Googy Shaders is built to illuminate your world while running smoothly on budget computers and potato hardware. It keeps performance fast by using a player contact shadow, smooth ambient occlusion, and sky reflections instead of expensive full-scene shadow maps. Pairing the pack with sensible vanilla video settings helps preserve that speed.
Tuning Vanilla Video Settings
1. Press Esc, open Options, and select Video Settings.
2. Lower your Render Distance and Simulation Distance sliders until chunk loading feels responsive while walking or sprinting.
3. Turn VSync off if you notice input delay, and set your Max Framerate slider slightly above your monitor's refresh rate or to a steady cap to stop sudden frame spikes.
4. Set Biome Blend to a modest range so moving across forests with swaying per-leaf foliage stays smooth.
Comparing Vanilla vs. Shader Performance
Press F3 in your world to watch your live frame rate while looking across an ocean or dense forest. In Iris, you can also toggle shaders off and back on inside the Shader Packs screen to see how little overhead Googy Shaders adds compared to plain vanilla rendering.