

In this article, we’ll teach you how to install shaders, set them up for the best performance, and where to find all the necessary files. You, too, can make your copy of Minecraft look out of this world. Meanwhile, modders have found ways to make the game look amazing, especially if you have an RTX-compatible card such as the RTX 2070 or better. The blocky looks are certainly a part of its charm, and they certainly help with running the game well, even on older systems.

It wasn’t something to write home about when it came out in 2009 and certainly isn’t more than ten years later. But, let’s be perfectly honest here, it’s not a visual spectacle. Once Minecraft loads, we can go into "Options." -> "Video Settings." -> "Shaders.Minecraft is a fantastic game. Now we can select Optifine as well as all the shader pack/s we added in the right hand side and then hit "Enable Selected" to enable them:Īnd that's it. Then we can add the shader pack the same way we added Optifine to the instance, but instead of adding to the "Mods Folder" we add it as a "Shader Pack: If you don't already have a shader pack downloaded, you can browser some at. Next we'll need to add in our shader pack/s. Now we'll need to add Optifine to the instance by clicking "Edit Mods", then adding in the downloaded jar file for Optifine to the mods folder: Once installed, we can then download Optifine by visiting making sure to download the correct one for your Minecraft version: This is easiest using a Forge instance, so we'll install Vanilla Minecraft version 1.16.5 (latest at the time of writing) and select the Forge modloader: Second you'll need to add your shader pack/s to the instance.įirst we need to install Optifine. Adding in shader packs to your Minecraft instance is fairly simple. Shaders can make Minecraft look great, if you have a powerful enough computer to run them.
