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Troubleshooting Missing Effects or Unexpected Lag

If Kiwi Shaders does not appear to change your world's visuals or your game suddenly slows down, checking your shader loader profile and active folders will usually solve the issue.

Fixing Unchanged Vanilla Visuals

Because Kiwi Shaders preserves the classic feel of the base game and maintains the original art style for blocks and mobs, its effect is cleaner and subtler than heavy realism packs. However, if the pixel shader look across the environment is completely absent:

1. Open Options, go to Video Settings, and verify that a Shaders or Shader Packs submenu is present. If it is missing, you launched the plain vanilla client instead of Iris or OptiFine.

2. Open the shader menu and verify that shaders are toggled on and Kiwi Shaders is selected.

3. Confirm that you did not extract the pack into extra nested folders inside shaderpacks, which stops loaders from detecting it.

Stopping Sudden Frame Rate Drops

Kiwi Shaders runs fast on low-end computers without causing heavy lag on its own. If your frame rate drops unexpectedly, check Resource Packs to ensure a demanding texture pack is not exhausting video memory, lower your vanilla Render Distance, and close background applications.