Optifine Review

[Eino]

Hi Feed The Beast community,

today I want to share my feedback about Optifine. Many people says it removes lag. Is it true? No.

I used Optifine about 5 months. I tried it on Vanilla and now on Feed the Beast. All that I have to say is that it just increases lag by adding more processes for game to run. Optifine has many features, like chunk pre-loading, which is my favorite feature. If you really don't need it - don't use it.

Example Optifine doesn't have automated installer. If you are going to use it for texture pack support, use MCPatcher. It is lot of easier to use than Optifine and doesn't add any other enchantments to game.

- Eino

 

[Omicron]

There was a thread on this issue a week or so back. It really boils down to what I have posted there.

 

[Eino]

There was a thread on this issue a week or so back. It really boils down to what I have posted there.

Please, don't blame me up. This is a review and it contains info about Feed the Beast and vanilla Minecraft. Same thing is on vanilla (non-modded). I am not looking for a solution.

 

[Omicron]

Not trying to fix a perceived issue. Merely stating that people's experience with Optifine varies greatly, and a blanket statement of "Optifine does not improve performance" is flat-out wrong. What you need to say is "Optifine does not improve my performance", which makes a large difference.

 

[Evil Hamster]

Sorry, but that's not really a review. It's written like a rant and contains no fact only your opinion.

 

[FlukeSDS]

Optifine helps me (killer gaming rig) and my wife (surf the web laptop) tremendously. It's one of those "you have to try it for yourself" kinda deals. Without it, Minecraft is literally unplayable on my wife's laptop.

 

[upsbud]

I currently have a love/hate relationship with optifine. For one, she doesn't call often, and two it gives me 100+ fps with a 64x frame pack while tanking on default resolution. I have a dual core processor which is why I use multicore chunk loading and the only difference I see from that is some mob texture artifacts. Also, things will be going peachy until I do a 180 and the fps drops as my computer loads the stuff I looked at 5 seconds ago. Damn 180's. Looking at a vast forest from afar drops my fps down, which leads me to believe I need to upgrade my videocard to something with at least 1 gig of ram. I have a solid state hard drive too which is a godsend but far from god tech, Minecraft stutters even in a cave system. Is it the developers fault or do I need to start paying for dinner?

 

[warfighter67]

Optifine only helps some people's computers. It changes some of the core ways that Minecraft renders things. Your 'information' about how Optifine works is dead wrong. The performance boost, or in both your case and mine, loss, is dependent on your machine setup and what mods you have. Some mods don't play well with Optifine, and some machines don't play well with it.

In vanilla, I get a small performance boost. I have a really good machine though, so it isn't needed. With FTB modpack and TFC, my performance is actually worse.

Also, this is personal opinion, but I can't resist: MCPatcher in most cases is horrible. It doesn't play well with Forge, and thus FTB modpack or any mod worth downloading. Manually installing mods is also something that's extremely easy once you get the hang of it. Drag and drop files. It's not rocket science (or in this case, computer science)

 

[frederikam]

Well, i think optifine is much better than mcpatcher, i never really got that patcher to work, and optifine is just a mod that goes in your jar. I don't mind if it doesn't improve performance (but it could be nice).

 

[Evil Hamster]

I just tried it on my FTB build but got a black screen... Good thing I had a backup!

 

[Daxamar]

I love Optifine. Sad its not getting permission to be in FTB. On the bright side I have added it manually and it works like a charm.

 

[zemerick]

I just tried it on my FTB build but got a black screen... Good thing I had a backup!

You didn't need to do a backup and restore. Most mods that cause a crash will automatically be removed by the launcher. If they are not, you can easily just select disable. "Jar Mods" aren't actually permanently placed inside the jar like normal, making this system far more flexible.

I love Optifine. Sad its not getting permission to be in FTB. On the bright side I have added it manually and it works like a charm.

They're actually working to correct that, though it might still never happen. Last I heard they have permission as long as the file is still obtained from its main download. They just can't mirror it like they do everything else.

 

[Daxamar]

Good to hear they working on getting it added.

 

[bwillb]

Don't quit your day job...

 

[Daxamar]

I already have it added to FTB, for my use. I quit my day job over 20 years ago, tho.

 

[bwillb]

I already have it added to FTB, for my use. I quit my day job over 20 years ago, tho.

Not you, dingleberry

 

[Bnagers]

Eino, you didn't mention anything about your hardware but I suspect if you aren't getting any performance boost then you don't have the settings correctly configured.

 

[Eino]

Eino, you didn't mention anything about your hardware but I suspect if you aren't getting any performance boost then you don't have the settings correctly configured.

I do have setted them up.

I have 6GB of RAM and 4 cores on my processor. Also my graphic card is AMD Radeon HD 6650M (+ 1GB virtual memory)

 

[Bnagers]

Maybe your hardware is good enough that it doesn't need optifine then and so would get little benefit from installing it.