HomeNewsMinecraft
Minecraft’s mega performance mod now supports shadersLovely shade
Lovely shade
In the past year, I’ve been ina battlebetweenMinecraft’s performance and acceptable aesthetics. Ultimately, I came down on the side of performance. I installed a series of mods based around the Fabric API. They boosted my frame rate to the moon while retaining the game’s visual charm, but I couldn’t add any ofMinecraft’s best shadersto it. Shaders run on the Forge API, and require Optifine, which isn’t nearly as performance enhancing as the Sodium mod running on Fabric. It chafed.
But I just discovered a mod that could change everything.Iris Shadersruns on Fabric and adds shader support to Sodium. The battle might be over!
This New Minecraft Mod Gives You Incredible Performance With ShadersWatch on YouTube
This New Minecraft Mod Gives You Incredible Performance With Shaders
AsianHalfSquatspied the mod that made my dreams come true. There’s nothing complicated about installing it, and it even installs the correct version of Sodium for you. My mod column on thebest Minecraft performance modstalks through how best to grab Fabric and install mods for it. Iris Shaders follows that same method.
It enhances almost everything.Insidethe graphics settings for Sodium is a ‘Shaders’ tab that lets you drag and drop them into the game. I did so with the excellent Complementary Shaders and enabled them. This is not a thorough benchmark, but I was looking at 70fps at a 22 view distance. The same config on Forge using Optifine would hover somewhere in the 20fps range. And the game looked gorgeous.
The Best Minecraft ShadersWatch on YouTube
The Best Minecraft Shaders
What’s currently missing is wider support for all of Optifine’s shaders.Voyager Shaders 2, a set I’ve been looking forward to trying out, doesn’t load. Neither does SEUS PTGI, which adds ray tracing. And there are currently no options to tweak the shaders, so you’d better hope you like whatever works as is for now.
But those all seem like fixable problems in the grand scheme of things.Iris Shadersalready works well enough, on Minecraft 1.17, for me to plan on using them daily.
