17. Phosphor (another optimization mod by the Sodium devs, targeting the built-in lighting system) . 4 Server > mods folder? I don't think so Also, a few tips regarding mods: Server-side: Use Starlight instead of Phosphor, it's much fasterMinecraft Sandbox game Open world Action-adventure game Gaming. Minecraft/Sodium would have to be changed to natively use it. Optifine does not increase performance out of the box and is closed source, it is widely accepted truth. 2 even though it is not the most recent version? I’ve wanted to use it for a while but I’ve held off because it won’t be updated for few more weeks or so. The subreddit for all things related to Modded Minecraft for Minecraft Java Edition --- This subreddit was originally created for discussion around the FTB launcher and its modpacks but has since grown to encompass all aspects of modding the Java edition of Minecraft. Going mostly GPU driven with compute culling and multi draw indirect should make the CPU work required for rendering almost negligible. Optifine vs Sodium FPS Comparison. - YouTube OptiFine is known for great performance. I tried Sodium last week and am very impressed, and I tried Canvas as well but as far as I can tell there. But optifine does make your mod loading longer, but if you're doing vanilla or just light mods theres barely a difference in. Of course you need to switch , Sodium is much better , i used to have optifine and record at 20-15 FPS , and now that i have sodium im able to record on 45 FPS , while not recording i get 80 FPS , and also you need to add some mods like : LazyDFU , FPSreducer , starlight , Lithium , and sodium extraModded Minecraft. 4M. ago. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. OptiFabric + OptiFine OptiFine isn't compatible with Sodium, you should remove it. Sodium or optifine? Attlaan Aug 30, 2021 Not open for further replies because of inactivity. Sodium vs Optifine. 18. r/Minecraft. It boasts wide compatibility with the Fabric mod ecosystem when compared to other rendering-focused mods, and it does so without compromising on how the game looks, giving you that authentic block game feel. 1. 40 Chunks Optifine ~140fps. curseforge comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment The performance in the current state is worse than just sodium with opengl (on linux; maybe a nvidia problem). When comparing optifine shaders vs Iris shaders the performance gain is massive more than twice the. 6 for 1. Also if you use sodium, which vastly improves FPS, you might be sad to find that sodium’s magic lies in optimising OpenGL, which means it would be useless for Vulkan (and also will crash). 571 upvotes · 425 comments. Increible_Subnormal. If you want (almost) full OptiFine feature parity, use Fabulously. ago. For FPS, magnesium would probably be the best. OptiFine and Sodium are two of the best graphic mods for Minecraft 1. I already have a bunch of OptiFine alternatives. 15. Optifine CEM (Custom entity models) Optifine Emissive Textures. No replies yet. if you see IRIS+Fabric, run that profile. 16 and better performance enhancing mod on the rise like Sodium, I wanted ask if you know any alternate mods for these following Optifine features: Optifine CTM (connected textures) Shaders. 9. That said, you can get even better performance by using eg. The Forge ports are alright, but Forge itself is a bit heavy. The 1. 20. Reduce simulation distance, you dont need it that high. soop4eck 1 yr. 16. However, I cannot find this kind of texture pack that allows me to do this while using sodium. If you are using a shaderpack and the sky starts flickering, I recommend setting PlanetSkyOverride to false inside config/advancedRocketry. 1. Any tips to improve performance with iris in 1. This list. sodium and magnesium are effectively the same for different platforms. [deleted] 3 yr. Optifine is a mod. Vanilla (no mods) is a bit stuttery, still gets pretty good FPS, around the 200 to 300 FPS range. 6. Simply Optimized is a purely performance enhancing pack, with the only additional mod being Iris Shaders. youtu. 12 as far as rendering goes. Windows - Iris (Sodium): 315 fps. 3. sodium optimize much more than optifine,but dont support shader,there's a fork named iris that support some of them,or canvas,that dont work with sodium,but offer some optimisations and its own shader support (not compatible with optifine shaders)for other features of optifine,there are. . Some mods outright crash or at the very least have rendering issues (e. If you selected the use custom loader option when installing Iris, you add extra mods in the iris-reserved folder in . Zealousideal_Zone_69 • 1 yr. Im not sure how exactly, but it definitely depends on hardware, plus other factors like mods. Optifine is the "easiest" way, but it's a client only optimisation which is not really compatibility friendly. x, 1. ago. I'm not sure if it works with 1. In terms of performance, Sodium & co. Optifine is a pain for modders since it's closed source. Join. OptiFine wasn't just a mod for FPS boosting, but also an in-depth graphic mod that allowed you to change everything you wanted. OptiFine and Iris. x and so on) and has more mods for certain versions like 1. 18. toml. Nope. Fabric and forge are Minecraft instances that will run mods and stuff like that, for more frames just use optifine or lunar. Every gamer likes to see an increase in frames, and. Sodium consistently ranks better for me. Most videos on it and even the mod page itself show that pretty much any pc with get at least a 50fps boost from it, but that's not happening for me. Sodium is a performance enhancing mod that greatly optimizes all the rendering code. 1. However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet. However, ever since installing the aforementioned, I've experienced strange issues with CPU and GPU usage when running minecraft worlds. Edit: Optifine 1. . OptiFine by default looks better for less of a performance bump. 1 and . ago. 18. OptiFine does more things. A Minecraft server I play in recently updated to 1. El día de hoy les traigo una comparativa entre el OptiFine y el Sodium, podrán juzgar y determinar cual tiene mejor rendimiento en Minecraft, en su ultima ve. The main performance mods - Sodium, Lithium and Phosphor do optimize themselves on your computer automatically, so no, I. If you use either rubidium or magnesium, make sure that you use Magnesium/Rubidium Extras as it has an additional performance fix. However, OptiFine since 1. "more performance" modpack (available on Curse Forge) have pretty similar performance than Optifine novaday, but they also add server optimisation, which make solo far more. "OptIfInE bAd!!1!" Well Halogen worse. Forge: A programming interface. Optifine can help make your game run faster. 17. I do most of my playing on a server and I'm not sure which of these will be relevant. My laptop runs amazingly with optifine (60-80 fps, vs vanilla 20-30), but is barely better than vanilla with all the optimal sodium mods (30-40). Iris on the other hand will have to integrate the features from optifine into their system. ago. Are there any mods i can use to replicate what optifine does (connected glass, grass sides, shaders, etc. To install in PolyMC, create an instance with the Fabric (or Quilt) loader, and then go to the Mods tab and click Download Mods. If Optifine offered dependable and impressive performance improvements, and the developer worked well with others, sure. BetterFPS is an option. Sodium and Lithium are Fabric-only. A large portion of Fabric/Quilt mods are incompatible with OptiFine. Optifabric allows you to use Optifine with Fabric. It is not much more compatible than optifine, it does the same full enginge-replacement and video settings replacement, which inherently has the same compat issues with other mods touching those regions as optifine does. Easy as that, nothing complicated. Sodium is really good for the latest versions of minecraft if you have more recent low-mid specs. 1 is one of the best pieces of news we can give to users with low-end equipment. apparently OSX stops supporting openGL at 4. 3. Rubidium has a large variety of performance-improving options you can tweak to make your game run much better, both in terms of client-side fps and server-side tps. This list will list recommended OptiFine alternatives by me (LambdAurora), so it has some requirements for mods to be listed here: They must be publicly available, if it's only accessible through Discord they are not eligible. 16. In this video we look at the Lunar Client VS OptiFine FPS comparison and see the best FPS settings for both vs OptiFine & Lunar Client (low end PCs). 2 to latest. 2 → 1. They're technically two mods. [deleted] 3 yr. 18. Umm. OF when the settings of Sodium are set to actually match default OF. 2, you will probably want to be looking into versions for those. 18. Terrain generation is noticeably faster with Starlight over Phosphor. AzureAquatic • MultiMC • 1 yr. I mainly play on a server, if that matters. I installed OptiFine and tweaked the settings a bit, getting around 30 FPS (with some drops, but still a miracle compared to the previous state of the game). Somehow it actually runs worse for me. Magnesium or optifine or chlorine for 1. Also it took optifine like 2 months to get 1. Optifine and Lithium will most likely be getting updates or new versions that work with 1. Sodium/Rubidium is 50 fps for me on 1. Fabulously Optimized which includes some of the best performance enhancing mods as well as mods which add support for some of the features OptiFine is known for (dynamic lights, zoom, resource. Also lunar client doesn't support mod. I'm not sure why but after comparing sodium and optifine, optifine can almost get double the framerate. I have a decent rig (R53600+3060 12gb+16gb ram) but when I play with 25-50 mod playthroughs, my fps dips to as low as. Sodium is an alternative to Optifine in the same sense. 16. ago. I like custom textures but so many of them require OptiFine. 4 unless im running into some other problem. Its why the dilemma exists, because they both have advantages and disadvantages, for big. "more performance" modpack (available on Curse Forge) have pretty similar performance than Optifine novaday, but they also add server optimisation, which make solo far more performant than Optifine alone My sister is playing in an older laptop and the game was barely working (around 5 FPS top). Aug 31, 2021. Create is forge and sodium is fabric, so optifine. Even though my laptop has a 100hz refresh rate, it still bothers me. Reply thetraindoctor • 512GB - Q1 • It's also very poorly optimized and likes to chug ram hard, but you don't need a beefy system to run it (unless you play with 200 mods). Optifine As far my testing went, Optifine seems to be compatible with the mods in this pack. 2 update for the Neoforge Mod loader will include code changes that will require mods to be built against it, not Forge. ago. Then install fabric with sodium and iris (maybe also indium and continuity if you want connected textures) and you can use shaders today. By extension, trying to run any of the "Caffeine" mods (Sodium, Lithium, Phosphor, Hydrogen) with OptiFine is impossible. So I'm guessing that lithium wouldn't be very effective on a server compared to the other two. Otherwise, if you don't want something like Shaders, you can go for a combo of Iris+Indium+Sodium+Lithium+Hydrogen+Phosphor. 151. The downside is there are no shaders for it yet, at least that I can find. I'm also aware that sodium uses fabric rather than forge, but I'm happy to. (Do note that they're for 1. ago. I didn't know that! I figured it out, I just got iridium and oculus, the controller mod I mentioned is working now. If you are willing to try out more unstable and experimental mods you can try Krypton and Tic-TACS as well for even more performance. I installed OptiFine and tweaked the settings a bit, getting around 30 FPS (with some drops, but still a miracle compared to the previous state of the game). Reply thetraindoctor • 512GB - Q1 •It's also very poorly optimized and likes to chug ram hard, but you don't need a beefy system to run it (unless you play with 200 mods). 1 is out already. 19 support way before optifine. Place both that and Optifine in your mod. Well, lets see what features these two mods give: Optifine: Use shaders:Yes Acces to advanced video settings:Yes Zooming:Yes Forge compatible:Yes Fabric. On top of that, VulkanMod is a complete rewrite of the renderer. What I'm looking for is a better Optifine alternative that can be downloaded as one single file and added to modpacks, rather than a bunch of smaller downloads that I have to individually keep up to date on as one becomes obsoleted by another newer version or fork of the same thing. Optifine boosts FPS (Image via Kenzo on YouTube) One of the best features of Optifine is the performance boost. 32 Chunks Sodium ~69fps. Optifine: - Have Shaders and Zoom option. Yes, that's the official one and yes, it should be safe. 5. 16+ clients which greatly improves rendering performance while fixing some graphical issues. Sodium Lithium Hydrogen. OptiFine was one of the best mods, if not the best mod, in Minecraft versions 1. ). Sodium is a new mod that massively increases performance, a lot more than Optifine. 2 soon. I know why, optifine has built in compatibility with shaders, sodium doesnt. Sodium improves rendering, phosphor improves the lighting engine, lithium improves general things like mob AI. 32 Chunks Optifine ~252fps. Same thing here on m1 macbook air. If you want to use shaders, then you could try rubidium and oculus. But since Optifine isn’t the great mod it was many years ago, it’s worth getting that suite of mods. For servers I recommend Paper. It is monolithic. you can use canvas if you really need shaders but it won't increase your fps a lot :) There are other mods you should consider. You don’t have precise control over what features you do and don’t get. Here you can share your mods and modpacks, receive support as a player or as a mod dev, ask questions and discuss Fabric! 16K Members. But Sodium has came out and it is far superior to OptiFine in many ways. As Optifabric support ends in 1. And for the bost well use the last version of create with flywell. long answer: still no. Shaders that work on sodium? I've always used Optifine and Forge but recently I foud out about Fabric and Sodium, and the smoothness of everything is unbelievable (my laptot is not a potato, more like a. Radplay • 8 mo. Fast vs Fancy was a whole 1 FPS difference. Note Optifine and default handle chunks differently, I had to bump up chunks to get it to render the same details on the sides, but even then 40 chunks Optifine gave the same as 32 default (and probably more. Sodium aims to be a zero-compromise rendering engine replacement that doesn't interfere with vanilla features. I used it all the time. However, the difference was not noticeable. 2. Don't use it though, it's abandoned. . 19. ago. I honestly didn't even know it was possible for an optimization mod to well optimize so well, i went from 20-30 fps with optifine (i have a garbage computer) to 20-80 E-I-G-H-T-Y FPS with sodium and its sooo good honestly yeah it sucks that you cant zoom in or use shaders with sodium but still i soo. 19. neptune-orbits • 2 yr. OptiFine is really old and hasn't had any meaningful perfomance-related updates in a long time. Sodium is just fps and lack all other optifine feutures (dynamic lights, shaders, zoom, etc. That's not going to be buttery smooth. Still I get around 20-50fps, which isn't bad but it's not even stable and constantly jumps frames. Sodium is a free and open-source rendering optimization mod for Minecraft 1. Optifine is also more well-rounded with its added features like Connected Textures, Custom Entity Models, and a lot more customizability. js file. Yeah but iris includes a version of sodium modified to work with it, so if. Nope. I do not recommend FastCraft, as it is the source of many crashes and bugs. There are still weird bugs in sodium that optifine still has but a big reason that it’s could develop so much faster is most likely that is uses a modloader that accelerates development and optifine is actually a native mod that injects directly into Minecraft without a modloader api or anything. Which should i use for better fps in enigmatica 6? Magnesium, Sulfuric, Helium and RoadRunner are the complete. ago. Some of the major issues of OptiFine include: It is monolithic. 4. This is to ensure the launcher downloads all the necessary files for OptiFine to be installed. x). Sodium for Minecraft 1. However, my gfs pc runs wayyyy better with sodium+ than optifine. Not so much for the performance aspect of it, but because I've been using it for so long and it does some graphical changes that I've gotten so use to. In addition, there are more mods that provide optifine functionality. With Optifine I usually get 100+ fps with lag spikes rarely happening, but with sodium reforged I rarely exceed 80 fps and get lag spikes happening extremely often, and increased lag when looking at oceans. 91K subscribers. Starlight - Rewrites the light engine to. Okay, now let's get into it. So at this moment, it's only a matter of time for both Optifine and Iris to have their. Join. 16 does not meet its former glory. No, but Sodium alone is enough to drastically improve FPS performance based on many people's experiences. 2keanon7. KinOfWinterfell • 1 yr. Performance. What I do recommend is BetterFps, which is also compatible with OptiFine. Below is the fix I found while browsing this sub. sodium does not support shaders. While OptiFine has extra features like better grass and connected textures, Sodium has better performance overall without the extra additions. 1 optifine preview 8. Iris alone drops my fps by like 59 compared to optifine. Iris has additional shader optimizations that may make it way better with some shaders. Optifine for a small fps boost, shaders and ungodly amounts of settings. 19 not quite released yet I decided to try iris with fabric because I missed my shaders. 14. Right, such as LogicalZoom and certain Resourcepacks that have integrated (and pretty basic) shaders. Sodium + Lithium + Starlight + Iris have been always completely open source, allowing for more to contribute than 1 person, and issues and bugs to be caught and fixed faster. 6. Indium. In my experience Sodium+ mods are very hardware dependent. 2 vs Forge. Vanilla (no mods) is a bit stuttery, still gets pretty good FPS, around the 200 to 300 FPS range. Yep ur not the only one I have a pretty high end PC, and i benchmarked vanilla on almost everything max (Fancy, all particles, only 16 chunks of render distance and simulation tho) VS optifine on what i tried to put everything low settings, and on the vanilla version i got an average of 502 FPS, and on optifine it was an average of 260 FPS, literally half of. iris in conjunction with sodium boosted my FPS with every single shader I tried 40-70 frames more then with optifine. Windows - Regular: 41 fps. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit I was trying to run sodium and slindurs fabulous shaders together and this happened, please help. a cool, but can you do shaders, connected glass, dynamic lighting, resource pack features, change hardcoded colors, name dependant items/mobs, random entity textures, emissive textures, custom colormaps, custom skies, custom entity models with sodium? 2. Optifine for looks, sodium for fps, I use sodium + lithium + phosphor and it performs better and loads much better. . This plugin should be fully safe to use. Final Thoughts The choice between Optifine and Sodium depends on the player’s needs. and i personally won't recommend the fabric modloader as it's quite unsable. But all are in early testing and likely have still many bugs. is there any way to use OptiFine texture packs by downloading some sort of mods? i have the CEM thingy for entities and Contuinity for blocks, but some blocks and entities still with bugged textures, and also random models for mobs not working. The difference is that Sodium does a really quick pass based on the visible chunks, being way less aggressive and thereby still rendering. I currently use optifine but am considering switching to sodium. We see FPS comparis. Rubidium is also a Forge port of Sodium, except it's maintained and supports shaders via Oculus (Forge port of Iris) You should use Rubidium as well as RoadRunner (Forge port of Lithium) and Sulfuric (Forge port of Phosphor. This is what I would recommend until the next version of Sodium is released (no ETA). g. *Less lag with tnt than all. Thanks. TLDR: basically Minecraft with Sodium seems to be the best choice for performance and battery life but Vanilla minecraft without mods is also a good choice. On top of that, VulkanMod is a complete rewrite of the renderer. 3 if that helps. i'm playing on Fabric with Sodium, Iris and Indium. Thank you! While some of the mods do work on a server, this is focused on the client. 1 my brother got an m2 macbook pro and rubidium works well with shaders (it slows down with. Its the other way around for me, fabric with Sodium+Hydrogen+Phosphor+Lithium makes the game way better than optifine. they improve your games FPS. Solid 100 ish fps (1440p, 32 render distance, on Linux with. With fabric and iris my gpu runs 100% almost constantly. It also depends on the device, if optifine is better you can use optifine and if sodium is better you use sodium. Improves game crashes Sodium Extra. Skip ahead to 1. FreeSync Premium - This does reduce FPS but offers adaptive synchronization to eliminate visual tearing and more. I’ve seen so many posts with bugs and shader performance, we need to face it optifine isn’t what it used to be. 6 work with 1. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. 5 & 1. · 11 mo. I personally use Optifine most of the time (except for speedrunning) because it has a lot of settings (for example dynamic lights) and you can use shaders. • •. : r/feedthememes. ago. 14. I did go ahead with Sodium Reforged though and it's a night and day difference in my performance (average FPS is much higher and far less micro stuttering). View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit Is there a way to combine sodium and optifine I'm playing on 1. Phosphor for Fabric. Radplay • 8 mo. Go to your %appdata% folder and then the . Shader FPS comparison. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. Iris is better for shaders, but if you want other fancy stuff like FreshAnimations then OptiFine is the way to go. My pc specs: i5 9400f 2x8 RAM GTX 1660 SSDThe subreddit for all things related to Modded Minecraft for Minecraft Java Edition --- This subreddit was originally created for discussion around the FTB launcher and its modpacks but has since grown to encompass all aspects of modding the Java edition of Minecraft. For FPS, magnesium would probably be the best. Download the iris and sodium installer and choose the download as fabric mods option. edit: Looks like they addressed the fabric api issue 2. • 8 mo. Lithium. The newer versions of optifine lack quality. Even when I switch to my optifine installation and runs a world in that, I can see my GPU usage spike to 100% when having frame limit set at unlimited. 19. ago. 3 at 1080PIt's fabric-only though, which is great for snapshots but every mod I actually like to use is Forge, lol. they improve your games FPS. Hi. MikemkPK. ago. The goal here is to determine the impact of each graphical setting that seem trivial on the number of fps displayed on the screen, on a good computer, with Optifine, because I think most of players use Optifine, it's more representative. Downvote this comment if this post is poor quality or does not fit the purpose of r/Minecraft. If you use either rubidium or magnesium, make sure that you use Magnesium/Rubidium Extras as it has an additional performance fix. Sodium - Minecraft 1. Slide MaxFrames all the way to the right to "Unlimited". ago. Smooth 60 fps at 32 render distance, Fancy graphics, Lamb's dynamic lights, etc. What is Fandom?. It either crashes the game before I load in or I get into the menu, and the game crashed right as the world is about to load. 19. Saw a old post on night vision for Fabrick/Sodium etc and thought id share. (not really but the fps enhancer is nothing compared to Sodium) Sodium is a minecraft mod made by jellysquid_ which can double or even triple FPS. ago. Radplay • 6 days ago. 16 which can boost frame rates by 400%+, often greatly out-performing Optifine Hello there! I'm the author of Phosphor and Lithium , which focus on optimizing the lighting engine. Since the other performance mods are open source, they have little to no compatibility issues. Optifine is the "easiest" way, but it's a client only optimisation which is not really compatibility friendly. 18. Sodium is a mod solely focused on fixing lighting and other backend fixes to optimizations, and doesn't even provide any settings to alter anything. Replaces Optifine with core performance enhancements and new rendering system for the game, alongside shader support from Optifine and specific performance edits made to Sodium for shaders. Fabulously Optimized is faster than OptiFine, thanks to modern performance mods like Sodium, Lithium, and others.