Modded Minecraft Shaders is unplayable :((((

christiansayers · November 6

Hello everyone,

I recently was trying to play on a modded Minecraft server with some friends (not hosted by me). We are playing Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla on Curseforge. When I loaded into the game and joined the server, I have an average of 7fps with 10fps max with shaders on.

I have been allocating 8-10gb of my RAM to the modpack, tried running on all the lowest in-game settings (fast/minimal/off) with the Complementary Shaders pack. When I turn the shaders pack off, I run better and can turn up the other setting and get around 40-60FPS (still less than I would like) all with only using a render distance of 8. I have a few things running in the background like discord, spotify, normally I have wallpaper engine but I tried turning it off which did not help.

I tried updating graphics drivers, I still have 1.4TB of space on my disk, I am really at a loss on where to even start when trying to diagnose the problem or what to do to fix it. If you have any suggestions please let me know. When I got this computer I thought I would have little trouble running most modern games at medium-high settings.

My computer is fairly new so I dont know where to even start about debugging this issue. I have:

Ryzen 7700x CPU

4070TI GPU

B650 MB

32gb DDR5 RAM

2TB NVMe M.2 SSD (only disk I have so game is installed here)

I believe I have 850W PSU and its liquid cooled with multiple case fans in an NZXT H5 Elite ATX Mid Tower Case and I am not getting cooling issues that I am aware of.

I am playing on a 1440p monitor

November 6

Try these:

Check if your HDMI / DP cable is plugged into your GPU
If you have more than one monitor, if one is not plugged into the GPU and you are using that monitor it will use the CPU for rendering graphics.

If that doesn't work, it may be another issue that will need to be addressed.

christiansayers · November 6

31 minutes ago, amillionite said:

Try these:

Check if your HDMI / DP cable is plugged into your GPU

If you have more than one monitor, if one is not plugged into the GPU and you are using that monitor it will use the CPU for rendering graphics.

If that doesn't work, it may be another issue that will need to be addressed.

Oh my lord. I just moved and my girlfriend set up the PC for the first time and she had plugged the DP cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU. Thank you so much for the suggestion!

November 6

2 hours ago, christiansayers said:

Oh my lord. I just moved and my girlfriend set up the PC for the first time and she had plugged the DP cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU. Thank you so much for the suggestion!

Glad I was able to help, its a surprisingly common issue.