This setting is introduced by Optifine and allows you a finer level of control over how the Smooth Lighting is applied. It has a very minimal effect on performance we suggest leaving it on because toggling it to the lower settings is pretty ugly (and you gain very little FPS boost in return). This setting is identical to vanilla Minecraft.

Switch to “Fast” to disable the effects and increase FPS. “Fancy” is more resource intensive it turns on shadow rendering, dynamic water, volumetric clouds, and transparent leaves, among other things. Several settings are present in both regular Minecraft and Optifine we’ll note when they are and explain what’s different.

Let’s take a look at each setting one by one, working out way first through the single toggles on the main Video Settings page (those items that have no sub-menus) and then looking at the sub-menus individually.įor ease of reference we’ll use a table with the setting on the left-hand side and the explanation on the right. It’s really easy to get lost in the Optifine configuration menu, despite the pretty well developed hover-tips that appear when you mouse over a given button or option. Configuring Optifine: A Point-by-Point Breakdown If you already have a modded copy of Minecraft and Optifine installed, continue onward. If you’ve stumbled upon this article without reading the previous Minecraft modding tutorial, we’d strongly urge you to jump back and give it a solid read over before continuing.

Let’s take a look at the guts of the Optifine menu and break down what the options found therein do. While we can’t promise that level of improvement, we have yet to install Optifine on a machine and not see either the concrete FPS rise and/or the overall performance improve. With Optifine on the default settings it will play Minecraft at 15 FPS with additional tweaking it will play Minecraft at 24-30FPS or so. Without Optifine the computer renders vanilla Minecraft at 3-6 FPS and the game is choppy and unplayable. The ultrabook was made for great battery life and a slim form factor, not serious gaming. Great battery life, great portable profile, but not so great in the GPU department. One of our laptops, for example, is a super slim ultrabook from a few years back. Not only is Optifine great for all computers running Minecraft (Mojang, as much as we love Minecraft, has been a little sloppy with their GPU and graphic optimization code), it can take a computer that barely renders Minecraft and provide a playable experience. While we wouldn’t devote an entire lesson to a single gameplay-tweaking mod, we can’t stress enough how great Optifine is and why you should install it and seriously configure it.

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