What does it mean to increase fps in Minecraft?

How To INCREASE Your FPS In Minecraft! ANY VERSION! (Updated 2021 Tutorial)

Game Settings[]

Most of the following suggestions are configurable in the games Options menu, accessible by pressing Esc.

Turn down your render distance.

Set Maximum FPS to Unlimited; however, lower-mid end PCs will experience stutter.

Reduce Graphics from Fabulous! to Fancy or Fast.

Turn off smooth lighting and clouds.

Reduce your FOV.

Set Particles to Minimal.

Turn off V-Sync.

If the mouse cursor is lagging, change the mouse sensitivity to HYPERSPEED!!!.

Disable mipmaps. Note that this can result in water/lava drips not being visible, and thus taking a lava bath.

Disable biome smoothing.

Reduce the size of the games window, as this makes the game render less, making the game run a little bit faster.

• If your computer has a better graphics card, you might want to enable full screen, as this will make your GPU focus more on Minecraft and less on other programs. Test both ideas and see which setting works best!

Install optimization mods.

• OptiFine is the most well-known optimization mod, but only supports either running by itself or as a Forge mod. However, in more recent times there have been mods such as Sodium, made for Fabric.
• Note that Sodium only supports Minecraft 1.16+ with Fabric/Quilt and cant be installed together with OptiFine, but provides significantly higher performance than OptiFine on most PCs. Sodium can be paired with Starlight and Lithium to speed up lighting updates and general game systems respectively. Phosphor may also be used in place of Starlight, although Starlight is several times faster than Phosphor. You cannot run both Starlight and Phosphor at once, so it is suggested to use Starlight. Other optimization mods to use alongside Sodium for Fabric include:
  • LazyDFU speeds up the games startup.
  • DashLoader caches the games content, allowing you to load faster. Can be used alongside LazyDFU.
  • Cull Leaves skips rendering of leaves obscured by blocks.
  • DynamicFPS lowers the games FPS when the games window is no longer in focus.
  • FerriteCore optimizes RAM usage. This doesnt by itself improve performance, but it allows more tasks to be run in the background.
  • Krypton optimizes the network stack.
  • Enhanced Block Entities makes some block entities use block models rather than laggy entity models.
• However, if you absolutely want to run Forge mods, then here are some options:
  • There are multiple Forge ports of Sodium available. They are NOT and will never be compatible with OptiFine or each other.
    • Rubidium seems to be more up-to-date than Magnesium.
    • Magnesium though is a bit more popular.
  • Starlight Forge is the official Forge version of Starlight, to optimize the lighting engine.
  • RoadRunner is an unofficial port of Lithium for Forge, to optimize general game systems.
  • FerriteCore Forge is the official Forge version of FerriteCore, to reduce RAM usage.

If your computer is hot or your fan is loud, avoid running mods which add a lot of content and dont do anything that causes your computer to run a lot of calculations. This means closing any browsers or other games.

If you want to run shaders, use Iris instead of OptiFine. Iris has compatibility with most OptiFine shaders(with some exceptions) and is much faster due to being an add-on for Sodium.

• Or, if you want to run Forge mods, use Oculus. The creator recommends using Rubidium as the Sodium base.

Outside of Minecraft[]

Close any programs in the background, including any internet browsers like Chrome, Opera, and Firefox, or at the very least minimize them.

On Windows, open Task Manager and go to the details section, find javaw.exe (the one the game uses), right click it and set its priority to “High” (not “Realtime”, as realtime will try to allocate all of the PCs resources (RAM/CPU/GPU) to the game, not leaving enough for Windows to function, causing it to freeze or even blue-screen).

Make sure you have enough RAM available (in a program such as a task manager), else your computer may swap to disk, which could cause the game to stutter intermittently.

On laptops and most pre-built desktops, uninstall bloatware.

The current Minecraft Launcher is very, very slow to boot itself and the game. Instead of using it, try checking out some third-party launchers. Beware as they are not associated with Mojang, especially if they are not open source. Some trusted launchers are:

• MultiMC – A launcher focuses on predictability, long term stability and simplicity. It allows you to have multiple isolated instances of the game. It is very fast and also allows you to kill the game if it freezes. It is mostly written in C++. The source code is hosted on GitHub and is under the Apache 2.0 license.
• PolyMC
• GDLauncher It is written in JavaScript with Electron.
• Technic Launcher
• ATLauncher

Do frequent malware scans with an antivirus program, to ensure no malicious programs are consuming computer resources.

Do not run other CPU- or GPU-intensive programs while the game is open.

On Windows Vista through Windows 7, disable graphical effects such as Windows Aero and taskbar transparency.

Disable compositing (sometimes called “desktop effects”) on GNU/Linux. When compositing is disabled, all window managers tend to give similar performance, so there is no need to use a “lightweight” one.

Update your graphics card drivers. You can find these on your GPU manufacturers website.

Disable anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering in your GPU driver settings.

Ensure the computer is running at a cool enough temperature so as to not cause thermal throttling. This is especially effective for laptops and older desktops. If the computer is too hot, look into cleaning out dust.

Reduce the display resolution. Play Minecraft in windowed mode and make it about half the size of your screen.

You may be able to switch your operating system to a Linux distribution, depending on what you use your computer for. Linux is generally easier on the computers resources compared to Windows. However, it is important to research hardware/software compatibility (for example, Nvidia graphics cards) before switching operating systems. This makes the most effect on AMD graphics cards, which can see a 2x performance improvement from Linux drivers on OpenGL games such as Minecraft! There are many distributions to choose from, but some recommended distros for beginners include Fedora(if you like getting the latest Linux technologies) or Pop!_OS(especially if you have an Nvidia GPU or hybrid graphics).

If you are playing on a desktop computer, look into upgrading your graphics card, which can help the game render objects faster.

Method 1: Close RAM intensive tasks

RAM intensive tasks like web browsers and word processors can use a lot of memory and thus, might cause low FPS on your games. So you can end those tasks while gaming.

1) Press Windows logo key and R together on your keyboard and type taskmgr.

2) Under the Processes tab, right-click on the task you want to close and select End task.

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