If you haven't heard already, my third optimization mod, Sodium, is now officially released. But all are in early testing and likely have still many bugs. However, I cannot find this kind of texture pack that allows me to do this while using sodium. I have looked at Animatica but that only allowed for animated textures. With optifine and the same shaders it never goes over 60% like it's being throttled. For me, Sodium provides better performance than Optifine. OptiFabric + OptiFine OptiFine isn't compatible with Sodium, you should remove it. Its been a while since 1. teamchar1ie • 4 mo. Nightcaste. I average 60 fps, so yeah, very playable. And at the time Iris and Sodium didn't exist it was the best performance mod out there, so most of the community knows it. And is upgraded early after the new version is released. 7. 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. ) and supports the same features as OptiFine. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. ago. chiller105 • 3 yr. 5. I think there was a mod for the zoom, I forgot the name but if you search it you'll probably find it ( btw it gets updated I think) AP_Gaming_9 • 1 yr. As Optifabric support ends in 1. It's the combination of Iris (Performance and shaders), Sodium (Performance), Culling mods (Culling Leaves / Culling Particles, although for those I will need to test on my lower end laptop since with older versions it didn't really work due to stuttering issues when quickly looking behind) and Starlight. 19 support way before optifine. But sodium is, in some scenes, more than 5 times as fast. Hoffmanm106 • 2 yr. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. • 9 mo. sodium and magnesium are effectively the same for different platforms. For me, Sodium gives me slightly better performance than Optifine with and without shaders. The 1. . ago. Anything modded and it. 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. for create optifine because sodium is fabric and create is forge they wont work together. 16. There is canvas renderer, In my case i got much more fps than with sodium, but it (logically) isn't compatible with sodium. OptiFine isn't the only way to use shaders. and Iris and sodium are mods. Maybe there just won’t be a release for 1. However it's just as likely to cause more problems than it solves for meager performance gains, which is why people don't recommend it. 3 for 1. Lithium. why are you talking about other mods that we do not care about this is literally hypixel. melon? ), loadtimes have been cut in half, I can increase render distance quite a bit, it's a great upgrade. 2. This is what I would recommend until the next version of Sodium is released (no ETA). #1 What do you think is better Feel free to rage in the comments about it 1 curry- Forum NerdVanilla vs Optifine vs Sodium CGDoctor8 76 subscribers Subscribe 2. Iris is better for shaders, but if you want other fancy stuff like FreshAnimations then OptiFine is the way to go. I am looking for alternatives for optifines custom texture support. Iris builds off of sodium and adds shader support directly to the mod allowing Sodium to technically now have shader support. ago. 2 more replies. with Sodium, it stays around 200, and with Sildur's shaders I get 120 fps. 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. I already have a bunch of OptiFine alternatives. Linux - Iris (Sodium): 487 fps. *some* people did get less fps compared to optifine. 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. Continue this thread. 20 released. And for the bost well use the last version of create with flywell. But Sodium has came out and it is far superior to OptiFine in many ways. This connected block textures mod (download build artifacts from the actions tab, you need a github account to download) LambdaBetterGrass. 12 and FoamFix is only up to 1. 8. 12 as far as rendering goes. 17 does not meet its former glory. I currently use optifine but am considering switching to sodium. com. 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). If Optifine offered dependable and impressive performance improvements, and the developer worked well with others, sure. thats a great list! for the 1. Also it took optifine like 2 months to get 1. ago. To give an example. APowerBlackout. It's been around for well over a decade and as such most people know what it is and what it does. Optifine/Sodium+Iris alternatives for Forge 1. Your best bet is to simply create two profiles and test them both. OptiFine is known for great performance. Oh man, so I'm actually already playing on a multilayer server hosted on my home server. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. 20. OptiFine is nothing compared to a modpack like Fabulously Optimized, which has most of OptiFine's features (including shaders) except with 2 - 3x better performance. *Less lag with tnt than all. Optifine does not increase performance out of the box and is closed source, it is widely accepted truth. Aside from the API, do any of these client-side mods need to be copied to the Fabric 1. Mods must not refer to a cheat client. 19. 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). Fabulously Optimized modpack provides all the functionality of optifine, but with much better performance and full fabric support. Mods like Optifine and Lithium are merely band aids to a far more developed problem. Pineapplepansy. The best version of Iris is currently the 1. I know sodium for sure, but not sure about lithium and phosphor. 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. 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 is the original for Fabric, Magnesium is a third party port to Forge. Forge and Fabric are modloaders, you nees them for most mods nowdays. However, I cannot find this kind of texture pack that allows me to do this while using sodium. Sodium is far better anyway. 2 Fabric VS Forge FPS comparison for vs OptiFine and OptiFabric vs Sodium and Iris Shaders 1. a comparison between Vanilla, Optifine, and Sodium. Pretty much the only good thing about Optifine is. 40 Chunks Optifine ~140fps. And, at least in my case Sodium/Magnesium helped performance much more. The downside is there are no shaders for it yet, at least that I can find. However, all of its functionalities (connected textures, overlays) are only compatible. In terms of performance, Sodium & co. Do. 16. 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. 4M. Below is the fix I found while browsing this sub. I hope it gets better. No replies yet. 19 support, while sodium already had 1. That's not going to be buttery smooth. No. It's surprisingly stable despite being "Experimental". Radplay • 1 yr. Can we please just accept that it is 2023 and it is normal for players to have a lot of XP levels in minecraft. Unfortunately, there was a recent, significant update to Optifine. [deleted] 3 yr. Optifine finally gets some worthy competition and the competitor is called Sodium. 5 and I used Optifine with Forge and Jellysquid's Phosphor, Lithium, and Sodium together with Fabric. Try adding in vanillafix and optifine (same with phosphor, foamfix, and betterfps but some packs include these already). However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet. 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. Showcase. I average 60 fps, so yeah, very playable. So I'm guessing that lithium wouldn't be very effective on a server compared to the other two. While OptiFine has extra features like better grass and connected textures, Sodium has better performance overall without the extra. [deleted] 3 yr. if you see IRIS+Fabric, run that profile. I use complimentary shaders on medium (custom), run about 36 client side mods including their APIs and my rig aint half bad either. Also sodium doubles the fps you get with optifineSodium vs lithium vs phosphor. 1, WOW, what a difference. For those who dont know what sodium is, sodium is a pretty good minecraft fps booster, however it lacks optifine features like shaders, zooming, etc and dont use both as they are incompatible. 19 Comparison - YouTube 0:00 / 3:24 • Intro OptiFine VS. 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. While exploring the new cherry groves biome in Minecraft version 1. Indium. 16. Optifine: - Have Shaders and Zoom option. Then boot up the game, exit the game, and download the mods from the internet and put them into the Minecraft mods folder. 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. Optifine or Magnesium? My friend and i have set up a small server including some forge mods, which tweak the game in small ways. 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. Iris is spefifically designed to improve your frames while running shaders. 16. Once again as we head towards an FPS benchmark, Sodium proves to be slightly better than Optifine in Minecraft 1. I'm just wondering why optifine isn't using my. however, on lunar, I get 60-200 max. 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. 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. OF features - Animatica, Colormatic, Continuity, Indium (Required. 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. ago. Optifine. 14. Normally I use: Sodium (optimized OpenGL renderer mod, what people use instead of Optifine these days) . 2. ago. I also tried some with Sodium through Fabric which apparently was v1. 18. 19 not quite released yet I decided to try iris with fabric because I missed my shaders. On top of that, VulkanMod is a complete rewrite of the renderer. Played a fair bit of MC, but not so much with mods. Also, to answer KilleDragon, Optifine alters 1. OptiFine does not improve FPS as much as Sodium but does add features like zooming, dynamic lights, resource pack additions, and so on, some of which can be replaced with other mods, with the notable exception of shaders. Added Lithium and Phosphor to the benchmark. It's the same as asking Sodium devs to add OptiFine compatibility. 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. Its why the dilemma exists, because they both have advantages and disadvantages, for big. 18. qShad_ said: *cough* *cough* Optifine also removing game code making mods such as twilight forest unstable and even crash the game. Sodium with its daughter mods such as phosphor & lithium gave me 170 - 260 FPS and 320FPS while staring at the ground Optifine gave me the same as default minecraft somehow Nothing was changed so everything was default with a fresh minecraft install with no other mods , the ram at default value which is 1gigs. r/Minecraft. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. Iris on the other hand will have to integrate the features from optifine into their system. Tried with default 2gb ram allocated, 4gb, and 6gb, no differences. 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. However, OptiFine in 1. OptiFine and Iris. AzureAquatic • MultiMC • 1 yr. Umm. 2. 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. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. 9. Or if you want more performance and parity with optifine, use the fabric mod loader and download Fabulously Optimized. I tested Optifine in 1. I can run Optifine and optifabric by themselves fine, and I can run Tweakeroo and malilib by themselves fine, but whenever I combine the two there always seems to be a problem. js file. Sodium is better only in perfomance, but Optifine adds more customizations for. The Forge ports are alright, but Forge itself is a bit heavy. Forge: A programming interface. 11. It works on both the client and server, and can be installed on servers without requiring clients to also have the mod. To add to that, OptiFine's mod compatibility is pretty bad. • •. look, the 3 mods have performed way better than optifine on the *majority* of pcs. ago. Sir_James_Ender • 1 yr. Yea I tried to replace optifine but there is no mod for connected textures and the. be. 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. Sodium improves rendering, phosphor improves the lighting engine, lithium improves general things like mob AI. Optifine: - Have Shaders and Zoom option. 2 forge, so I can't use it for shaders. 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. Optifine is easier to install, have built-in support for shaders, zoom key, connected textures and other stuff. 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. Place both that and Optifine in your mod. Optifine As far my testing went, Optifine seems to be compatible with the mods in this pack. I use complimentary shaders on medium (custom), run about 36 client side mods including their APIs and my rig aint half bad either. A Minecraft server I play in recently updated to 1. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. 5 & 1. If you need/want other optifine features such as emissive textures, connected textures, capes and others there. The /r/feedthebeast subreddit is not affiliated or. not every update gets an optifine version and the difference between 1. Click it, and then, click the big green ‘Play' button. 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. • 17 days ago. For shaders, Oculus (for Forge) is the closest for providing support for shaders, that work with existing Optifine shader packs. as the other guy said earlier, it might be your hardware/shaders, because newer/high end --> iris+sodium more fps, and older/low end --> optifine more fps. Sodium improves rendering, phosphor improves the lighting engine, lithium improves general things like mob AI. It is monolithic. Depends what do you want optifine for I guess. Sodium reduced pretty much all the stuttering and it had the highest FPS, bravo sodium. 3 at 1080PIt's fabric-only though, which is great for snapshots but every mod I actually like to use is Forge, lol. Reduce simulation distance, you dont need it that high. If you want to use shaders, then you could try rubidium and oculus. • 2 yr. 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. 2. An example of this is the create mod: when shaders are used with oculus the contraption. 14. OptiFine by default looks better for less of a performance bump. 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. 6. lordlucario_ • 1 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). 2+. Sodium is just a rip-off with 1/8th of the actual features, yet it's "sleek" and "minimal", which makes it the "hit for hardcore gaming" or some shit. Starlight. Join. r/Minecraft •. 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. 4. optifine is kinda terrible on versions after 1. ago. ago. Fabric and forge are Minecraft instances that will run mods and stuff like that, for more frames just use optifine or lunar. Sodium is better in terms of performance but also use lithium and starlight. Radplay • 8 mo. With Phosphor, the amount of time the game takes to generate chunks can be halved for some. Smooth 60 fps at 32 render distance, Fancy graphics, Lamb's dynamic lights, etc. 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. 1. At the same time, Optifine starts causing compatibility problems much more frequently. Toastieez. that's better. It makes the optics fine, and yes. 1. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. Sodium + Iris are way better than OptiFine in terms of performance. websites-eob. sodium is increase fps by alot but is on the latest version. However, my gfs pc runs wayyyy better with sodium+ than optifine. I really could use it. 3. they improve your games FPS. 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. We'll be looking at how they both perform and decide which one is better. you can replace optifines other features with seperate mods (Logical zoom, iris (shaders), minecraftcapes, dynamic lights) ginkdaripper • 8 mo. Sodium. Starlight. 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. OptiFine and Sodium are both replacements to Minecraft's rendering engine. While Sodium (in an example scenario) reaches 32 fps, where Optifine only reaches 25 -very convincing 28% increase-, the ticks go just the other way. OP said in other comments that they havent been compatible since 1. ago. My main concern is fps rather than visual fidelity, though I hope to be able to turn my render distance up higher with sodium. Iris isn't and never will be compatible with OptiFine. First I tried fabric and sodium, I went from 50~ fps to 70~ but it dips a lot. Minecraft Java ~60fps + Anti-aliasing. On this machine they might be, because this machine can run vanilla at smooth frame rates. This plugin should be fully safe to use. "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). 2+. ago. Since both need to get updated independently for their advantage to be maintained, there is a case to be made that Optifine is the more. - Looking at North Max: 300 fps. If you are using a shaderpack and the sky starts flickering, I recommend setting PlanetSkyOverride to false inside config/advancedRocketry. Sodium is a new Fabric mod for Minecraft 1. I'd say that's probably the main reason it's still so popular. According to Sildur's Shader Pack site, they mention the pack uses GLSL Shaders mod as a base and directly specify GLSL is "now part of Optifine". Optifine is also more well-rounded with its added features like Connected Textures, Custom Entity Models, and a lot more customizability. Lunar Client has less FPS than Optifine. Processor 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1235U (12 MB cache, 10 cores, 12 threads, up to 4. 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. 2 is really not that much that most people will care. With a combo of Sodium (and Iris if using shaders) + Lithium + Starlight, I get more fps than OptiFine. . ALSO, SODIUM IS A FUCKING HORRIBLE MOD. 15. I'm using an amd card and an amd CPU as well, and so far I've gotten much better performance with Magnesium. If you don't need that customization, shaders and enhanced resourcepacks, Sodium will be a good choice. 16. That's why sodium is perfect for 2014 + hardware builds. In this video, we're comparing Sodium VS Optifine for Minecraft on the Lunar Client. 1. ShaksterNano 2 yr. I am using iris with Sodium but most mods and texture packs require optifine for the custom textures. ago. 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. If you've already provided this info, you can ignore this message. 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 faster Optifine still has some bug fixes and optimizations to do before releasing a full version for 1. Sodium is a free and open-source rendering optimization mod for Minecraft 1. AI Reducer is only for 1. It is not programmed with other mods in mind. 16. 20 released. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit Is it worth using OptiFine 1. 1. You also should consider switching to MultiMC if you haven't already as it is lighter than the twitch launcher and open source. Right, such as LogicalZoom and certain Resourcepacks that have integrated (and pretty basic) shaders. Yes, that's the official one and yes, it should be safe. But if Sodium manages 100 in the same scene on that machine, it's perfectly fine again. 3. and i personally won't recommend the fabric modloader as it's quite unsable. minecraft -> crash-reports. I tried Sodium last week and am very impressed, and I tried Canvas as well but as far as I can tell there. JackFred2. I really recomend play with Rubidium + Oculus or Optifine. 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. OptiFine is closed-source, that in itself makes it difficult. Now if only there was a merged mod. . When comparing sodium-fabric and optifine you can also consider the following projects: lithium-fabric - A Fabric mod designed to improve the general performance of Minecraft without breaking things. ago. Optifine for stability and shaders, Sodium + Lithium + Starlight (maybe even iris) for more fps than optifine. 45. While OptiFine has extra features like better grass and connected textures, Sodium has better performance overall without the extra additions. Bedrock on the other hand is written in C++. Sodium reduced pretty much all the stuttering and it had the highest FPS, bravo sodium. Sodium extra is something I’ve found that gives me all the optifine features without the shaders component and it runs very. That's why people recommend using Forge ports of Sodium, Iris, Lithium, Starlight, etc. 19 Comparison Lentern 3. - Looking at the sky Max: 1076 fps. Starlight is compatible with Optifine so you can use both. ago. New Minecraft Magnesium mod ports Sodium mod to Forge! Now you can use sodium without installing fabric for your minecraft 1. 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. and Iris and sodium are mods. You don't really need Vulkan for Minecraft. Sodium is free and open-source, i highly recommend it. Fabulously Optimized modpack provides all the functionality of optifine, but with much better performance and full fabric support. Minecraft Sandbox game Open world Action-adventure game Gaming. But nobody plays with 1000 FPS, and Optifine. ago. Btw: why don’t you just test the performance yourself? It’s not a simple one or the other answer. r/hammer. However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet.