so, yeah, Optifine doesn't seem to be too well optimized right nowSodium #. Optifine felt just as stuttery and it had way lower FPS, a little weird that it performed worse than Vanilla. However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet. In theory, OptiFine should work better due to having more optimizations. also, better performance isnt the only advantage of the mods, another advantage is them being separate. . I know sodium for sure, but not sure about lithium and phosphor. Just make sure you download the forge version. 3. Vanilla: 10-20 fps Sodium (+ Logical Zoom + Mod Menu + FAPI): 20-30 fps Sodium + Lithium + Hydrogen + Starlight + Krypton (+ Logical Zoom + Mod Menu + FAPI): 20-40 fps Optifine: 50-60 fpsView community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. edit: Looks like they addressed the fabric api issue 2. 17. We see FPS comparis. OptiFabric OptiFine VS Sodium & Iris Shaders 1. However optifine still had the advantage with shader support but here's where the new mod comes into play. Curseforge: an online repository for mods and modpacks. 1. Improves game crashes Sodium Extra. Its why the dilemma exists, because they both have advantages and disadvantages, for big. Skip ahead to 1. it gives a much larger frame boost. You want to play mi. 1 yr. • 9 mo. Sodium: to ask questions? Join the JellySquid discord! info about this I u. 6. Iris builds off of sodium and adds shader support directly to the mod allowing Sodium to technically now have shader support. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. Minecraft installations are not hard at all. Sodium reduced pretty much all the stuttering and it had the highest FPS, bravo sodium. 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. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. Thank you! While some of the mods do work on a server, this is focused on the client. a comparison between Vanilla, Optifine, and Sodium. However, my gfs pc runs wayyyy better with sodium+ than optifine. 16. Sodium extra is something I’ve found that gives me all the optifine features without the shaders component and it runs very. However, I still recommend using Fabulously Optimized as that has sodium, iris. Tried with default 2gb ram allocated, 4gb, and 6gb, no differences. I personally just play 1. Finally, you could free up some resources and get better performance by switching to OpenJ9 for. Hbop_5009. Performance. 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). If you want (almost) full OptiFine feature parity, use Fabulously. Pineapplepansy. On optifine I get 70-700 max. Sodium and Iris are made for Fabric, not Forge. 0. ago. You don’t have precise control over what features you do and don’t get. Increible_Subnormal. #5. I generally wouldn't recommend using optifine as it leads to a lot of compatability issues. 17. 2. Be the first! Explore properties. If you don't want to bother downloading every single one, check out the Fabulously Optimized modpack. minecraft folder by default (unless you specify a dedicated GameDirectory in your profile to keep your mods. It offers some performance benefits, shaders, dynamic lights, zoom, and about a million other things in one neat package. X, 1. If Optifine offered dependable and impressive performance improvements, and the developer worked well with others, sure. PiBombbb • 1 yr. 2keanon7. You could try Rubidium. Hey. r/Minecraft. ago. *Less lag with tnt than all. In my experience Sodium+ mods are very hardware dependent. 270. 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. 1) It provides an FPS boost. ago. 5. 5, and suddenly there are mods that do the same job, but better. Otherwise, if you don't want something like Shaders, you can go for a combo of Iris+Indium+Sodium+Lithium+Hydrogen+Phosphor. ago. You're right, though. 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. 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. The amount of fps that Sodium gets over Optifine depends on how old the system is. They are probably also incompatible with other mods that change rendering. 16 and better performance enhancing mod on the rise like Sodium, I wanna ask if you know any substitute mods for these following Optifine features: Overlay textures for some blocks (cobblestone, sand, gravel, grass block, etc) the main thing i think fabric's. I'm not sure if it works with 1. 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. On the other hand, with a rendering of only 8 chunks, using Optifine seems to slightly reduce the fluidity of the game. ago. Sodium can. 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. 2, you will probably want to be looking into versions for those. 5 and I used Optifine with Forge and Jellysquid's Phosphor, Lithium, and Sodium together with Fabric. However, OptiFine since 1. FPS Drop from 60-80 (Optifine) to 40-50 (Sodium), tends to fluctuate between 30 and 60. Lunar C. Hey, I was lookint for boosting performance on my single world custom modpack, I'm aware that Sodium does give better performance boost than OptiFine, but since most of My mods don't have Fabric ports, I was looking for a similar mod that performs better than OptiFine. Optifine for looks, sodium for fps, I use sodium + lithium + phosphor and it performs better and loads much better. Ik there are like camels n' shit tho. It works on both the client and server, and can be installed on servers without requiring clients to also have the mod. ago. I have Sodium, FerriteCore, C2ME, LambDynamicLights, Starlight, and Sodium Extra. 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. • 2 yr. View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. What I do recommend is BetterFps, which is also compatible with OptiFine. Otherwise, if you don't want something like Shaders, you can go for a combo of Iris+Indium+Sodium+Lithium+Hydrogen+Phosphor. look, the 3 mods have performed way better than optifine on the *majority* of pcs. My pc specs: i5 9400f 2x8 RAM GTX 1660 SSD AzureAquatic • MultiMC • 1 yr. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. 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. OptiFine and Sodium are two of the best graphic mods for Minecraft 1. They're technically two mods. Forge OptiFine alternatives. 1. The /r/feedthebeast subreddit is not affiliated or. Assume that if it comes out it will be after 1. The only advantage optifine has is that it's one mod while the others are not but it doesn't take. 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). sodium and magnesium are effectively the same for different platforms. Update your graphics card drivers. 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. 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. A Minecraft server I play in recently updated to 1. Install fabric, download fabric API, download sodium, put both in "mods" folder and start Minecraft "fabric" installation from the launcher. 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. Posted by u/250r_go_brrrrrr - 1 vote and 3 commentsHowever, "is it out" is always 100% self-answerable via the website. The only allowed mods are sodium, lithium and phosphor (and that. Sodium using the power of gpu isn't something special. OptiFine does more things. I use complimentary shaders on medium (custom), run about 36 client side mods including their APIs and my rig aint half bad either. chiller105 • 3 yr. Fowlish. But sodium is, in some scenes, more than 5 times as fast. 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 •. Maybe there just won’t be a release for 1. STOP USING OPTIFINE GODDAMIT ! Tips. 16+ runs because it messes with the game's behavior. Actronix. Phosphor for Fabric. I'm not trying to start a "which is better" debate. 6 work with 1. With optifine and the same shaders it never goes over 60% like it's being throttled. Sodium for optimization of chunk loading and light multithreading, which will boost your fps by ungodly amounts. Ahhh i see. however, on lunar, I get 60-200 max. An example of this is the create mod: when shaders are used with oculus the contraption. ago. Yeah, I know I'm using the Beta version, but still. I mainly play on a server, if that matters. • 4 mo. Sodium usually give better frame times than Optifine no matter the system. SomeRandomPetey 2 yr. this reminds me of the good ol days waiting for 1. chiller105 • 3 yr. Sodium improves the performance of Minecraft, reaching completely absurd limits. Let me be very clear about my criticism here: Sodium is a fantastic performance mod and the changes of excluding all features save performance is, in part,. Give them time, for me the new update just doesn't come out until my mods get updated lmao. Chunk rendering is also super smooth, probably thanks to that Chunk Renderer Multidraw option. ago. It is monolithic. Windows - Regular: 41 fps. 8. : r/feedthememes. ShaksterNano 2 yr. 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. Phosphor is more popular because it's written by the same author as Lithium and Sodium, but Starlight is better. . Its been a while since 1. CurseForge is a plattform for mods for different games, including Minecraft. I know, but of course as its a port many bugs are bound to happen, the only thing you could do is report the issue or try tweaking the resourcepack to fit CEM's code yourself (if you know how to)Probably use sodium mod ibstead of optifine, use full screen, also turn your entity distance down to like 100%. Optifine for stability and shaders, Sodium + Lithium + Starlight (maybe even iris) for more fps than optifine. ago. It’s tempting to use one catch-all mod instead of Sodium, Iris, Indium, Connected Textures, and WI Zoom. 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. toml. It is what I use, and a beta for 1. Zealousideal_Zone_69 • 1 yr. thats a great list! for the 1. My main concern is fps rather than visual fidelity, though I hope to be able to turn my render distance up higher with sodium. I generally wouldn't recommend using optifine as it leads to a lot of compatability issues. 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). 17? 1. 18. 7. p. most modpacks keep lithium and phosphor, but not sodium, since sodium can have incompatibilities. Optifine vs Sodium: An Objective Comparison First, I only use Optifine, or rather only until recently, on MULTIPLAYER, where client side optimization doesn't pose a threat to the current world. 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. They're technically two mods. Personally, I've been using the Fabulously Optimized modpack, which includes some of the best performance boosting mods (Sodium, Starlight, Lithium, etc. What are the mods I could use with Sodium to have basically all functionality of Optifine? For example: Iris, Entity Model. This was an issue with Optifine in early builds (around 2011-12) but after a decade this seems more stable. 2. Nightcaste. 14. Peanut_Butter002. 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. Optifine can help make your game run faster. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a CommentFrom what I've heard iris/sodium is better than optifine, and I've tried it, and while it's not the best, it seems to be better than optifine in 1. It offers great compatibility with the Fabric mods ecosystem and does not compromise on the look of the game. With optifine 1. Minecraft's bundled Java does NOT count. Sodium definitely if you use Vanilla or Fabric. As people have mentioned, Iris for shaders, okzoomer is also great for optifine zoom features. ago. It's the same as asking Sodium devs to add OptiFine compatibility. Yea I tried to replace optifine but there is no mod for connected textures and the. 1. 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 yr. So sodium is a performance mod that you run through fabric loader, while Optifine is kinda like a stand alone mod pack of sorts. pages. ago. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. fabric mod loader/ for sodium lithium and phosphorlithium downloaddownloaddescription of what's wrong. Optifine is the "easiest" way, but it's a client only optimisation which is not really compatibility friendly. OptiFine and Iris. This is what I would recommend until the next version of Sodium is released (no ETA). for create optifine because sodium is fabric and create is forge they wont work together. 15. Optifine is great, I agree. 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 . 6. X, 1. 20, including OptiFine, Sodium, Vulkan, and many more. ago. 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. Then boot up the game, exit the game, and download the mods from the internet and put them into the Minecraft mods folder. I basically made optifine without optifine. I’ve seen so many posts with bugs and shader performance, we need to face it optifine isn’t what it used to be. For FPS, magnesium would probably be the best. if you see IRIS+Fabric, run that profile. I'm not sure if each mod has updated to 1. That's why. 3 like the others, joys of using old installs :) 16 Chunks Sodium ~219fps. also vulkan support could allow real raytacing which is not possible due to the opengl that java has. Which should i use for better fps in enigmatica 6? Magnesium, Sulfuric, Helium and RoadRunner are the complete. Oh man, so I'm actually already playing on a multilayer server hosted on my home server. Indium. ago. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. Windows - Iris (Sodium) - No Debug overlay: 593 fps. Also it took optifine like 2 months to get 1. Sodium Vs. TL;DR: If you only want performance, use Simply Optimized. You can have both phosphor and lithium. Sodium Ver 0. how the heck am I supposed to have both shaders and mods at the same time ? Archived post. I'd say that's probably the main reason it's still so popular. 19. KinOfWinterfell • 1 yr. jar file inside the mods folder (if its not there make it). It also looks much worse. Before I realised sodium is so awesome, optifine + shaders had been a novelty and never really playable always landing in the 20-30 fps area. If you use either rubidium or magnesium, make sure that you use Magnesium/Rubidium Extras as it has an additional performance fix. What mod loader will you continue to use in 1. 8). 9. (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. 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. 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 is doesnt increase fps by alot but still really good. So, considering these factors and other gameplay features. Out of mods side. Almost seemed like there was more stuttering too. If you are using a shaderpack and the sky starts flickering, I recommend setting PlanetSkyOverride to false inside config/advancedRocketry. 6. be. Tweakeroo and Optifine not working together. "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. Best. I'll tell everyone i found the secret between this state and mojang! Better idea: Use Ok Zoomer, 30 FOV, and this. 19 not quite released yet I decided to try iris with fabric because I missed my shaders. The Forge ports are alright, but Forge itself is a bit heavy. No replies yet. I use complimentary shaders on medium (custom), run about 36 client side mods including their APIs and my rig aint half bad either. I have this plus the other Forge ports from. x). 16. That's why people recommend using Forge ports of Sodium, Iris, Lithium, Starlight, etc. The difference is that Sodium does a really quick pass based on the visible chunks, being way less aggressive and thereby still rendering. I tried Sodium last week and am very impressed, and I tried Canvas as well but as far as I can tell there. As someone that migrated from optifine to sodium, you can 100% recreate the experience better and smoother with a few mods. Optifine vs Sodium FPS Stress Test. CurseForge is a plattform for mods for different games, including Minecraft. Minecraft Java ~60fps + Anti-aliasing. 1, WOW, what a difference. ago. 2 update for the Neoforge Mod loader will include code changes that will require mods to be built against it, not Forge. Downvote this comment if this post is poor quality or does not fit the purpose of r/Minecraft. Mods like Sodium, Lithium, Starlight improve the fps, reduce stuttering, improve world loading times, make chunk loading faster and so on. Fabric and forge are Minecraft instances that will run mods and stuff like that, for more frames just use optifine or lunar. An example of this is the create mod: when shaders are used with oculus the contraption. I really recomend play with Rubidium + Oculus or Optifine. When it comes to graphical and performance enhancements, these two mods are at the very top and are used by millions of. Sodium is really good for the latest versions of minecraft if you have more recent low-mid specs. 12 as far as rendering goes. 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. Optifine : r/technicalminecraft. Takedown request View complete answer on sportskeeda. 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. Anything modded and it. This will save you a LOT of hassle! Download and install Java, if it is not already installed on your system. 2. Phosphor exists for Fabric and Forge, but the forge version isn't updated. Go to Minecraft. With these two mods, you can also install Canvas. With a combo of Sodium (and Iris if using shaders) + Lithium + Starlight, I get more fps than OptiFine. 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. · 11 mo. 20. 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. Still I get around 20-50fps, which isn't bad but it's not even stable and constantly jumps frames. Reaction score. ago. I am using iris with Sodium but most mods and texture packs require optifine for the custom textures. I really recomend play with Rubidium + Oculus or Optifine. Final Thoughts The choice between Optifine and Sodium depends on the player’s needs. ago. 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. 18. 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. OptiFine is closed-source, that in itself makes it difficult. Natzival 3 yr. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. Once again as we head towards an FPS benchmark, Sodium proves to be slightly better than Optifine in Minecraft 1. Aside from the API, do any of these client-side mods need to be copied to the Fabric 1. レンダリング最適化MOD Sodiumを超おすすめする記事｜FPSブースト. Hi, I decided I would move from Optifine to sodium. Optifabric broke with recent fabric api (4 full versions ago) on any version and that still hasn't been addressed. Sodium is for frames. 16. 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. for shaders, you can use iris (although it is still in very early development and you'll have to compile it yourself). toml. But Sodium has came out and it is far superior to OptiFine in many ways. If you don't need that customization, shaders and enhanced resourcepacks, Sodium will be a good choice. x and so on) and has more mods for certain versions like 1. It's surprisingly stable despite being "Experimental". Try Sodium + Iris waiting for the release OF 1. *some* people did get less fps compared to optifine. This is my first attempt at building a "Proper" Castle. curseforge. OptiFine is known for great performance. Im just sharing my finds so you can hopefully find this post and enjoy night vision without Optifine on Fabrick. 1. 19. 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. ago. Optifine is easier to install, have built-in support for shaders, zoom key, connected textures and other stuff. Its the other way around for me, fabric with Sodium+Hydrogen+Phosphor+Lithium makes the game way better than optifine. X, and 1. 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. 1.