The popular game Minecraft by Mojang offers the so-called shaders a good way to visually enhance the game. Minecraft usually has no, or very simple, non-dynamic shadows by default. A shader adds a dynamic and realistic light calculation to the game, including the popular shadows.Īttention: For a shader mod you need good hardware in your gaming PC or gaming laptop including your own gaming graphics card. Unfortunately, since the performance requirements of the various shader developers differ, it is not possible to create a uniform system requirement. Minecraft will probably run on an old office PC, but definitely not with a shader. Optifine is now installed in your Minecraft.
When you start Minecraft, you will find the new Optifine settings under Settings.
Download the OptiFine jar file and move it to the Minecraft folder under “Run (Win + R)” “% appdata%”.Under Mods, check whether Forge has started by looking in the list of Mods to see if Forge is there. If Forge is there, you can close Minecraft again.Start Minecraft and select “Forge” under Profile. Click on “Play”.
In order to be able to execute the file itself, an installation of Java is required. Ideally the latest Java version. You can find them HERE . In this tutorial, we first describe the simple variant with the downloaded file itself. There are several ways to install Optifine. One variant is the one with the mod loader Forge or with the downloaded file from Optifine itself.
You can find this site HERE . There you can download Optifine for various versions. In our case it is for version 1.15.1. The best place to go for Optifine is the developer’s site. It could look like this, for example: Where can I download Optifine? Optifine is a utility mod created by sp614x. It was designed to revise Minecraft’s lighting and rendering systems, increasing their efficiency and detail. Optifine is a purely client-side mod and crashes when loaded from a server. With Optifine it is possible to install and use so-called shaders.