My main concern is fps rather than visual fidelity, though I hope to be able to turn my render distance up higher with sodium. 1. Ur_Mom-69. 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. Related Topics Meme Internet Culture and Memes comments. Phosphor is a Minecraft mod which works to optimize one of game's most inefficient areas-- the lighting engine. I am using iris with Sodium but most mods and texture packs require optifine for the custom textures. Reproduction Steps. Smaller better mods may be fabric but bigger mods tend to be forge because forge does a lot of work for modders, fabric does very little so for big mods they have to do all the work for the mod plus what forge would have done. 5 & 1. I would use Sodium and Iris like most people, but the server in question has resource packs that use Optifine pack features like custom entity models and emissive textures. 6 for 1. I already have a bunch of OptiFine alternatives. Half of the mods I use are incompatible with Optifine because it’s close source. 4. This list. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. 19 Comparison Lentern 3. CurseForge is a plattform for mods for different games, including Minecraft. 16. On my PC, it gets roughly 2x the performance of OptiFine (so about 4x the performance of Vanilla Minecraft) when tested under the same conditions. Still I get around 20-50fps, which isn't bad but it's not even stable and constantly jumps frames. OptiFine by default looks better for less of a performance bump. pages. ago. •. Do you guys know of any mods that allow for OptiFine textures but work with my. Vanilla (no mods) is a bit stuttery, still gets pretty good FPS, around the 200 to 300 FPS range. Vanilla (no mods) is a bit stuttery, still gets pretty good FPS, around the 200 to 300 FPS range. . Fabulously Optimized modpack provides all the functionality of optifine, but with much better performance and full fabric support. Pineapplepansy. It has been well-tested and is compatible with Sodium, and it often provides a significant performance improvement over OptiFine under similar conditions, especially if OptiFine is not capable of fully utilizing your graphics card. You can have both phosphor and lithium. Sodium is NOT Better than Optifine. So I'm guessing that lithium wouldn't be very effective on a server compared to the other two. this reminds me of the good ol days waiting for 1. 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. Sodium and Optifine aren't compatible, Sodium is designed for the Fabric mod loader while Optifine is either a standalone installation or Forge. Run this once to create the Mods folder, which will be in your . Optifabric allows you to use Optifine with Fabric. For the majority of players, it was a worthwhile option. 19 not quite released yet I decided to try iris with fabric because I missed my shaders. Alternate Fabric Mods for other Optifine Features. That's why people recommend using Forge ports of Sodium, Iris, Lithium, Starlight, etc. But Sodium has came out and it is far superior to OptiFine in many ways. minecraft, otherwise put mods in the mods folder. So i want to get a better fps on Minecraft and i use optifine,but i heard people say sodium is much better for FPS and im wondering if theres any way i could keep optifine connected textures and use sodium at the same time, like use a data pack that enables connected textures. 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). 4M. ReyManagan. 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. First I tried fabric and sodium, I went from 50~ fps to 70~ but it dips a lot. 151. Ginbriel • 2 yr. Fabric is the new kid on the block, that seems to be quite popular now and prefered when it comes to. 18, but I use this pack of mods as a replacement for optifine and get better performance: Sodium, Lithium, Starlight, EntityCulling, SmoothBoot, Ferrite Core, LazyDFU, Hydrogen, Krypton, BetterBeds. I like custom textures but so many of them require OptiFine. I'd say that's probably the main reason it's still so popular. Edit: Optifine 1. 12 as far as rendering goes. for create optifine because sodium is fabric and create is forge they wont work together. 1. 16+ clients which greatly improves rendering performance while fixing some graphical issues. I just played with it a bit. 0. 20 with Optifine version HD U I5 pre7 and Sodium version 0. 4. Then, today I read that Sodium was better than OptiFine and that it could help gaining more FPS. Yea I tried to replace optifine but there is no mod for connected textures and the. 8). Hi, I decided I would move from Optifine to sodium. Do. . Iris was designed to make shaders work with Fabric only because Optifine doesn’t play nice. 17. 5, and suddenly there are mods that do the same job, but better. Optifine: - Have Shaders and Zoom option. Best. ago. *Less lag with tnt than all. Zhaunlouk. The difference is that Sodium does a really quick pass based on the visible chunks, being way less aggressive and thereby still rendering. Sodium is better only in perfomance, but Optifine adds more customizations for the game. 16. Optifine vs Sodium FPS Comparison. Normally I use: Sodium (optimized OpenGL renderer mod, what people use instead of Optifine these days) . Sodium consistently ranks better for me. 20. 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. Sodium definitely if you use Vanilla or Fabric. 2 forge, so I can't use it for shaders. So, I'm playing the Crucial 2 Refresh modpack by Vazkii (not a promotion, just saying which pack I play) and it runs Sodium on forge, now, I usually use optifine to play with shaders and dynamic lighting, without optifine I'm unable to do this, does anyone know any shaders that are standalone or mods that add dynamic. There isn't a singular mod that can replace OptiFine, but you can use the following mods: Performance improvements - Sodium, Sodium Extra, Lithium, Starlight, LazyDFU, FerriteCore, Enhanced Block Entities, Krypton, Alternate Current, Advancements Debug. ago. 20. If I want shaders, I run MC with Optifine If I want other mods, I run MC with Forge. Sodium and Lithium are Fabric-only. Betterfps - Render Distance. Emissive textures with sodium (fabric) I am currently trying to get an emissive (glowing) ores texture pack so I can have a better experience while mining in 1. No. Sodium reduced pretty much all the stuttering and it had the highest FPS, bravo sodium. 最新の. If you have Optifine installed then it probably caused your problem. 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. 19. On optifine I get 70-700 max. What mod loader will you continue to use in 1. OptiFine wasn't just a mod for FPS boosting, but also an in-depth graphic mod that allowed you to change everything you wanted. What I do recommend is BetterFps, which is also compatible with OptiFine. Iris has additional shader optimizations that may make it way better with some shaders. That it’s better is debatable. 12 extensively enough. It works like any other mod. 1. But sodium is, in some scenes, more than 5 times as fast. - Looking at North Max: 300 fps. It has awful support on Fabric/Quilt. (Do note that they're for 1. With sodium and iris 1. I currently use optifine but am considering switching to sodium. ago. . ago. In terms of performance, Sodium & co. If you need/want other optifine features such as emissive textures, connected textures, capes and others there. Sodium using the power of gpu isn't something special. 6. 19. Almost seemed like there was more stuttering too. And no, I am not suggesting to implement X mod into the game. Iris on the other hand will have to integrate the features from optifine into their system. Optifine can be better(in my case) if you have an older low-mid spec'd computer/laptop, because sodium is probably optimized to better utilize features that some older processors/partsSodium is a free and open-source optimization mod for the Minecraft client that improves frame rates, reduces micro-stutter, and fixes graphical issues in Minecraft. Honestly, for me, Optifine doesn't compare anymore unless I'm using a modpack before 1. OptiFine isn't the only way to use shaders. 571 upvotes · 425 comments. ) SomeRandomPetey • 2 yr. It means that recent shader packs would not work with older versions of Oculus. There, click on Sodium, click Select mod for download, and then press OK. thats a great list! for the 1. 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. . they improve your games FPS. Linux - Iris (Sodium): 487 fps. 19. If not, create a new profile and choose IRIS+Fabric from the versions list. Are there any alternatives I could use? I'm obviously playing forge, which means Iris isn't an option either. 1. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. A Attlaan New Member Attlaan Joined Aug 4, 2021 Messages 6. 9. As of now, only Sodium 0. minecraft folder by default (unless you specify a dedicated GameDirectory in your profile to keep your mods. 2 → 1. 3. Optifine is basically becoming obsolete finally because it isn't an open project and the dev refuses to work with modders. I do not recommend FastCraft, as it is the source of many crashes and bugs. Bsl or sildurs or complementary. Hey all, I run sodium, lithium, and phosphorus as they give way more performance vs optifine. OptiFine does more things. Minecraft Java ~60fps + Anti-aliasing. 18. 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. *Less lag with tnt than all. Btw: why don’t you just test the performance yourself? It’s not a simple one or the other answer. sorry?I'm pretty sure lunar client has optifine built in (and possibly other optimization mods) along with shader support, hence why you get an fps boost. By extension, trying to run any of the "Caffeine" mods (Sodium, Lithium, Phosphor, Hydrogen) with OptiFine is impossible. ago. FreeSync Premium - This does reduce FPS but offers adaptive synchronization to eliminate visual tearing and more. 2 is really not that much that most people will care. If the player enjoys trying different mods, Optifine is a better choice. ago. It achieves much higher FPS figures by replacing the graphics engine that comes with Minecraft by default. Iris on the other hand will have to integrate the features from optifine into their system. The Fabulously Optimized modpack is the closest in terms of features, and as of right now the CEM implementation isn't complete and there's no support for custom skies (although such mod is already. It included new features for shaders. Reduce simulation distance, you dont need it that high. and download build-artifacts. LOL. 1. ago. also vulkan support could allow real raytacing which is not possible due to the opengl that java has. Iris and Sodium is pretty new. MCPPPP (search on CF, there is a mod by this name) You will need Indium for some of these mods to work with Sodium. Minecraft installations are not hard at all. 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. . Aside from the API, do any of these client-side mods need to be copied to the Fabric 1. 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. Starlight. . Also it took optifine like 2 months to get 1. Iris builds off of sodium and adds shader support directly to the mod allowing Sodium to technically now have shader support. 2 ones ive had good luck with including most of them WITH optifine. Unlike Optifine nor Lunar Client, Sodium does not have any of the issues listed above. It works on both the client and server, and can be installed on servers without requiring clients to also have the mod. For me, sodium + iris gives the best results. It's under 30 with Optifine. 20. Hey. 16+ which greatly improves frame rates and stuttering while fixing many graphical issues. Sodium has a bigger fps boost but doesn’t work with forge and also it can have steep fps drops occasionally and animations. instead of OptiFine these days. 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. Iris is better for shaders, but if you want other fancy stuff like FreshAnimations then OptiFine is the way to go. Now I know sodium is meant to be better and I want all the fps I can get, but really for me it seems the sodium doesn’t deliver the 600 fps that it says but. I'm always the first to shit on Optifine, but it can produce some stellar performance. 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). What are the mods I could use with Sodium to have basically all functionality of Optifine? For example: Iris, Entity Model. To add to that, OptiFine's mod compatibility is pretty bad. I want to use Sodium (or rather its Forge port, Rubidium) because Optifine pretty much doesn't improve performance at all on my PC, whereas Sodium is a dramatic improvement I want to use the gained performance to run a fancy texture pack that uses Optifine features for connected textures and cannot exist/work without themOptifine Unavailable. Sodium for optimization of chunk loading and light multithreading, which will boost your fps by ungodly amounts. 19. Rubidium + a bunch of other render optimization mods that are not compatible with Optifine gives me 60 fps. Note: This article is subjective and reflects the writer's opinions. In todays short Minecraft FPS Mod Video I take a quick look at a minecraft mod I have reviewed before; FarPlaneTwo! This Minecraft Performance Mod gives you. If you're not picky, Bedrock edition is free to. • 2 yr. But now it gets weird. OptiFabric + OptiFine OptiFine isn't compatible with Sodium, you should remove it. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. Fandom Muthead Fanatical Follow Us. That being said, there are Forge ports of both, they're called Rubidium and Oculus. Sodium improves rendering, phosphor improves the lighting engine, lithium improves general things like mob AI. g. With optifine 1. 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. But optifine does make your mod loading longer, but if you're doing vanilla or just light mods theres barely a difference in. r/Minecraft. There was only one time where Magnesium didn't perform as I would have liked, I switched to Rubidium and everything was fine. • 2 yr. Comparable to Steam Workshop or Nexus for mods for other games. When having Opfifine installed my laptop can run between 130 to 150 fps when capped at 150 (doesnt go mich higher, when increasing the limit). fabric mod loader/ for sodium lithium and phosphorlithium download…Zealousideal_Zone_69 • 1 yr. I know why, optifine has built in compatibility with shaders, sodium doesnt. Fabulously Optimized - A simple modpack for people who are used to having Forge and OptiFine and are curious to see what equivalents Fabric has to offer. Mods that have Optifine functionality . Join. ago. Sodium is just fps and lack all other optifine feutures (dynamic lights, shaders, zoom, etc. No, but Sodium alone is enough to drastically improve FPS performance based on many people's experiences. . I mainly play on a server, if that matters. Optifine boosts FPS (Image via Kenzo on YouTube) One of the best features of Optifine is the performance boost. However, OptiFine in 1. 1. Bedrock on the other hand is written in C++. And for the best optimization, don’t use Optifine, use Sodium and Iris. It is unlikely to be soon. Though the difference in framerates may vary depending on the user's system, Sodium is likely to provide higher framerates in most cases. ago. I looked it up, the Starlight mod looks quite interesting. Sodium is free and open-source, i highly recommend it. 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. For example, the original commenter said sodium + iris was better for performance, but for me optifine is better. Internal server ticks are on average around 60ms with Optifine, but well over 70ms with Sodium. 16. Starlight reworks the lighting engine, Optifine tweaks the rendering engine and a lot more, including lighting and things. Performance with Sodium should be flawless. However, If you're on fabric, you're in luck, almost every aspect of optifine has been recreated in a separate mod, all of which run better than. I also tried some with Sodium through Fabric which apparently was v1. 20. Switching to sodium - questions. The 1. Even a 10-year-old mid-end System can run Minecraft with sodium and all other fabric performance mods @32chunks with 120fps+. 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. These features are core to the server. 6 work with 1. If anyone knows any way i could meet this. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. r/allthemods. neptune-orbits • 2 yr. Fabulously Optimized - A simple modpack for people who are used to having Forge and OptiFine and are curious to see what equivalents Fabric has to offer. Lunar C. Sodium is a more stable mod, that offers a better interface, ACTUAL performance gains even on high end hardware, however, the modular nature of the Fabric API means that collecting all the mods for full functionality (lithium, phosphor, etc) is a pain, and the straight competitor to Optifine, Fabulously Optimized can really only be installed if. 7. I love optifine because of the zoom, connected textures, and dynamic lighting features but I want to use iris + sodium for other uses. Mods must respect the Minecraft's EULA. 16. Starlight is compatible with Optifine so you can use both. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. Ok!Essential has a zoom feature and updates 2 hours after 1. 4. 2keanon7. ago. Simply Optimized is a purely performance enhancing pack, with the only additional mod being Iris Shaders. Not entirely. Terrain generation is noticeably faster with Starlight over Phosphor. With Phosphor, the amount of time the game takes to generate chunks can be halved for some. I used it all the time. 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). Iris is better for shaders, but if you want other fancy stuff like FreshAnimations then OptiFine is the way to go. Pull all settings down to as low as you want, and if you are using your laptop for minecraft only, you can use likr 75% of your ram dedicated to minecraft. 16. . 19 support way before optifine. AzureAquatic • MultiMC • 1 yr. 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. Some mods outright crash or at the very least have rendering issues (e. Fast vs Fancy was a whole 1 FPS difference. ago. 13. The bundled mods have been carefully selected to be safe. Also, Phosphor isn't really developed by the same people as Sodium and Lithium, since the original creator (jellysquid3_) stopped developing them and PhilPro95 took over Phosphor. (This is in 1,8 and all versions, fps may fluctuate on higher versions) I have a pretty trashy laptop, normal Minecraft (lowest settings) I get 60-40 fps. [deleted] 3 yr. You're right, though. Heres a mod that lets you change gamma in game and have night vision without Optifine. sodium and magnesium are effectively the same for different platforms. In fact, Sodium also outperforms Optifine in pretty much all scenarios without any of the drawbacks. The steam deck should have zero problems even with "only" OptiFine. - Looking at the sky Max: 1076 fps. Also lunar client doesn't support mod. ago. Fabulously Optimized is faster than OptiFine, thanks to modern performance mods like Sodium, Lithium, and others. X, 1. X, 1. Radplay • 6 days ago. Almost seemed like there was more stuttering too. 15. 4 unless im running into some other problem. At the same time, Optifine starts causing compatibility problems much more frequently. OptiFine has way more options than FastCraft, but they both generally do the same things. Help. I want to make a video about vanilla vs sodium vs optifine performance on different biomes and worlds but it can take a bit of time, for now I just had time to try these settings which worked OK but it seems. But if Sodium manages 100 in the same scene on that machine, it's perfectly fine again. Optifine is for features. When you download Optifine, put the JAR file in the mods folder. It was built from the ground up to include that, along with better chunk gen algo, etc. You'll need the Optifabric mod. for shaders, you can use iris (although it is still in very early development and you'll have to compile it yourself). Forge, is one of the oldest mod loaders, but falling out of style, when it's not easy to push out new updates with it. 18. 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. 3 yr. It can greatly improve framerate, or in the Decks case extend battery life since the same performance can be reached with less resource usageOptiFine is the oldest, and buggiest, not a mod loader, only for "improving" optimization through more tuned graphics options. Iris is spefifically designed to improve your frames while running shaders. I basically made optifine without optifine. 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. 19 support way before optifine. 5. ago. Nevertheless, CEM claims to make Optifine-based CEM's possible and it works for the thrown entity but in my hand the model is bugged af. lordlucario_ • 1 yr. I think that is because sodium and iris use a newer opengl version to get more performance, so on older devices sodium loses a lot of it's fps in order to work on the device. Sodium only performs worse than a pack of performance mods. 16. youtu. Be the first! Explore properties. Final Thoughts The choice between Optifine and Sodium depends on the player’s needs. Comparable to Steam Workshop or Nexus for mods for other games. I'm going to be upgrading my macbook pro from 2018 to a new mac mini m3 and I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with apple silicon computers and whether optifine or sodium works better. Sodium implements entity, and Tile Entity culling much better, compared to any other mod that is compatible with, and is often used together with, OptiFine. However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet. As I said in your other post, generally speaking Rubidium and Oculus will have more bugs than Sodium and Iris, though this may be exemplified by the fact that most of the mods that would cause bugs are on forge. Sodium doesn't support 1. I mentioned it more in my other post, this one was more to show off the even better performance gains from the latest Sodium 0. Action-adventure game Gaming. ago. That's the description givin in the github and what people mean by it being an alternative is that optifine was used mainly to optimize minecraft under the hood, but it no longer. They are the two current best options for increasing performance, Sodium is if you have a lower end computer and want fps to be significantly better, but don't care about graphical enhancements (No. 19. I tried Sodium last week and am very impressed, and I tried Canvas as well but as far as I can tell there. I have looked at Animatica but that only allowed for animated textures. *some* people did get less fps compared to optifine. BetterFps has versions for 1. looking for some optifine alternatives for 1. The Fabulously Optimized modpack is the closest in terms of features, and as of right now the CEM implementation isn't complete and there's no support for custom skies (although such mod is already. piRsquaredh 2 yr. chiller105 • 3 yr. So i personally prefer the much higher performance with these mods over optifine. SomeRandomPetey 2 yr. Plus, I'd rather have Optifine. • 1 yr. 0 Fabric Ver 0. Switching to sodium - questions. 17? 1. Optifine can increase your fps by loading less chunks (bug) but Sodium can generally get better preformance unless the system is old enough that Sodium cant do much. For me, sodium + iris gives the best results. Hbop_5009. 2 Fabric VS Forge FPS comparison for vs OptiFine and OptiFabric vs Sodium and Iris Shaders 1. KinOfWinterfell • 1 yr. Render Chunks down from 32 to 25 (26+ and I noticed FPS drop almost in half) Under the Quality Tab, we go fancy for all cause i like things to look nice. 14. 4. OptiFine and Sodium are both replacements to Minecraft's rendering engine. If you are looking to use to shaders though, I actually haven't noticed a huge performance difference between OptiFine and Sodium, but your mileage may vary. Definitely not fake hype, as I saw a ~150 FPS increase on Sodium vs Vanilla, and a friend that I made get sodium saw an increase from 80 FPS to 170. With fabric and iris my gpu runs 100% almost constantly.