Question: OptiFine worth it?

[SwedishDragon]

Been playing FTB Vanilla+ (MC 1.7.10) lately and besides no connected textures by default and some slight stuttering at times, i have no issues with how it runs, but i am a bit on the fence about using OptiFine with it just because of a bit smoother FPS and connected textures, as OF has to be handled manually, and i am basically wondering what whoever is reading this thinks, is it worth the (possible) hassle of manually updating and/or things (possibly) breaking everytime a modpack is updated?


As a side-note, there are bordeless windows (as it's own "entity"/"texture", just not the for the default glass, which i might not use much anyway) and the (i think) Ztones thingie already in there, which also seem to give quite the borderless custom glass textures.


It would seem like i don't really need it when playing FTB Vanilla+ (i use it when playing unmodded MC though), but what do you people think?

EDIT/ADD: If i were to use OptiFine with Vanilla+ (1.7.10) anyway, would i be right in my choice of "OptiFine_1.7.10_HD_U_D1" with Chunk Loading set to "Smooth" (avoiding Multi-Core since it glitches out the textures)?

Also, are the any options/settings/functions that are known to cause issues with common mods and/or FTB in general?

EDIT/ADD2: Turning off Fast Render seems to have solved some texture glitches (mainly concerning Carpenter's Blocks with (in-game) user-added textures when watched at a distance, it seems). Just for the record.

 

[Aetherpirate]

Compare your results to Fastcraft, your results may vary widely depending upon what mods you have in your pack.

 

[SwedishDragon]

Compare your results to Fastcraft, your results may vary widely depending upon what mods you have in your pack.

I'm playing "Vanilla" Vanilla+, after working out the quirks with some of the settings (mainly the "Multi-threading" Chunk Loading option and the "Fast Render" option) and testing for a bit i must say that i will most likely continue to use OptiFine when playing Vanilla+ (That's a strong "most likely" btw).

Only encountered one problem so far (not sure if it even had to do with including OptiFine), one wall in the house i built (all the same blocks), went fully black, but that fixed itself after reloading the graphics via the Debug Command [F3+T], and now it works fine.

Thanks for the input.

 

[SwedishDragon]

...maybe i spoke a bit too soon, i now seem to get lag spikes while placing blocks, seemingly at random, also, moving the "Max FPS" slider seems to screw things up and after a slight bit of testing it would seem that it only saves that setting after restarting the whole game, is this normal?

PS. The lag spikes when placing blocks (or removing grass/fern/similar) seems to get a bit better when putting "Max FPS" at "VSync" and then making sure it saves the setting, but i'm not sure (i haven't tested it extensively yet, and i'm off to bed for today). *Insert Villager "Hmm.." Here*