Catnip Shaders is built around a medium performance profile designed for everyday survival play rather than heavy cinematic rendering. If your frame rate still dips in dense areas, adjusting a few client video settings alongside the shader pack will smooth out performance without sacrificing its clean lighting.
Adjusting Vanilla Distance Settings
Real-time shadows beneath blocks, trees, and mobs require the game to calculate geometry across loaded chunks. Lowering heavy distance sliders gives the biggest speed boost:
1. Open Options, go to Video Settings, and lower Simulation Distance first so distant mobs stop updating.
2. Reduce Render Distance by a few chunks until your frame rate stabilizes in forests or large bases.
3. If your shader loader provides a separate Shadow Distance slider, bring it down slightly so distant landscapes rely on ambient lighting while nearby builds keep crisp shadows.
Tuning Shader Pack Options
1. Open Video Settings and enter the Shader Packs screen.
2. Open the shader pack settings or configuration menu if available in your loader.
3. Look for preset profiles or shadow resolution controls and step them down one notch while keeping real-time shadows enabled.
Because the pack keeps vanilla colors intact, lowering secondary shadow range rarely creates harsh visual pop-in across outdoor landscapes.