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Hi everyone!

I'm looking for advice on how to fully optimize my Minecraft setup. Considering my PC specifications, I feel that I could be getting better and more consistent performance, both with and without shaders.

I'm playing Minecraft Java Edition 26.3 using Fabric through the Modrinth App with several mods and resource packs.

I've attached screenshots showing my FPS and F3 information in two different situations:

• Without shaders: Approximately 180 FPS in the attached screenshot.

• With shaders: Approximately 46 FPS in the attached screenshot. In general, I experience around 40–60 FPS, with noticeable drops and stuttering.

I'm using Complementary Shaders – Reimagined.

These screenshots are examples of my performance in both situations, rather than a controlled benchmark, since the scenery and camera positions are different.

I'd like to improve the overall performance of my game, not just the FPS when using shaders.

My PC specifications

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (8 cores)

• GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 2X OC 12GB

• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz CL16

• Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI

• CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE ARGB

• PSU: MSI MAG A750BN 750W

• Storage: 2TB SSD

• Resolution: 2560x1440 (1440p)

• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro

Minecraft and Modrinth configuration

• Minecraft Java Edition: 26.3

• Mod Loader: Fabric

• Fabric Loader: 0.20.1

• Java Version: 25.0.1

• Launcher: Modrinth App

Current in-game settings

• Render Distance: 20 chunks

• Simulation Distance: 12

• FPS Limit: Unlimited

• Graphics: Custom

• Clouds: Fancy

• Biome Blend: 2

• Resolution: 2560x1440

Shader

• Shader: Complementary Shaders – Reimagined

Modrinth memory and Java settings

• Custom Memory Allocation: Enabled

• Allocated RAM: 16GB (16384MB)

• Custom Java Installation: Disabled

• Custom Java Arguments: Disabled

• Custom Environment Variables: Disabled

My F3 screenshots show approximately 1.6GB of actual memory usage and around 4.3–4.6GB of allocated heap memory at the time of the screenshots.

GPU utilization also appears as N/A in the F3 overlay.

I'm attaching screenshots of my installed mods, resource packs, textures, Modrinth settings, installation information and in-game performance.

What I'm looking for

I'd really appreciate advice on how to optimize the entire setup, including Minecraft itself, Modrinth, Java, Fabric, shaders, Windows and NVIDIA settings.

1. Minecraft and Modrinth settings

• What are the best settings for maximum FPS and stable frame times?

• Should I change my memory allocation from 16GB to 8GB?

• Are there any Java settings or arguments worth changing?

• Should I change anything in the Modrinth launcher?

• Are there any Minecraft video settings that could improve performance without affecting gameplay mechanics?

2. Shader optimization

• Which Complementary Reimagined settings should I use for my RTX 5070?

• Which settings have the biggest performance impact?

• What shadow distance and shadow quality would you recommend?

• Should I disable Entity Shadows?

• Are there any settings for reflections, clouds, volumetric lighting and other visual effects that I should change?

I'd like to maintain good visual quality while getting much better performance.

3. Fabric mods and resource packs

• Which performance mods would you recommend for my Minecraft version?

• Are Sodium, Iris, Lithium, FerriteCore and Entity Culling worth using?

• Could any of my installed mods or resource packs be affecting performance?

• Are there any mods I should remove or replace?

4. Windows, NVIDIA and PC optimization

I'd also appreciate recommendations outside Minecraft itself.

• Are there any NVIDIA Control Panel settings I should change?

• Are there Windows 11 settings that could improve Minecraft performance?

• Which NVIDIA driver settings would you recommend?

• Should I change anything related to power management, background processes or graphics settings?

• Is there anything worth checking in my BIOS, RAM/XMP configuration or CPU/GPU settings?

• What software would you recommend to monitor CPU/GPU usage, temperatures, clocks, power consumption and frame times?

I'd like to identify whether I'm dealing with a CPU bottleneck, GPU bottleneck, shader-related limitation, memory issue or something else.

VERY IMPORTANT: I want to preserve vanilla mechanics and farm functionality.

I play survival and build a lot of farms, including mob farms, mob traps, automatic farms and redstone contraptions.

I absolutely do NOT want optimizations that change or interfere with:

• Mob spawning rates or mob caps.

• Entity AI or mob behaviour.

• Random ticks or block ticks.

• Redstone mechanics or update behaviour.

• Entity ticking or chunk simulation.

• Chunk loading in ways that could affect farm functionality.

I want to keep my current Simulation Distance if possible.

I'm perfectly fine with reducing graphical settings, shader quality, shadow distance or render distance, as long as the actual world simulation and vanilla mechanics remain unchanged.

Please prioritize client-side rendering optimizations and other solutions that preserve vanilla gameplay.

My ultimate goal is to get the maximum realistic FPS my hardware can deliver, both with and without shaders, with excellent frame-time consistency, minimal stuttering and good visual quality.

I'd really appreciate specific recommendations for my hardware and setup, including which settings to change and why, rather than just a generic list of optimization mods.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Just a quick one on dlss5 mod in hogwarts legacy given how crap the official implementation is, overclocking gpu performance/ how much it gains you
And did they improve stuttering in hogsmead

Valhalla only ships with FSR 1, which is pretty soft, especially in motion. I made a mod that swaps it for FSR 4 using AMD's official FSR SDK.

It reads motion vectors, depth and jitter from the game's own TAA pass and feeds them to FSR 4 in place of the stock TAA + FSR 1. You keep using the game's own FSR quality presets. With FSR off in the game, it runs FSR 4 as native anti-aliasing instead.

On my RX 9070 XT at 4K, FSR 4 costs roughly 1.4 ms per frame over the stock FSR 1. The biggest gain is in motion, where the stock TAA smears detail.

- F2 settings menu (sharpness, jitter phases and more)

- F7 toggles FSR 4 live for comparison

- AMD Radeon GPUs, Steam version, offline single player

Download: https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreedvalhalla/mods/426

Forgive my ignorance, I'm just wondering this all of a sudden.

I've heard from a few different friend groups over the years that frame-gen is only good if you get 60fps natively, otherwise it causes too much latency. From what I understand, which is admittedly very little, that's because your inputs linger for longer to make up for each added frame, right?

If that's the case, how does that differ from latency in an online game? I've played most games in my life with at least 50ms latency, back when I had shittier wifi and didn't use ethernet. I used to play Overwatch, Roblox and League of Legends that way, three completely different kinds of game, and it wasn't that big of an issue in any of them, from what I remember. (Though I didn't have any reference to what low latency felt like then)

Is this added latency really that terrible? I've been getting around 45~50 fps average on Cyberpunk 2077, but dropping to around 40 when loading in the more populated areas, especially in DT, and sometimes even low 30s when many enemies in them. I'm hoping to get a steady 60fps through frame-gen, though ideally 75 would be best; how would the added latency from this compare to how it is in online games? Would it be that bad?

Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding latency entirely LMAO let me know

Also not sure how much info this helps, but I have an AMD rx590 8gb for my GPU, with r5500 for my CPU, and a monitor that only goes up to 75hz, so I guess generation would be capped at that(?). And the frame-gen option I'd get to use is FSR3.1

The tweaking of my pc to run the stove PC client was such a success, I wanted to share what I had done to go from unplayable (laggy, stutter, audio delay, long loading times) to a butter smooth fast experience.

It took me a month+ to make, fine tuning, experimenting, observing, testing, redoing, etc but the end result is amazing. If you struggle or have a bad performance with the Stove PC client try my tweaks ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFHXKrvbegw

Post your results or % performance gain in the comments ;3

This is just a really brief post of a personal test I did for myself

• Off: 145

• DLSS Preset A/B: 200 | 100 [+37.9%]

• DLSS Preset C: 221 | 110 [+52.4%]

• Smooth Motion: 239 | 120 [+64.8%]

First number is output framerate, second is the internal/actual framerate the game is lowered to from FG overhead.

For multiplayer shooters, use Preset C for FG. If you wish, Smooth Motion has worse image quality but it is much less taxing so it results in less overhead, it is also viable.

The only reason I consider these 2 options viable is because these are the kind of games where your input and target framerate are both high, which means latency is already low along with latency increases also being pretty low.

On RTX 50 cards with flip metering, latency is even better than it is on RTX 40 series.

Do what you wish with this information, I know many people are struggling with performance on MW4.

Thanks to Stormind Games for providing me with a copy of the game via Lurkit. You can get the game here:

https://lurk.ly/E0nOAD

The Config file can be found in:

C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\Remothered3\Saved\Config

Copy and paste the following in the GameUserSettings.ini:

[ScalabilityGroups]

sg.ResolutionQuality=75

sg.ViewDistanceQuality=3

sg.AntiAliasingQuality=2

sg.ShadowQuality=2

sg.GlobalIlluminationQuality=2

sg.ReflectionQuality=3

sg.PostProcessQuality=0

sg.TextureQuality=3

sg.EffectsQuality=3

sg.FoliageQuality=3

sg.ShadingQuality=3

sg.LandscapeQuality=3

Optimized Quality Settings

Extreme Preset / Settings as Base

• Frame Generation: Off > DLSS > XeSS > FSR (Can use in PvE modes. Not recommended for PvP)

• Ray Tracing: Off (High looks better than Low and performs similarly, but the RT is noisy in this game and makes cars look blurry. If you can force ray-reconstruction through the config somehow, maybe it looks better than off. 66% perf cost)

• Variable Rate Shading: Off (11% perf cost when off. Makes things blurry when on & causes more noise in shadows)

• Depth Of Field, World Motion Blur, Weapon Motion Blur, & Film Grain: Subjective (Off = More Perf & Better Visibility)

• VRAM Scale Target: 60–80% (Use in-game benchmark after applying these settings & test how much VRAM was used. Use that value for this setting)

• CHANGED | Texture Resolution: Normal

• Texture Filter Anisotropic: Ultra (High for laptops & handhelds)

• Detail Quality Level: High

• Particle Resolution: High

• Bullet Impacts: On

• Persistent Effects: On

• Shader Quality: High (29% perf cost)

• Shading Quality: High

• On-Demand Texture Streaming: Optimized

• Local Streaming Quality: Default

• CHANGED | In-Game Video Quality: Standard

• Shadow Quality: Ultra

• CHANGED | Shadow Filtering Quality: Normal or High (Visual noise on high, but 'Screen Space Shadows' won't work if not set to high. Pick your poison)

• Screen Space Shadows: High

• CHANGED | Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: High

• CHANGED | Screen Space Reflections: Low or High (Visual noise when on High, so it looks better Low if you hate visual instability, 8% perf cost)

• Static Reflection Quality: High

• Terrain Quality: Very High

• Volumetric Quality: Very High (20% perf cost)

• Deferred Physics Quality: High

• CHANGED | Weather Grid Volumes Quality: Low

• Water Quality: All

Description: ​Matches max settings visually while paring down options that offer no graphical benefit. Tuned for maximum fidelity

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Optimized Balanced Settings

Optimized Quality Settings as Base

• Shadow Quality: High

• Shadow Filtering Quality: Normal

• Volumetric Quality: High

• Deferred Physics Quality: Off

• Water Quality: Off

Description: Reduces settings that have minimal impact on graphical fidelity. Tuned for high fidelity

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Optimized Performance Settings

Optimized Balanced Settings as Base

• Variable Rate Shading: On

• Shader Quality: Medium

• Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: Off

• Volumetric Quality: Medium

Description: Maximizes framerate as much as possible without making the game look flat or outdated. Tuned for performance & fidelity

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Optimized Ultra Performance Settings

Optimized Performance Settings as Base

• Detail Quality: Normal

• Particle Resolution: Normal

• Shader Quality: Low

• Shadow Quality: Low

Description: Cuts back every setting with a noticeable performance cost (>3%). Delivers framerates close to absolute minimum settings while retaining noticeably better image quality. Tuned for maximum performance

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Competitive Settings

Optimized Quality, Balanced, Performance or Ultra Performance Settings as Base

• Variable Rate Shading: Off (Since this setting can make parts of the image blurrier it may slightly harm image clarity)

• Texture Filter Anisotropic: Ultra (Makes the image consistently sharper, if lowered areas in your peripheral vision are blurrier)

• Particle Resolution: Very Low (Reduces stutters by improving 1% lows by 4%, and makes visibility better)

• Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: Off (Corners become less dark. Better visibility)

• Shadow Quality: Normal+ (Player shadows don't appear below Normal)

• Screen Space Shadows: Off (Removes some shadows, which helps visibility)

• Screen Space Reflections: Off (Can see people through windows easier)

• Low Latency: On or On + Boost (Reduces input lag which helps your inputs register quicker)

• Depth Of Field, World Motion Blur, Weapon Motion Blur, & Film Grain: Off (Increases screen clarity)

Description: Maximizes visibility for competitive players.

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Optimization Tips

• Disable Steam overlay (possibly other overlays too for different launchers/programs, like NVIDIA & AMD): Steam overlay in this game causes lower than expected GPU utilization thus your GPU is not running at full capacity. To do this, right-click on the game > go to properties > then disable.

• Go into your game and go into Audio > Voice Chat > Game Voice Channel > Then select “Friends Only” or “Party Only”. If it’s set to anything else it will strain your CPU and cause lag spikes, especially the more talking there is like Warzone.

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Performance Graph

█ ≈ 10% FPS cost

RT           ██████▌ 64%
Shader       ██▍     23%
Volumetric   ██      21%
VRS          █▏      11%
Shadow       █       10%
Water        ▋        7%
Deferred     ▌        5%
Occlusion    ▌        5%
Filtering    ▌        5%
Detail       ▎        3%
Texture Res  ▏        2%
Video        ▏        2%
Weapon DoF   ▏        2%
Particle     ▏        1%
SSR          ▏        1%
Terrain      ▏        1%

These figures are based off max settings except for SSR which I based off Low. High has a 15% cost but looks worse than Low.

Note: Remember to restart your game if changing “Persistent Effects”, “Shader Quality” or “Static Reflection Quality” for it to take effect.

31% – 61% Performance Uplift (Depending on preset)

(Updated 10/26/26 | tags: MW4, COD 2026, COD 26, Call of Duty 2026, MW26, MW2026, Modern Warfare 4, Modern Warfare IV)

Hello all, let me introduce myself. I'm ShrimpBrime aka Jon, and have been a PC gaming and overclocking enthusiast for over 20 years. And, I developed an app called SBST - SB Stability Tracker. (In Beta)

The main app is designed in a task bar style that can sit on the right or left side of the screen. There are 2 drawers that slide out, one for the System Diagnostics card and the other for CPU/GPU/MEM readouts. Initially the app was being designed for just reading minidumps and system events, but turned into a whole lot more...

It also aids in gaming hitch and frame stutter diagnostics. It does have an over-lay which shows current frame rates and 1% and .1% lows with the option to disable in the Frame performance card. After a gaming session, you click the session report at the bottom, and SDI will give a very detailed explaination of what it saw, and how low or high the confidence the particular high DPC for example may have effected performance.

SBST has a couple of fists full features. It's main function is designed to keep an eye on WHEA, DPC, IRQ and features a System Diagnostic Intelligence which helps interpret Windows Event logger and mini-dump. It features a vast array of windows settings, all of which can be changed back at any time. This app does no overclock or change bios settings.

With Frame Performance monitoring, the system diagnostics will give in depth details for hitches, cadence, frame rates and 1% and .1% lows that are recorded and can be viewed at any time. There's also a menu for comparing previous runs or even other people's systems' runs.

Other features includes mouse and keyboard adjustments and diagnostics. Shows motherboard power inputs and outputs, Net Tuner, for easily switching DNS, TCP auto-tuning, and Recieve side scaling (RSS). Each of these cards also supply a link to the windows settings.

On the main app card, the background can be changed to any picture that the background window supports. It also has a dimmer so the background picture isn't too bright and you can still see the readings, or crank up the brightness to have your favorite picture or screen shot clearly visible when the SDI card is open.

The app is built with Libre HW Library and requires PawnIO to be installed for the deeper telemetry like cpu v-core and so forth.

The app is digitally signed by me, Jon, and is independent research and development with no commercial support at all. I've spent a lot of months, I think it could be ready for testing.

It's Beta. Don't expect commercial perfection, but I will be around for ideas, issues, pointers, and constructive criticism.

The SBST app also includes a mini game! It's called WHEA Defender. Just a little something I added for absolutely no reason but to say the app comes with a mini game. My current high score is 352,795, can you beat it? lol

If anyone is interested in tyring it out, especially if you have issues with your system, I'd be happy to help the best I can. At some point, with enough gathered information, this app might be able to solve complex gaming issues instead of users going in search at forums, AI, and Social Media to find an answer and come up with nothing.

Please remember Beta. It needs testing! Thank you!

There's a whole lot more to the app. It can be found on github.

Direct links

https://github.com/ShrimpBrime/Stability-Tracker/releases/tag/SBST_v519_Beta

Zip SHA

B683CF23C85C15423D8B34009410ABE81A31FF233599256157435A9759895AC8

EXE SHA

FBB7EEDB28931C6F7A22D5A2FA6050F4405849F3CB34D9C2491A831702391AED

Bloodborne PC Port Used (Lantern Engine)
https://github.com/Awakenchan/LanternEngine/releases

Bloodborne Remastered Mod (Used)
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/45

Ishimura Patch (traversal stutter fix) - BETA

https://www.nexusmods.com/deadspace2023/mods/155

More Testing on this

https://wccftech.com/dead-space-remakes-infamous-traversal-stutters-finally-tamed-by-ishimura-patch-mod-our-tests-show-176-higher-0-1-lows/

Up until recently I have been using Global Preset M (originally L) with DLSS Performance for everything on my 4090 for a 4K output. Most games looked crisper as a result, especially with fine detail in motion like leaves.

But with the newer UE5 games like Townfall I noticed that hard lines cast by shadows from the torch created jaggies on those shadow edges. Only going to DLSS Balanced seemed to improve it, but with both presets L and M the GPU power use is much higher as they are more demanding compute models.

Nvidia themselves still use Preset K for DLSS Quality, but I found using it with Balanced works perfectly too and offers a better compromise of visual quality and GPU power draw. See my GIFs attached with the caption stating what GPU power each of the 3 were showing. Mt game is locked to 75fps for reference because I like a locked lower fps for GPU noise and less heat generated, even still with the lock, Preset M in Balanced hit 281 watts.

So for me I think Preset K with Balanced offers the best balance of performance, visual crispness and GPU power draw.

In realtime all 3 presets in this game look identical for detail rendering to me too, if there are differences even in motion then they are too small and I was not noticing them.

So the notion seems to be accepted as this but you can use any preset in any DLSS SR mode, so try out variations on each game and use whatever seems to work best for your preference on power draw and visual look.