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OptiFine - Mod Tutorial [1.4.5]

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Many people use OptiFine. It's become one of the greatest known mods, and also one of the most helpful. If you're playing on a slow laptop like I am, you know how frustrating it is to get random lag spikes in Minecraft. OptiFine fixes that in an amazing way. It adds numerous additional options in the Video Settings Menu, allowing you to configure how smoothly your Minecraft should run. Plus, it adds a neat zooming feature (automatically set to the left 'CTRL' button) so you can always see far away objectsand gives a detailed description for all Video Settings options, . Also, if you've ever wanted to change your texture pack in-game, OptiFine allows you to do so! One last thing: You probably use high-resolution texture packs, and for those you would need MCPatcher. Not anymore! OptiFine provides support for all high-resolution texture packs, so MCPatcher would not be needed anymore.

Download:

Please Click Here
(Scroll down to where it says "OptiFine HD D3 Ultra for Minecraft...")
[The Ultra version is the best version in my opinion, but you could pretty much choose any of the choices.]

Now, you may have downloaded this marvelous mod, but you're probably going to ask, "HOW IN THE WORLD DO I CONFIGURE THIS?" or something like that. But fear not, for OptiFine shows a little description for each option, informing you what each option should be set to for the best performance. If you are afraid of messing something up, try following my settings for OptiFine Smooth listed below. They actually brought me better performance than I ever had before!

Default Options:


  • Graphics - Fast
  • Render Distance - Tiny to Small
  • Smooth Lighting - Off
  • Performance - Max FPS
  • 3D Anaglyph - Off
  • View Bobbing - Off
  • GUI Scale - Normal

OptiFine Settings:


Default Menu:
  • Advanced OpenGL - Fast (without OptiFine, you would only be able to set this to 'On' or 'Off')
  • Chunk Loading - Smooth
  • Fog - Fast
  • Fog Start - 0.8

Details Menu:
  • Clouds, Trees, Water, Grass, Rain and Snow options - All set to 'Fast'
  • Sky, Sun and Moon, Depth Fog options - All set to 'On'
  • Cloud Height - 100%
  • Stars, Show Capes options - Both set to 'Off'

Quality Menu:
  • Mipmap Level - Max
  • Mipmap Type - Linear
  • Anisotropic Filtering - Off
  • Antialiasing - 2
  • Clear Water, Random Mobs, Better Snow, Custom Fonts, Custom Colors, Swamp Colors, Smooth Biomes, Natural Textures options - All set to 'On'
  • Better Grass, Connected Textures - Both set to 'Fast'

Animations Menu:
  • IF USING A TEXTURE PACK - Click 'All On' button at lower left-hand corner
  • IF USING DEFAULT TEXTURE PACK - Click 'All On' button, but change Lava and Water options to 'Dynamic'

Performance Menu:
  • Smooth FPS - On
  • Smooth World - On
  • Load Far - Off
  • Preloaded Chunks - Off
  • Chunk Updates per Frame - 3
  • Dynamic Updates - On

Other Menu:
  • Lagometer - Off
  • Debug Profiler - Off
  • Weather - On
  • Fullscreen - Off
  • Fullscreen Mode - 1366x768
  • Server Textures - On
  • Autosave - 20s



I hope this quick tutorial helped you as much as it helped me! A diamond is greatly appreciated, and I would love to see your own personal settings for OptiFine in the comments section below! Thanks so much for reading, and I hope to have more success on this blog than I did on my last one!

Also, if you have the time, please go check out my other blog on other ways to boost Minecraft:
Click here, and you'll get a cake!
CreditThe creator of this awesome mod: sp614x
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1
01/21/2020 2:59 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
Skeletron01
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i installed optifine but am unsure how to get it into minecraft since i cant find it on the page
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12/28/2015 2:56 pm
Level 43 : Master Dinosaur
Danton15h
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I end up with white boxes in all of my menus instead of the buttons themselves, how do I fix this
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12/09/2012 11:04 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Robot
AwesomeLegend99
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5 diamonds please?
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11/25/2012 6:43 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
cyclonike
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Thanks a lot for doing this, but I didn't see anything telling us how to use the zoom feature, can you please tell me how to do that?
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11/28/2012 3:47 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Robot
AwesomeLegend99
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The control for zooming in is automatically set to the Left "CTRL" button. Thanks for the feedback!
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03/03/2013 9:55 pm
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TheWindMask
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is there a way to turn autosave off?
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03/06/2013 3:30 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Robot
AwesomeLegend99
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Sorry, but no, there isn't. You could ask some mod-makers to think about that as an idea for a mod, though.
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06/17/2012 8:00 am
Level 37 : Artisan Skinner
terreen
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thanks, this helped
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06/18/2012 12:33 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Robot
AwesomeLegend99
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No prob bro
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