Balancing Vanilla Settings with the Shader
Procedural_Magic_UHD Shaders is designed to run smoothly on low-end hardware, older setups, and potato PCs without slowing down your frame rates. If you still notice stutters, the bottleneck is usually vanilla chunk rendering rather than the shader itself.
1. Press Esc, select Options, and open Video Settings.
2. Lower your Render Distance and Simulation Distance sliders until chunk loading feels responsive on your machine.
3. Turn down heavy vanilla options like Biome Blend or Entity Shadows if you play on very old hardware, leaving the shader active so you still keep the bright colors and clear visuals.
Testing Frame Rate Stability
After adjusting your vanilla settings, test your performance in areas that use all of the shader's visual features at once:
1. Walk into an area with dense tree leaves, patches of grass, and visible water surfaces so all smooth wavy animations are active on screen.
2. Press F3 to open the debug overlay and watch your frame rate counter in the top-left corner while looking around.
3. Confirm that your frame rates stay steady as you move between bright open landscapes and shaded forests.