How to Optimize Performance While Using BGRD Shaders

Balancing Fog and Render Distance

BGRD Shaders adds atmospheric fog and animated foliage, which can increase the workload on lower-end devices when combined with heavy vanilla graphics settings. Because the pack naturally obscures distant terrain with fog, you can lower your chunk distance without losing visual quality.

1. Open Settings from the pause menu and select the Video tab.

2. Scroll down to the Render Distance slider.

3. Lower the slider by a few chunks at a time until your frame rate stabilizes. The pack's atmospheric fog will cover the shortened horizon border, keeping the scenery looking natural.

Reducing Foliage Overhead

In dense forest or plains biomes, the animated grass and animated foliage in BGRD 2.0 require constant rendering updates across every visible leaf and grass block.

1. Stay in the Video settings menu and locate the Fancy Leaves toggle.

2. Turn Fancy Leaves off if you experience stuttering in heavily wooded areas, then return to the game to check if the waving foliage still renders smoothly.

3. Disable extra screen overlays like View Bobbing or reduce Anti-Aliasing in the same menu to free up graphics memory for the transparent water and realistic sky.