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. x). Sodium aims to be a zero-compromise rendering engine replacement that doesn't interfere with vanilla features. 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 optimisations and its own shader support (not compatible with optifine shaders)for other features of optifine,there are. •. Optifine vs Sodium FPS Stress Test. Optifine is also more well-rounded with its added features like Connected Textures, Custom Entity Models, and a lot more customizability. Starlight x Create would be better, but it was. 12 and FoamFix is only up to 1. 19. 16. 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. TL;DR: If you only want performance, use Simply Optimized. Vanilla 40-60, optifine 60-80, sodium. I'm not trying to start a "which is better" debate. Optifine or Magnesium? My friend and i have set up a small server including some forge mods, which tweak the game in small ways. Sodium is for frames. In terms of performance, Sodium & co. Forge and Fabric are modloaders, you nees them for most mods nowdays. Sodium consistently ranks better for me. FPS Drop from 60-80 (Optifine) to 40-50 (Sodium), tends to fluctuate between 30 and 60. 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. 19 Comparison Lentern 3. g. • •. lordlucario_ • 1 yr. 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. Sodium is free and open-source, i highly recommend it. 1. *some* people did get less fps compared to optifine. It’s tempting to use one catch-all mod instead of Sodium, Iris, Indium, Connected Textures, and WI Zoom. 19 (Image via @OptiFineNews Twitter/CurseForge) OptiFine and Sodium are two of the. Unfortunately Optifine shaders are rendered in OpenGL and cannot render (will crash) in Vulkan. Curseforge: an online repository for mods and modpacks. • 2 yr. 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. And is upgraded early after the new version is released. • 4 mo. It also depends on the device, if optifine is better you can use optifine and if sodium is better you use sodium. #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. As someone that migrated from optifine to sodium, you can 100% recreate the experience better and smoother with a few mods. 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 stable, and therefore the better option for players to use. It has awful support on Fabric/Quilt. Optifine is for features. also vulkan support could allow real raytacing which is not possible due to the opengl that java has. Yes, that's the official one and yes, it should be safe. Still I get around 20-50fps, which isn't bad but it's not even stable and constantly jumps frames. I'm not sure if it works with 1. the difference vs the original list is that it encompasses more versions (e. 2. . Ahhh i see. 16 game elements and is therefore banned. Phosphor (another optimization mod by the Sodium devs, targeting the built-in lighting system) . 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. . An unofficial community for Fabric, the Minecraft: Java Edition mod loader. mostly looking for mods to make the game run smoother plus the zoom. 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. Optifine is the "easiest" way, but it's a client only optimisation which is not really compatibility friendly. Hoffmanm106 • 2 yr. I know for sure they arent compatible in 1. ago. I average 60 fps, so yeah, very playable. 4M subscribers in the Minecraft community. For FPS, magnesium would probably be the best. 1. 2 vs Forge. Curseforge: an online repository for mods and modpacks. 7. There, click on Sodium, click Select mod for download, and then press OK. 11. В общей массе существует такое мнение, что содиум это такая волшебная штучка в оптимизации. idk if MX350 is high end, but iris+sodium gives me 2x~3x more fps than optifine. Simply Optimized is a purely performance enhancing pack, with the only additional mod being Iris Shaders. Thanks! [deleted] • 2 yr. 12 extensively enough. 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. Lithium (further optimization, also by Sodium devs) . Optifabric broke with recent fabric api (4 full versions ago) on any version and that still hasn't been addressed. But nobody plays with 1000 FPS, and Optifine. • 3 yr. As I said in your other post, generally speaking Rubidium and Oculus will have more bugs than Sodium and Iris, though this may be exemplified by the fact that most of the mods that would cause bugs are on forge. In addition, there are more mods that provide optifine functionality. Nope. For example, the original commenter said sodium + iris was better for performance, but for me optifine is better. Sodium reduced pretty much all the stuttering and it had the highest FPS, bravo sodium. 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. 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. optifine is kinda terrible on versions after 1. sodium (wayyy better than optifine btw) shaders: iris (also with amazing performance) connected textures: continuity / cbt grass sides: LambBetterGrass dynamic. The newer versions of optifine lack quality. Sodium is not over hyped at ALL. I'm also aware that sodium uses fabric rather than forge, but I'm happy to. Minecraft/Sodium would have to be changed to natively use it. This was an issue with Optifine in early builds (around 2011-12) but after a decade this seems more stable. I'd say that's probably the main reason it's still so popular. If you don't need that customization, shaders and enhanced resourcepacks, Sodium will be a good choice. 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. 19. I've never seen anyone do a comparison of Sodium vs. 2 soon. Well Halogen worse. Radplay • 6 days ago. so, yeah, Optifine doesn't seem to be too well optimized right nowSodium #. 2 ones ive had good luck with including most of them WITH optifine. Sodium is better in terms of performance but also use lithium and starlight. 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. As of now, only Sodium 0. **The best max and med fps. and Iris and sodium are mods. TL;DR: If you only want performance, use Simply Optimized. Go to Minecraft. If you want to use shaders, then you could try rubidium and oculus. Sodium improves rendering, phosphor improves the lighting engine, lithium improves general things like mob AI. Don't use it though, it's abandoned. 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). However, Optifine has shader settings, whereas IRIS has no shader settings. Sodium is the Mod that has. [deleted] 3 yr. Yeah but iris includes a version of sodium modified to work with it, so if. Switching to sodium - questions. As people have mentioned, Iris for shaders, okzoomer is also great for optifine zoom features. From there, find the profile titled ‘Fabric'. In many cases, Sodium alone can give much better fps than OptiFine. If you don't need that customization, shaders and enhanced resourcepacks, Sodium will be a good choice. It either crashes the game before I load in or I get into the menu, and the game crashed right as the world is about to load. ago. Sadly, performance between single player and multi-player seems to be equal for me at least. Actronix. 18. Indium. • •. was just updated from one version to the other. They're technically two mods. . Also lunar client doesn't support mod. Sodium + Iris Bundle. . (This is in 1,8 and all versions, fps may fluctuate on higher versions) I have a pretty trashy laptop, normal Minecraft (lowest settings) I get 60-40 fps. 2 FPS comparison to see vs OptiFine and OptiFabric vs Sodium and Iris Shaders 1. 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. Fabric is the new kid on the block, that seems to be quite popular now and prefered when it comes to. Personally, I've been using the Fabulously Optimized modpack, which includes some of the best performance boosting mods (Sodium, Starlight, Lithium, etc. • 1 yr. 3 yr. It makes the optics fine, and yes. Iris and sodium have mod compatibility as well. But I've seen a video from AsianHalfSquat on youtube, talking about the sodium mod, that would give him INSANE FPS compared to optifine : a truly better optimisation mod. OptiFine is really old and hasn't had any meaningful perfomance-related updates in a long time. Posted by u/250r_go_brrrrrr - 1 vote and 3 commentsHowever, "is it out" is always 100% self-answerable via the website. The Forge ports are alright, but Forge itself is a bit heavy. • 7 mo. I varied the graphical settings of Optifine for each test. This video will compare Sodium VS Optifine and help you decide which is the best mod for you! We'll also be giving you tips on how to install and use each mod,. Optifine is basically becoming obsolete finally because it isn't an open project and the dev refuses to work with modders. Bsl or sildurs or complementary. it gives a much larger frame boost. Your best bet is to simply create two profiles and test them both. Optifine supports shaders, which adds stuff like different lightings, far better shadows and dynamic darkness and waving water, leaves and fire. If Optifine offered dependable and impressive performance improvements, and the developer worked well with others, sure. (and. 17 yet. Sodium is the best client-side optimisation mod available at the moment, and we highly recommend installing it when possible. 6. fabric mod loader/ for sodium lithium and phosphorlithium download…Zealousideal_Zone_69 • 1 yr. 17. 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. I have a decent computer (Ryzen 5 3600 & GTX 1080) and used to always make sure I had Optifine, but now I only get 60 fps with it (no shaders), whereas vanilla I got around 200 fps. This is purely my speculation, therefore it is not accurate. Hbop_5009. Optifine felt just as stuttery and it had way lower FPS, a little weird that it performed worse than Vanilla. a comparison between Vanilla, Optifine, and Sodium. Best. ago. That's why people recommend using Forge ports of Sodium, Iris, Lithium, Starlight, etc. OF features - Animatica, Colormatic, Continuity, Indium (Required. Optifine As far my testing went, Optifine seems to be compatible with the mods in this pack. Sodium or optifine? Attlaan Aug 30, 2021 Not open for further replies because of inactivity. TL;DR: If you only want performance, use Simply Optimized. R5 3600, RTX 3060, and 16gb ram. There are some mods that change the rendering from OpenGL to Vulkan. You have to choose one. 18. Note Optifine and default handle chunks differently, I had to bump up chunks to get it to render the same details on the sides, but even then 40 chunks Optifine gave the same as 32 default (and probably more. 2. Optifine is great, I agree. So you should always test it yourself. Thanks. I didn't know that! I figured it out, I just got iridium and oculus, the controller mod I mentioned is working now. 2, you will probably want to be looking into versions for those. What are the mods I could use with Sodium to have basically all functionality of Optifine? For example: Iris, Entity Model. Since the other performance mods are open source, they have little to no compatibility issues. 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. But Sodium has came out and it is far superior to OptiFine in many ways. Sodium definitely if you use Vanilla or Fabric. With a combo of Sodium (and Iris if using shaders) + Lithium + Starlight, I get more fps than OptiFine. Hi, I decided I would move from Optifine to sodium. 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. Sodium and Iris are made for Fabric, not Forge. 2 → 1. Optifabric allows you to use Optifine with Fabric. OptiFabric + OptiFine OptiFine isn't compatible with Sodium, you should remove it. **The best max and med fps. 19 support, while sodium already had 1. ago. Fabric performs better than vanilla even with no mods, but with Lithium and Phosphor it is leagues ahead. Attlaan said: optifine is on 1. 2. Then boot up the game, exit the game, and download the mods from the internet and put them into the Minecraft mods folder. Do. 19 support way before optifine. Sodium Vs. From here, we can click the green up arrow next to the ‘Play' button. The only allowed mods are sodium, lithium and phosphor (and that. 20. 32 Chunks Sodium ~69fps. 1. Required core sub-mod for a majority of Sodium-adjacent mods, adding API access to the Fabric. com. 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. I'm also aware that sodium uses fabric rather than forge, but I'm happy to. 1 is at 20% done (Join the discord), so probably wait another few days. With these two mods, you can also install Canvas. 1 update. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. On this machine they might be, because this machine can run vanilla at smooth frame rates. (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. 270. Natzival 3 yr. Bedrock on the other hand is. Fabulously Optimized is faster than OptiFine, thanks to modern performance mods like Sodium, Lithium, and others. TLDR: basically Minecraft with Sodium seems to be the best choice for performance and battery life but Vanilla minecraft without mods is also a good choice. Hey all, I run sodium, lithium, and phosphorus as they give way more performance vs optifine. 19. 3 like the others, joys of using old installs :) 16 Chunks Sodium ~219fps. 2 and Iris 1. 2 is really not that much that most people will care. 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. 3 yr. how the heck am I supposed to have both shaders and mods at the same time ? Archived post. g. Ayo, don’t necro. Internal server ticks are on average around 60ms with Optifine, but well over 70ms with Sodium. And for the bost well use the last version of create with flywell. Mods like Sodium, Lithium, Starlight improve the fps, reduce stuttering, improve world loading times, make chunk loading faster and so on. X, 1. Any tips to improve performance with iris in 1. OptiFine further optimizes Minecraft's performance with a variety of added options. OptiFine and Iris. 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. Needless to say it performance somewhat better until you force it. Now later I find out that my first laptop had its ram burned, but on the second laptop, while it may have low specs, isn’t the point of sodium that it increases FPS on low-end. It was built from the ground up to include that, along with better chunk gen algo, etc. CurseForge is a plattform for mods for different games, including Minecraft. Что я и решил. 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). 19. (Optifine zoom is useless with Ok Zoomer) Optifine zoom + Spyglass + Max Slowness + 30 FOV + Bow in off-hand + f1 = I can see the smallest thing that ever existed. ago. Iris isn't and never will be compatible with OptiFine. Hey. PiBombbb • 1 yr. OptiFine and Sodium are two of the best graphic mods for Minecraft 1. Now if only there was a merged mod. As Optifabric support ends in 1. Plus I forgot only very few uses development versions of both. 2 or older you can't use them) As for the compatibility, it should actually improve since OptiFine's mod compatibility is pretty bad. 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). 5 & 1. I really could use it. 1 to latest. - Just walking around Med: 300 fps. I do not recommend FastCraft, as it is the source of many crashes and bugs. Give them time, for me the new update just doesn't come out until my mods get updated lmao. So from what I heard online, Sodium was significantly better than Optifine, so I switched. First I tried fabric and sodium, I went from 50~ fps to 70~ but it dips a lot. Then install fabric with sodium and iris (maybe also indium and continuity if you want connected textures) and you can use shaders today. This list will list recommended OptiFine alternatives by me (LambdAurora), so it has some requirements for mods to be listed here: They must be publicly available, if it's only accessible through Discord they are not eligible. i'm playing on Fabric with Sodium, Iris and Indium. Fowlish. 14. p. Sodium is better in terms of performance but also use lithium and starlight. Which should i use for better fps in enigmatica 6? Magnesium, Sulfuric, Helium and RoadRunner are the complete. However, the difference was not noticeable. This definitely has everything to do with the fact that Sodium is a performance-oriented mod and Optifine improves gameplay all around. Sodium is far better anyway. 20, including OptiFine, Sodium, Vulkan, and many more. 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. Performance with Sodium should be flawless. I tried Sodium last week and am very impressed, and I tried Canvas as well but as far as I can tell there. 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. Optifine felt just as stuttery and it had way lower FPS, a little weird that it performed worse than Vanilla. I think it would be easier for Lunar to use OptiFine so as to not have to transfer all their mods to Fabric (idk if they use Forge but I do know fabric doesnt support 1. 40 Chunks Optifine ~140fps. Iris vs Optifine. With Phosphor, the amount of time the game takes to generate chunks can be halved for some. 45. 3. 18. That's why sodium is perfect for 2014 + hardware builds. ago. Although I am on linux with an amd cpu so im seeing. On the other hand, it has mods like ImmediatelyFast, FastLoad and C2ME, so in theory it is bit faster than FO. dev. 1K Share 161K views 3 years ago Sodium: Want to. Uncheck Vsync. 2 update for the Neoforge Mod loader will include code changes that will require mods to be built against it, not Forge. i recommend checking out my modpack at. I get worse performance on Sodium, idk why but I get like 20-30 frames on Sodium vs 100+ on Optifine. 1. All Sources and Dowloads are down below. ago. • 9 mo. Go to your %appdata% folder and then the . 16. I average 60 fps, so yeah, very playable. 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 does not meet its former glory. Phosphor is more popular because it's written by the same author as Lithium and Sodium, but Starlight is better. ago. 15. ago. You can use Rubidium + Canary + Starlight + Saturn + FerriteCore + LazyDFU for performance, Oculus for shaders and Magnesium/Rubidium dynamic lights + Magnesium/Rubidium Extras for dynamic lights but that's about it. Optifine/Sodium+Iris alternatives for Forge 1. OptiFine isn't the only way to use shaders. 16. 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. If you want (almost) full OptiFine feature parity, use Fabulously. 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. - Just walking around Med: 300 fps. sodium and magnesium are effectively the same for different platforms. 18. qShad_ said: *cough* *cough* Optifine also removing game code making mods such as twilight forest unstable and even crash the game. It included new features for shaders. Rubidium (Fabric: Sodium) – The alternative to OptiFine. For FPS, magnesium would probably be the best. 3. What I'm looking for is a better Optifine alternative that can be downloaded as one single file and added to modpacks, rather than a bunch of smaller downloads that I have to individually keep up to date on as one becomes obsoleted by another newer version or fork of the same thing. An FPS boost of any amount. 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. Best. Tried with default 2gb ram allocated, 4gb, and 6gb, no differences. The only things missing in FO vs OptiFine are custom skies (for resource packs) and anisotropic filtering. optifine is doesnt increase fps by alot but still really good. 1. and download build-artifacts. 2 forge, so I can't use it for shaders. here is the thing. There's no way to get all of the same features as OptiFine on Forge. 6. OptiFine VS. Action-adventure game Gaming. Also optifine has imrpvoed massively since 1. Easy as that, nothing complicated. I know why, optifine has built in compatibility with shaders, sodium doesnt. Sodium: to ask questions? Join the JellySquid discord! info about this I u. 20. Reduce simulation distance, you dont need it that high. 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. I do most of my playing on a server and I'm not sure which of these will be relevant. With 6-8 is more than enough. It has been well-tested and is compatible with Sodium, and it often provides a significant performance improvement over OptiFine under similar conditions, especially if OptiFine is not capable of fully utilizing your graphics card. 16. 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. Btw: why don’t you just test the performance yourself? It’s not a simple one or the other answer. However, I still recommend using Fabulously Optimized as that has sodium, iris.