Turning the clouds off offers a very minor increase in performance. There’s no risk in turning it on (if you don’t have the right GPU, nothing will happen). Only works on machines with GPUs that support OpenGL 2.0+ helps increase FPS by only rendering what is visible to the player. When on, the players head bobs slightly while walking when off, the view is stable. Some users, however, do report better results with Optifine by setting their framerate to Max.
Your computer cannot display a frame rather higher than the refresh rate of monitor so limiting it to the refresh rate of your monitor (30, 60, or 120hz) is recommended. This section is actually a bit counterintuitive. In vanilla Minecraft your render distance maxes at 16 chunks. Setting indicates how far the Minecraft engine renders the game, in chunks, from the player’s current position. This setting is an enhanced version of the one in vanilla Minecraft. For use with traditional red-blue 3D glasses. If you want to make the game more difficult and more moody, adjust the fog closer so you see less of the world around you.įound in vanilla Minecraft. Whereas toggling the state of the fog will actually have a small impact on performance, adjusting the Fog Start (how near or far the fog from the player the fog begins) distance is a cosmetic change like adjusting the brightness. Allows you to adjust the fog render quality as Fancy, Fast, or Off.
Moody makes caves very dark whereas full brightness allows you to see without torches. No effect on performance, simply a gamma-style adjustment of in-game light levels. If you’re playing on a very large monitor and find the GUI to be too small, you can fix it here. Again, the performance boost here is minimal so only decrease the percentage if you’re looking to squeeze out an FPS boost on a very low-spec machine.Īdjusts the onscreen display (e.g. 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. For ease of reference we’ll use a table with the setting on the left-hand side and the explanation on the right.