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Keeping High Frame Rates and Balanced Sky Brightness

Emperial Shaders is built to deliver high frame rates across both low-end and high-end computers while keeping bright daytime skies comfortable to look at. If you still notice stutters on older hardware or want to adjust how the pack behaves, tune your settings step by step.

Keeping Frame Rates Smooth on Low-End Setups

1. Open Options and go to Video Settings while in your world.

2. Lower your vanilla Render Distance and Simulation Distance slightly first, as drawing fewer distant chunks gives the biggest boost while block shadows and water reflections are active.

3. Check your Max Framerate and VSync settings in Video Settings to make sure your game is not capping frames unexpectedly or stuttering from screen tearing.

4. Reduce Biome Blend and Entity Distance to moderate levels if you experience brief frame drops while moving quickly across sunny plains or oceans.

Adjusting or Resetting Shader Pack Options

1. Navigate to Options > Video Settings and open your Shaders or Shader Packs menu.

2. Open the pack's settings menu to view any visual toggles exposed by the shader.

3. If changing an option makes caves hard to see or causes daytime skies to glare again, click the reset button in that menu to restore Emperial Shaders' default balanced lighting.