This is what I would recommend until the next version of Sodium is released (no ETA). To get all good from the Fabric mod ecosystem you need more mods. ShaksterNano 2 yr. Skip ahead to 1. Downvote this comment if this post is poor quality or does not fit the purpose of r/Minecraft. Also sodium doubles the fps you get with optifineSodium vs lithium vs phosphor. If you use either rubidium or magnesium, make sure that you use Magnesium/Rubidium Extras as it has an additional performance fix. So i personally prefer the much higher performance with these mods over optifine. Iris and Sodium is pretty new. Iris is better for shaders, but if you want other fancy stuff like FreshAnimations then OptiFine is the way to go. However, with the recent release of 1. It offers great compatibility with the Fabric mods ecosystem and does not compromise on the look of the game. It's not out yet. 1. Fast vs Fancy was a whole 1 FPS difference. 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. ). fabric mod loader/ for sodium lithium and phosphorlithium download…Zealousideal_Zone_69 • 1 yr. · 11 mo. 2 ones ive had good luck with including most of them WITH optifine. was just updated from one version to the other. If you selected the use custom loader option when installing Iris, you add extra mods in the iris-reserved folder in . 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. It's the same as asking Sodium devs to add OptiFine compatibility. optifine is kinda terrible on versions after 1. 16. Posted by u/250r_go_brrrrrr - 1 vote and 3 commentsHowever, "is it out" is always 100% self-answerable via the website. But nobody plays with 1000 FPS, and Optifine. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. And no, I am not suggesting to implement X mod into the game. Optifine for stability and shaders, Sodium + Lithium + Starlight (maybe even iris) for more fps than optifine. Smooth 60 fps at 32 render distance, Fancy graphics, Lamb's dynamic lights, etc. 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. X, 1. 15. 12 as far as rendering goes. 16 does not meet its former glory. . • 7 mo. 1 yr. 19 Comparison Lentern 3. X, and 1. The only advantage optifine has is that it's one mod while the others are not but it doesn't take. 20. Sodium improves rendering, phosphor improves the lighting engine, lithium improves general things like mob AI. Optifine is banned for 1. Expected Behavior. I'm just wondering why optifine isn't using my. • 2 yr. However, in terms of features, it's not quite there yet. 1K Share 161K views 3 years ago Sodium: Want to. You don’t have precise control over what features you do and don’t get. An example of this is the create mod: when shaders are used with oculus the contraption. There is also a 1. 17. Once again as we head towards an FPS benchmark, Sodium proves to be slightly better than Optifine in Minecraft 1. Still I get around 20-50fps, which isn't bad but it's not even stable and constantly jumps frames. - Just walking around Med: 300 fps. Linux - Iris (Sodium): 487 fps. 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. Magnesium is a Forge port of Sodium. But now it gets weird. It's shader-based, you can get a nice bloom effect (go in the mod settings. 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. . To add to that, OptiFine's mod compatibility is pretty bad. Enter world; press f3, and check the FPS in the top right corner; AttachmentsSodium and optifine. Sodium + Lithium + Starlight + Iris have been always completely open source, allowing for more to contribute than 1 person, and issues and bugs to be caught and fixed faster. 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. This plugin should be fully safe to use. 16 using sodium/lithium/phosphor, they are significantly better than Optifine in my experience. 4M subscribers in the Minecraft community. 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. Optifine is a mod. Sodium usually give better frame times than Optifine no matter the system. But all are in early testing and likely have still many bugs. 2 vs Forge. Ginbriel • 2 yr. 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. Sodium and Iris are made for Fabric, not Forge. With Sodium you will get only improved FPS but for other stuff you need different mods. And for replacing optifine features: FabricCapes, OkZoomer, Continuity. What I am suggesting, however, is that, after releasing the adventure update, Mojang works on an entire update solely focused on reworking Minecraft's engine and completely reoptimize the game itself. 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. 6. 3 at 1080PIt's fabric-only though, which is great for snapshots but every mod I actually like to use is Forge, lol. ago. The only shader worth considering is Complementary. In many cases, Sodium alone can give much better fps than OptiFine. Also optifine has imrpvoed massively since 1. 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. The newer versions of optifine lack quality. OptiFine isn't the only way to use shaders. sodium optimize much more than optifine,but dont support shader,there's a fork named iris that support some of them,or canvas,that dont work with sodium,but offer some. 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. 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. 20. You want to play mi. for shaders, you can use iris (although it is still in very early development and you'll have to compile it yourself). You can get everything on fabric from emissive textures to. ago. The steam deck should have zero problems even with "only" OptiFine. As someone that migrated from optifine to sodium, you can 100% recreate the experience better and smoother with a few mods. Plus, I'd rather have Optifine. 4 unless im running into some other problem. If the player enjoys trying different mods, Optifine is a better choice. Note: i also use these mods when i play fabric: Fabric api, Lambdynamiclightning, Litematica, Lithium, Logical zoom, Malilib, Minihud, Modmenu, Nofog, Phosphor, Shulkerboxtooltip, Sodium. • 1 yr. Sodium extra is something I’ve found that gives me all the optifine features without the shaders component and it runs very. 19. Install 1. ago. 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. Fabulously Optimized modpack provides all the functionality of optifine, but with much better performance and full fabric support. Optifine felt just as stuttery and it had way lower FPS, a little weird that it performed worse than Vanilla. First I tried fabric and sodium, I went from 50~ fps to 70~ but it dips a lot. Im not the creator of this mod nor associated in any way with the creator. the difference vs the original list is that it encompasses more versions (e. APowerBlackout. Nope. With optifine 1. 19. Yeah, I know I'm using the Beta version, but still. Fabulously Optimized modpack provides all the functionality of optifine, but with much better performance and full fabric support. This connected block textures mod (download build artifacts from the actions tab, you need a github account to download) LambdaBetterGrass. In fact, Sodium also outperforms Optifine in pretty much all scenarios without any of the drawbacks. Sodium is for frames. It's been around for well over a decade and as such most people know what it is and what it does. I'm using an amd card and an amd CPU as well, and so far I've gotten much better performance with Magnesium. 19. Lithium vs Optifine. 12 as far as rendering goes. And is upgraded early after the new version is released. I'm not sure if it works with 1. . 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). If you have Optifine installed then it probably caused your problem. In theory, OptiFine should work better due to having more optimizations. ago. Though a lot of people are using sodium and other performance mods, because of better results. OptiFine VS. That said, you can get even better performance by using eg. Unzip it and the . It works on both the client and server, and can be installed on servers without requiring clients to also have the mod. Best. As an added note, OptiFine itself isn't even Fabric compatible without. I'm not trying to start a "which is better" debate. Lunar is a client, the other are mods. ago. Optifine can help make your game run faster. An example of this is the create mod: when shaders are used with oculus the contraption. 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,. R5 3600, RTX 3060, and 16gb ram. I am looking for a mod that does the same thing as custom textures from optifine. Yeah but iris includes a version of sodium modified to work with it, so if. 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. 17. Starlight reworks the lighting engine, Optifine tweaks the rendering engine and a lot more, including lighting and things. Sodium definitely if you use Vanilla or Fabric. 2? 27520a3f. 16+ which greatly improves frame rates and stuttering while fixing many graphical issues. 19 support way before optifine. thanks!Sodium looks pretty sick. OptiFine is closed-source, that in itself makes it difficult. I know why, optifine has built in compatibility with shaders, sodium doesnt. 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. 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. Optifine boosts FPS (Image via Kenzo on YouTube) One of the best features of Optifine is the performance boost. The added benefit is that unlike Paper it does not break any vanilla mechanics. 1. Minecraft installations are not hard at all. • 2 yr. Minecraft community on reddit. Create is forge and sodium is fabric, so optifine. why are you talking about other mods that we do not care about this is literally hypixel. Optifine is on forge and sodium is for fabric. Optifine vs. x, 1. qShad_ said: *cough* *cough* Optifine also removing game code making mods such as twilight forest unstable and even crash the game. 4. Not sure about sodium but recommend to stick to optifine as the fps boost settings are in optifine you just want to play with each settings and see which one boosts your fps. For me, sodium + iris gives the best results. Что я и решил. This improves game startup Not Enough Crashes. Continue this thread. For those of you that have used the Lithium mod and optifine, which improved your performance best and can they both be used at the same time? I think lithium is better for fps but worse for settings and features. 7. Optifine for looks, sodium for fps, I use sodium + lithium + phosphor and it performs better and loads much better. I average 60 fps, so yeah, very playable. 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. What are the mods I could use with Sodium to have basically all functionality of Optifine? For example: Iris, Entity Model. 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. Sodium can. 6. With a combo of Sodium (and Iris if using shaders) + Lithium + Starlight, I get more fps than OptiFine. 2 is really not that much that most people will care. ago. Ahhh i see. com. 16 and 1. Sodium vs Optifine. Required core sub-mod for a majority of Sodium-adjacent mods, adding API access to the Fabric. Minecraft Sandbox game Open world Action-adventure game Gaming. Imagine a machine that can't handle 60fps in vanilla and only manages 20. . Massively improves chunk loading by multithreading it I tried FerriteCore but it actually decreased my performance a little. 最新の. 20 with Optifine version HD U I5 pre7 and Sodium version 0. Simply Optimized is a purely performance enhancing pack, with the only additional mod being Iris Shaders. I currently use optifine but am considering switching to sodium. Reduce simulation distance, you dont need it that high. ago. While OptiFine has extra features like better grass and connected textures, Sodium has better performance overall without the extra additions. 6 work with 1. Sodium and Optifine are incompatible with each other. 19 support, while sodium already had 1. I'm also aware that sodium uses fabric rather than forge, but I'm happy to. 2 to latest. 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. ago. ago. PiBombbb • 1 yr. 1 is at 20% done (Join the discord), so probably wait another few days. Minecraft Sandbox game Open world Action-adventure game Gaming. While exploring the new cherry groves biome in Minecraft version 1. r/fabricmc. I do not recommend FastCraft, as it is the source of many crashes and bugs. x and so on) and has more mods for certain versions like 1. ago. Simply Optimized has C2ME, Fastload, MoreCulling and Immediately fast, so in theory it's faster than Fabulously Optimized. For shaders, Oculus (for Forge) is the closest for providing support for shaders, that work with existing Optifine shader packs. 2 forge, so I can't use it for shaders. ago. Any ideas why?OptiFabric OptiFine VS Sodium & Iris Shaders 1. 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 gives me slightly better performance than Optifine with and without shaders. 0. OptiFine by default looks better for less of a performance bump. Go to Minecraft. 19 support, while sodium already had 1. 1 is one of the best pieces of news we can give to users with low-end equipment. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. Shader FPS comparison. •. ago. Starlight. 5+ so if you're on 1. I varied the graphical settings of Optifine for each test. 2 . Toastieez. ago. Sodium is the best client-side optimisation mod available at the moment, and we highly recommend installing it when possible. Lunar C. sodium is increase fps by alot but is on the latest version. Well Halogen worse. Shaders that work on sodium? I've always used Optifine and Forge but recently I foud out about Fabric and Sodium, and the smoothness of everything is unbelievable (my laptot is not a potato, more like a. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. gordonche. I generally wouldn't recommend using optifine as it leads to a lot of compatability issues. It's better to just switch multiple mods that do the same thing but faster and better. Magnesium or optifine or chlorine for 1. (They all either require optifine or are not compatible with sodium)Canvas renderer works well enough as a stopgap until Sodium 1. Sodium is free and open-source, i highly recommend it. When you download Optifine, put the JAR file in the mods folder. look, the 3 mods have performed way better than optifine on the *majority* of pcs. 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. 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 my brother got an m2 macbook pro and rubidium works well with shaders (it slows down with. ago. I did go ahead with Sodium Reforged though and it's a night and day difference in my performance (average FPS is much higher and far less micro stuttering). 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. Sodium is just fps and lack all other optifine feutures (dynamic lights, shaders, zoom, etc. Optifine finally gets some worthy competition and the competitor is called Sodium. 10. With optifine 1. Mods like Optifine and Lithium are merely band aids to a far more developed problem. I tried Sodium last week and am very impressed, and I tried Canvas as well but as far as I can tell there. Minecraft version 1. Starlight is compatible with Optifine so you can use both. Also, all mods are use at your own risk. 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). OptiFabric OptiFine VS Sodium & Iris Shaders 1. ago. Below is the fix I found while browsing this sub. 6 for 1. 11. Played a fair bit of MC, but not so much with mods. I'm on 1. Shaders have become a need for me because regular minecraft without shaders look. Some of the major issues of OptiFine include: It is monolithic. Nope. MikemkPK. 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%. Mods must not refer to a cheat client. BetterFPS is an option. R5 3600, RTX 3060, and 16gb ram. Optifine is a mod that pretty much everyone has used for years that allows you to fine-tune the settings and increases performance. 20 released. Try Fabric with Sodium, Iris (you have to get both from Modrinth, they're not on CurseForge) and the Controlify mod. Zhaunlouk. FreeSync Premium - This does reduce FPS but offers adaptive synchronization to eliminate visual tearing and more. 2 or older you can't use them) As for the compatibility, it should actually improve since OptiFine's mod compatibility is pretty bad. 20. 18 survival. Can we please just accept that it is 2023 and it is normal for players to have a lot of XP levels in minecraft. Install fabric, download fabric API, download sodium, put both in "mods" folder and start Minecraft "fabric" installation from the launcher. g. I mainly play on a server, if that matters. And, at least in my case Sodium/Magnesium helped performance much more. 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. 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. 2keanon7. 19 not quite released yet I decided to try iris with fabric because I missed my shaders. I've done a lot of reading online but still can't find a clear answer. Sodium consistently ranks better for me. 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. So sodium is a performance mod that you run through fabric loader, while Optifine is kinda like a stand alone mod pack of sorts. 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. Canvas more similar to Optifine than Sodium, in that it provides a smaller (but still noticable) performance boost in addition to some visual overhauls and improvements. 2. ago. Needless to say it performance somewhat better until you force it. You can use Essential, it’s a mod that improves the game with a lot of quality of life features, like zoom, inviting your friends to your single player world, cosméticas, emotes and more! And it updated like 2 hours after 1. Do. ago. 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. 5. It also depends on the device, if optifine is better you can use optifine and if sodium is better you use sodium. The only things missing in FO vs OptiFine are custom skies (for resource packs) and anisotropic filtering. 5 version. Curseforge: an online repository for mods and modpacks. ShaksterNano 2 yr. However optifine still had the advantage with shader support but here's where the new mod comes into play. Click it, and then, click the big green ‘Play' button. Vanilla (no mods) is a bit stuttery, still gets pretty good FPS, around the 200 to 300 FPS range. 16. Hbop_5009. Sodium oftens does the best, but on some system it can be worse than Optifine, you should try all of them. Mods like Sodium, Lithium, Starlight improve the fps, reduce stuttering, improve world loading times, make chunk loading faster and so on. Unlike Optifine nor Lunar Client, Sodium does not have any of the issues listed above. a comparison between Vanilla, Optifine, and Sodium. But optifine does make your mod loading longer, but if you're doing vanilla or just light mods theres barely a difference in. Phosphor is a Minecraft mod which works to optimize one of game's most inefficient areas-- the lighting engine. Bsl or sildurs or complementary. 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. ago. Iris and Sodium aretwo different mods that work together. 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. Best. Im not sure how exactly, but it definitely depends on hardware, plus other factors like mods. Sodium for Minecraft 1. There is canvas renderer, In my case i got much more fps than with sodium, but it (logically) isn't compatible with sodium. 16+ runs because it messes with the game's behavior. 20. I looked it up, the Starlight mod looks quite interesting. My laptop runs amazingly with optifine (60-80 fps, vs vanilla 20-30), but is barely better than vanilla with all the optimal sodium mods (30-40). Aug 31, 2021. 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. I didn't know that! I figured it out, I just got iridium and oculus, the controller mod I mentioned is working now. 2. x, 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. OptiFine has way more options than FastCraft, but they both generally do the same things. With Phosphor, the amount of time the game takes to generate chunks can be halved for some. Sodium is for frames. 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. Iris is spefifically designed to improve your frames while running shaders. Go to your %appdata% folder and then the . 12 extensively enough. Somehow it actually runs worse for me. Ayo, don’t necro. Still I get around 20-50fps, which isn't bad but it's not even stable and constantly jumps frames. 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. 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. sodium on fabric will definitely not give you that much of an fps boost since the modmaker said that in the sodium subreddit that for waaaaaaay more toaster pcs.