they improve your games FPS. 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). View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit Is it worth using OptiFine 1. Puresteel_28 • 9 mo. It also looks much worse. TLDR: Follow the below instructions for more frames, and slightly more rendering glitches, enjoy! So in short, add sodium-forge-2. dualboileronly. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. Mods must not refer to a cheat client. sodium (wayyy better than optifine btw) shaders: iris (also with amazing performance) connected textures: continuity / cbt grass sides: LambBetterGrass dynamic. by Charlesreddit6758 . 2+. No, but Sodium alone is enough to drastically improve FPS performance based on many people's experiences. 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. Iris and sodium have mod compatibility as well. Comparable to Steam Workshop or Nexus for mods for other games. 1. 6. 32 Chunks Optifine ~252fps. 19 support, while sodium already had 1. are a lot better than OptiFine, that's for sure. On top of that, VulkanMod is a complete rewrite of the renderer. 20. 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. curseforge. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. AI Reducer is only for 1. Hello there! I'm the author of Phosphor and Lithium, which focus on optimizing the lighting engine and server components respectively so you can run the game on lower-end hardware. Sodium Ver 0. That's why sodium is perfect for 2014 + hardware builds. Optifine As far my testing went, Optifine seems to be compatible with the mods in this pack. • 3 mo. Sodium/Rubidium is 50 fps for me on 1. Optifine is a massive rewrite of the game's rendering system (which mods obviously have to use), but is closed source so no one can (legally) see what it it doing and adjust for it. The best version of Iris is currently the 1. You can change some settings in video settings to make it. As someone that migrated from optifine to sodium, you can 100% recreate the experience better and smoother with a few mods. I want to play enigmatica 6 but i want to add performance mod like optifine, anyways i saw people recommending magnesium (sodium reforged) and chlorine (also sodium reforged) and optifine. I only tried Sodium to see how much FPS I could get out of vanilla vanilla Minecraft. 6 comments. I now get little to no stutters, with battery life sitting at 5 1/2 hours. Do. ago. Sodium and Iris are made for Fabric, not Forge. Sodium reduced pretty much all the stuttering and it had the highest FPS, bravo sodium. Also it took optifine like 2 months to get 1. Personally, I've been using the Fabulously Optimized modpack, which includes some of the best performance boosting mods (Sodium, Starlight, Lithium, etc. However, all of its functionalities (connected textures, overlays) are only compatible. so i'm not using OptiFine. 6 through 1. But sodium is, in some scenes, more than 5 times as fast. Sodium is far better anyway. ShaksterNano 2 yr. properties file: Then, re-enable Performant, and enjoy pretty good performance!From my understanding, Optifine is tried and tested and works well but doesn’t give as big as an fps boost as sodium does (fps isn’t an issue really for me) but doesn’t work with fabric stuff? (Whatever that means). View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. It's under 30 with Optifine. Magnesium is a Forge port of Sodium. Betterfps - Render Distance. On the other hand, it has mods like ImmediatelyFast, FastLoad and C2ME, so in theory it is bit faster than FO. ago. You don't really need Vulkan for Minecraft. And for replacing optifine features: FabricCapes, OkZoomer, Continuity. 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. 19. Sodium is for frames. I used it all the time. Change settings in the video performance tab in settings to see what it could be. 16. 19. Optifine is on forge and sodium is for fabric. I personally just play 1. 14. 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. 1 fabric but sodium seems to be incompatible with optifabric the game crashes when I try to launch it. On the other hand, Fabulously Optimized has mods which add compatibility for resource packs that "require" OptiFine, as well as stuff like zoom and dynamic lights. Maybe there just won’t be a release for 1. A large portion of Fabric/Quilt mods are incompatible with OptiFine. Added Lithium and Phosphor to the benchmark. Hence things like Sodium (client render engine), Lithium (Server Optimizations (even SP clients have a built in server, it's been like this for years), and Phosphor (Lighting engine) mods have been made to supplement Optifine usage. However, ever since installing the aforementioned, I've experienced strange issues with CPU and GPU usage when running minecraft worlds. For the majority of players, it was a worthwhile option. 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. As an added note, OptiFine itself isn't even Fabric compatible without. lordlucario_ • 1 yr. Phosphor might work with OptiFine, Lithium probably will, Sodium won't. Optifine vs Sodium FPS Stress Test. My main concern is fps rather than visual fidelity, though I hope to be able to turn my render distance up higher with sodium. OptiFine does more things. Processor 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1235U (12 MB cache, 10 cores, 12 threads, up to 4. This list. Personally don't mind people using optifine, it's just it is much harder to debug a problem in your mod when optifine breaks it (which happens a fair bit, especially if your mod has rendering features) as opposed to sodium + similar because it's closed source and uses an old way of patching game files. Optifine felt just as stuttery and it had way lower FPS, a little weird that it performed worse than Vanilla. From there, find the profile titled ‘Fabric'. **The best max and med fps. 2, you will probably want to be looking into versions for those. 4. I average 60 fps, so yeah, very playable. Join. edit: Looks like they addressed the fabric api issue 2. Sodium is better in terms of performance but also use lithium and starlight. Starlight. In terms of performance, Sodium & co. Lithium is version 0. When it comes to graphical and performance enhancements, these two mods are at the very top and are used by millions of. View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. Iris builds off of sodium and adds shader support directly to the mod allowing Sodium to technically now have shader support. I mainly play on a server, if that matters. I dabble on lightly modded 1. It is not supported by the overwhelming majority of Forge/Fabric. Sodium can outperform OptiFine by a large scale, but only if your system can run vanilla without any issues already and has less mod conflicts than OptiFine. Best. also,. 20. В общей массе существует такое мнение, что содиум это такая волшебная штучка в оптимизации. 16 using sodium/lithium/phosphor, they are significantly better than Optifine in my experience. There are replacement mods for all of OptiFine's features though. But now it gets weird. 9. Peanut_Butter002. 3 yr. Sodium. But all are in early testing and likely have still many bugs. - Looking at North Max: 300 fps. Optifine gives many visual advantages that only one man has secretly been able to recreate with sodium ( the man’s Bdubs ) OptiFine's mindshare is enormous. 1 to latest. R5 3600, RTX 3060, and 16gb ram. 11. was just updated from one version to the other. However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet. 17. 5 and I used Optifine with Forge and Jellysquid's Phosphor, Lithium, and Sodium together with Fabric. 17. Slide MaxFrames all the way to the right to "Unlimited". Lithium improves game physics, mob AI, and block ticking, while Phosphor is the one that improves the lighting engine. 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. Sodium has a bigger fps boost but doesn’t work with forge and also it can have steep fps drops occasionally and animations. (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. Join. 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. You want to play mi. Windows - Regular: 41 fps. Natzival 3 yr. thats a great list! for the 1. ago. APowerBlackout. If you don't want to bother downloading every single one, check out the Fabulously Optimized modpack. Optifine is banned for 1. • 17 days ago. Sodium, Optifine, and Vanilla Minecraft FPS comparisons YouTube (edited by Supadude05) Minecraft: Java Edition Mod. 1. Aside from the API, do any of these client-side mods need to be copied to the Fabric 1. Sodium or optifine? Attlaan Aug 30, 2021 Not open for further replies because of inactivity. 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. I wanted to use sodium for a long time but I knew that I can't see my optifine cape if I used sodium (I know a dumb reason). 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. 2 update for the Neoforge Mod loader will include code changes that will require mods to be built against it, not Forge. 3. Optifine for a small fps boost, shaders and ungodly amounts of settings. OF when the settings of Sodium are set to actually match default OF. *some* people did get less fps compared to optifine. how i saw a video comparing them optifine is better for low end systems which have a very bad or a intergrated gpu and sodium is better for others. Go to Minecraft. long answer: still no. 2. It's the same as asking Sodium devs to add OptiFine compatibility. Run this once to create the Mods folder, which will be in your . ago. However, OptiFine in 1. JackFred2. On optifine I get 70-700 max. 17. Its why the dilemma exists, because they both have advantages and disadvantages, for big. apparently OSX stops supporting openGL at 4. The only advantage optifine has is that it's one mod while the others are not but it doesn't take long to add mods. As you know, Optifine 1. 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. Reduce simulation distance, you dont need it that high. Iris vs Optifine. 1. ALSO, SODIUM IS A FUCKING HORRIBLE MOD. So at this moment, it's only a matter of time for both Optifine and Iris to have their. . It is what I use, and a beta for 1. On top of that, most of Phosphor's development has been just updating to newer versions, not really improving or changing stuff (As opposed to Starlight, which has. • 3 yr. Comment Both mods are the best for graphical enhancement for Minecraft 1. Sodium using the power of gpu isn't something special. 45. 19. 19. With a combo of Sodium (and Iris if using shaders) + Lithium + Starlight, I get more fps than OptiFine. So I'm guessing that lithium wouldn't be very effective on a server compared to the other two. KinOfWinterfell • 1 yr. On top of that, VulkanMod is a complete rewrite of the renderer. When it comes to graphical and performance enhancements, these two mods are at the very top and are used by millions of. 6 comments. 16. View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. 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. gordonche. I'm using an amd card and an amd CPU as well, and so far I've gotten much better performance with Magnesium. ) SomeRandomPetey • 2 yr. LOL. Optifine boosts FPS (Image via Kenzo on YouTube) One of the best features of Optifine is the performance boost. Sodium - Minecraft 1. 3 yr. Starlight is compatible with Optifine so you can use both. X, so basically, no matter what version. SomeRandomPetey 2 yr. With Phosphor, the amount of time the game takes to generate chunks can be halved for some. 1. • 8 mo. Best. CurseForge is a plattform for mods for different games, including Minecraft. What mod loader will you continue to use in 1. Shaders have become a need for me because regular minecraft without shaders look. Iris on the other hand will have to integrate the features from optifine into their system. As others have mentioned you can get the same effects from other, far better mods now like Iris, FoamFix, Rubidium, Sodium, Phosphor, VanillaFix, and a host of others. While OptiFine has extra features like better grass and connected textures, Sodium has better performance overall without the extra additions. An FPS boost of any amount. "OptIfInE bAd!!1!" Well Halogen worse. Fabric loads your mods, akin to Forge. optifine is kinda terrible on versions after 1. Thank you! While some of the mods do work on a server, this is focused on the client. 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. 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. ago. Some of the major issues of OptiFine include: It is monolithic. It's been around for well over a decade and as such most people know what it is and what it does. so, yeah, Optifine doesn't seem to be too well optimized right nowSodium #. To give an example. 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 definitely if you use Vanilla or Fabric. 20. . Note that all might not happen when you install it, but at any time while playing. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. Overview. 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. Hey. You can add it as an improvement to the in-game framerate at the cost of a much longer startup time. We have compiled a list of the seven best optimization mods for Minecraft 1. ago. Though the difference in framerates may vary depending on the user's system, Sodium is likely to provide higher framerates in most cases. In this video we take a look at OptiFine vs Iris Shaders (Iris & Sodium) and perform a Iris & Sodium VS OptiFine FPS test with Shaders on Minecraft Java edit. ReyManagan. soop4eck 1 yr. Ik there are like camels n' shit tho. Optifine is for features. level 1. • 2 yr. Sodium is a free and open-source rendering optimization mod for Minecraft 1. 20 with Optifine version HD U I5 pre7 and Sodium version 0. Well Halogen worse. 2 when i… Advertisement CoinsIs there anyway to use Optifine connected textures with Magnesium/Rubidium ? Hello, I'm using rubidium because I wanted the performance improvements of sodium and love a few Forge mods (so couldn't use Fabric). It works on both the client and server, and can be installed on servers without requiring clients to also have the mod. why are you talking about other mods that we do not care about this is literally hypixel. Iris on the other hand will have to integrate the features from optifine into their system. Sodium + Iris + BSL is a great combo. Vanilla (no mods) is a bit stuttery, still gets pretty good FPS, around the 200 to 300 FPS range. - Looking at the sky Max: 1076 fps. im trying to make my game not crash by using performance mods and I'm not sure if these mods combined might break my computer, I used sodium with phosphor and lithium at the same time and my game crashed and I checked the logs, as soon as sodium started up it gave errors in the logs so sodium is the likely cause of my PC almost breaking even with. s. 40 Chunks Optifine ~140fps. For me, sodium + iris gives the best results. Optifine is the "easiest" way, but it's a client only optimisation which is not really compatibility friendly. Half the time ONLY Optifine works, the other half ONLY MiniHUD works. ago. 2 . Plus I forgot only very few uses development versions of both. (My PC: Ryzen 7 3800X, RTX 2080 Super, 8GB of ram were allocated to Minecraft at the time of testing) Look into Sodium. Smooth 60 fps at 32 render distance, Fancy graphics, Lamb's dynamic lights, etc. My sister is playing in an older laptop and the game was barely working (around 5 FPS top). All mods I made are incompatible with Optifine because I don’t know how the. 18 survival. 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. However, my gfs pc runs wayyyy better with sodium+ than optifine. Sodium is not over hyped at ALL. 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. Average FPS Results - Rounded up to the nearest whole number. ago. Managed to add foods to the origins:meat tag using kubejs, here's a file to fix a lot of stuff with origins (and also some other stuff) make sure to put it in the kubejs/server_scripts folder as a . toml. Lithium (further optimization, also by Sodium devs) . 15. 5 version. I use complimentary shaders on medium (custom), run about 36 client side mods including their APIs and my rig aint half bad either. OptiFine was one of the best mods, if not the best mod, in Minecraft versions 1. Y también hubo una ocasión en la que Mojang intentó comprar una porción de OptiFine que mejora el rendimineto del juego para implementarlo en vanilla y reducir el lag, pero los de OptiFine no aceptaron porque querían que Mojang o no compre nada o compre todo el mod, y en OptiFine hay cosas que van contra la esencia vanilla del juego. Optifabric broke with recent fabric api (4 full versions ago) on any version and that still hasn't been addressed. As optifine is not compatible with sodium or lithium, don't expect it ever to the supported with lunar client, unless they swap optifine with sodium. They are probably also incompatible with other mods that change rendering. 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. *Less lag with tnt than all. ago. Shader FPS comparison. Increible_Subnormal. • 9 mo. - Looking at the sky Max: 1076 fps. Fabric and forge are Minecraft instances that will run mods and stuff like that, for more frames just use optifine or lunar. 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. Sodium is just fps and lack all other optifine feutures (dynamic lights, shaders, zoom, etc. Optifine has a very "convenient" bug since the 1. 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. Anything modded and it. And for the best optimization, don’t use Optifine, use Sodium and Iris. CurseForge is a plattform for mods for different games, including Minecraft. Also it took optifine like 2 months to get 1. 2 optifine released and im just wondering when it would release on TL and forgeoptifine too, i know it usually takes some time but is there an average time when it would be released? dont use optifine, sodium and jellyfish's mods are better in every way possible (if u want my configs/modlist dm me)Forge is for mods Then use optifine and that's it. Minecraft installations are not hard at all. As others have mentioned you can get the same effects from other, far better mods now like Iris, FoamFix, Rubidium, Sodium, Phosphor, VanillaFix, and a host of others. Both Sodium and OptiFine are both massive mods that aim to improve Minecraft by increasing your game's performance Since Sodium launched in 2020, most peopl. I am using iris with Sodium but most mods and texture packs require optifine for the custom textures. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. There is also Zink, which translates OpenGL to Vulkan without changing the game. I'm getting java for Christmas and I'm wondering which one to get I've seen videos of optifine and there is alot of settings to thru but I also heard sodium is better for fps which one should I use. 91K subscribers. 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. . Showcase. MikemkPK. I'm not trying to start a "which is better" debate. Note to why it works even with Sodium/Optifine. 16. Is there a mod that has zoom, connected textures, and dynamic lighting features all in one that I can use with iris + sodium (fabric mods) or will I have to get 3 different mods for those 3 features?Actronix •. 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. 19 support, while sodium already had 1. - Looking at North Max: 300 fps. js file. 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. Hasn't got me killed yet though. OptiFine is closed-source, that in itself makes it difficult. 3 like the others, joys of using old installs :) 16 Chunks Sodium ~219fps. New Minecraft Magnesium mod ports Sodium mod to Forge! Now you can use sodium without installing fabric for your minecraft 1. 19. also vulkan support could allow real raytacing which is not possible due to the opengl that java has. 0 Fabric Ver 0. Optifine and Lithium will most likely be getting updates or new versions that work with 1. My own experience : Vanilla : 100FPS, Optifine : 140FPS, these mods : 500FPS, 90 with. Just plain Optifine, no mod loader. 3. ago. If you are using a shaderpack and the sky starts flickering, I recommend setting PlanetSkyOverride to false inside config/advancedRocketry. Curseforge: an online repository for mods and modpacks. "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). 0. ago. My specs. Thanks in advance!!Sodium replaces the Minecraft renderer and dramatically improves frame-rate, reduces micro-stutter, and fixes graphical issues. If you don't need that customization, shaders and enhanced resourcepacks, Sodium will be a good choice. Sodium is the Mod that has. But there are. 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. 3 and then install Fabric Loader. 4. ago. ) SomeRandomPetey • 2 yr. SomeRandomPetey 2 yr. FreeSync Premium - This does reduce FPS but offers adaptive synchronization to eliminate visual tearing and more. 32 Chunks Sodium ~69fps. 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). 14. Solid 100 ish fps (1440p, 32 render distance, on Linux with. 16 does not meet its former glory. 5. 13+ in Vanilla Minecraft, i don't mess with Optifine that much in newer Versions. . 1. Rubidium + a bunch of other render optimization mods that are not compatible with Optifine gives me 60 fps. In this video we take a look at OptiFine vs Iris Shaders (Iris & Sodium) and perform a test with Shaders on Minecraft Java edition 1. Forge OptiFine alternatives. I generally wouldn't recommend using optifine as it leads to a lot of compatability issues. Shaders have become a need for me because regular minecraft without shaders look. Download the iris and sodium installer and choose the download as fabric mods option. Final Thoughts The choice between Optifine and Sodium depends on the player’s needs. Sodium is the best client-side optimisation mod available at the moment, and we highly recommend installing it when possible. lowered it and that helped a bit to get like 75-90 FPS with stutters, but I'm coming back to the game after a while and wanted to try complementary shaders. 1 yr. I really recomend play with Rubidium + Oculus or Optifine. It looks like you are using mods, you should probably remove Optifine and replace it with Rubidium or Sodium (depends on what Mod Loader you use), alternatively Nvidia Drivers could be the problem.