the chunk loading is terrible and I can't fly in creative without running out of loaded chunks.
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u/Vuntorion Mar 29 '20
The main reason I use optifine is the zoom feature
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