Faster on Vulkan

Faster on Vulkan

Makes Minecraft an order of magnitude faster, mainly by using a whole new, Vulkan-based rendering engine.

How it works:

The core of this modpack, VulkanMod, rewrites Minecraft’s renderer using the Vulkan graphics API instead of the classic _(now discontinued)_ OpenGL, unlike most mods, such as Sodium and OptiFine.

Vulkan, being significantly faster and more modern, makes it a much better choice than OpenGL for the _vast_ majority of computers running Minecraft nowadays.

You should use this if:

1. You have a Vulkan-compatible device _(must have Vulkan 1.2+)_
2. You don’t see acceptable performance using Sodium and other mods
3. You don’t mind sacrificing mod, shader, and resource pack compatibility

• Mods like EMF, ETF and Nvidium won’t work
• VulkanMod does not support Optifine/Iris shaders
• Resource packs may need incompatible mods to work properly _(e.g. Fresh Animations uses EMF/ETF)_

Recommendations:

Use Java 25 _(Eclipse Temurin is recommended)_ with these flags for the best performance on most devices:

-XX:+UseZGC -XX:+UseCompactObjectHeaders

This can be done quite easily with Prism Launcher

Known issues:

• Resolution and refresh rate is sometimes reported as -1 on non-apple devices
• Just defaults to native resolution
• Unlikely support for Windows and Linux on ARM