OptiFine Alternatives for Minecraft Forge

OptiFine is not available for Minecraft Forge but there are a few alternatives with similar functionality. The best Minecraft Forge alternative is Sodium, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to OptiFine and four of them are available for Minecraft Forge so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Minecraft Forge alternatives to OptiFine are VanillaFix, BetterFps and Less Lag.

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    Sodium

     11 likes

    Sodium is a free and open-source rendering engine replacement for the Minecraft client that greatly improves frame rates, reduces micro-stutter, and fixes graphical issues in Minecraft.

    16 Sodium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minecraft Fabric
    • Minecraft
    • Minecraft Forge
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    Comments about Sodium as an Alternative to OptiFine
    Atlas19
    Positive
    0

    Sodium is objectively the best FPS boosting mod out there. From experience, it triples my FPS, and it is said to tenfold on some devices. It does not have shader support however you can use IRIS for that which is just shader supporting Sodium at its basic.

    Oktay Mercan
    Positive
    0

    Sodium required fabric API and not support optifine shaderpacks but incrase your FPS dramaticly, reduce micro-stutter, minecraft chunks load very fast.

    (Not: Fabric API is modular and lightweight alternative to minecraft forge)

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Much better boost than optifine.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Sodium is Free and Open SourceOptiFine is Free and Proprietary
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    VanillaFix

     2 likes

    VanillaFix is a mod that improves performance and fixes bugs and annoyances in vanilla Minecraft. Tripling FPS is common, try it for yourself if you don't believe it! Also, with VanillaFix installed, Minecraft will no longer fully crash, but rather kick you out to the main...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Minecraft Forge
    • Minecraft
     
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    BetterFps

     1 like

    BetterFps is a client side minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements. It tries to be compatible with other mods.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minecraft Forge
     
  5. Less Lag icon

    Less Lag

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    A simple mod to remove texture animations to increase FPS for larger mod packs and low end systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minecraft Forge
    • Minecraft
     
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