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Chazore said:
Ganoncrotch said:

Even just the addition of realistic lighting makes MC look like a completely new game, you say you're running 1440p/60fps but what GPU do you have in that machine? I've got a 1700/980ti or 2600/780ti builds but I haven't modded Minecraft that heavily since I was running my old Core2QuadQ6600/GTX760 I wonder how much I could get away with now with newer builds, been considering getting a 5700xt or two for both my machines, the cost of them is really nice for the power they offer. Still a shame not to see stuff like this coming to the consoles, I love playing Minecraft on the Switch even though it doesn't have the streaming ability of the ps4, would be awesome if the system could handle doing that as you play but I think that would definitely need a pro revision for the Switch.

Love screenshots though, thanks for sharing.... Jealous a bit!

Sporting a 1080ti atm, but back in mid 2015, it was a 980ti. Even back when optifine first came out, I was still getting better performance than without it.

my Current CPU is an i7-6700k (bit old by current standards), and 16gb DDR4 RAM (not of a high frequency though).

I reckon you should grab the latest optifine version and see how much you can get for eprformance first, then try a shader like Sildur's vibrant shaders or Chocapic13's shsders, as both offer various versions of their respective shader packs, each that offer more or less options, depending on which one you choose.

I will say though, that the shader packs I use are not raytraced ones, hence why I'm getting good performance metrics.

Like I said in that article, they MS can absolutely make this happen. They just need to really care to make a few calls and bring some of the modders into their core team at MJ, and make it happen. if a modder can do this sort of thing for years, and even improve upon it, both technologically and performance wise, then so can actual devs, paid to do it. 

Nice nice, the 1080ti is still a king of GPU power unless you're wanting to see 4k/60/ultra but like... most of what I do on my PC is playing smaller titles and the fact that it has an 8/16 core cpu and a 980ti in it just means if I wanna click on a game it will run fine without having to check the box requirements heh. I was mostly considering getting a pair of the 5700xt's just to support AMD's work in cpu/gpu the last couple of years, I really think they should be appreciated more for their moves to make Mid/High end PC components affordable by anyone.

As for the last paragraph you wrote, yeah like... you have people who create mods which look like that as a hobby while also working a full time job and having a life which doesn't focus on them, if you were to remove the stress of the job and give someone money to work 39 hours on those graphical updates and give them the hardware/software backing of MS... you would see some amazing results and not for a whole pile of money I wager... I mean, they could just put out a recruitment drive directed at the MC modding community to basically submit some mods and coding experience for a nice contract working with MS on one of the biggest IP's they own, no one would turn down that prospect even if the money wasn't great.

Maybe it is like you said though, that work they had done will become the core work of Minecraft 2 and they didn't want to make the base MC look better so that fans would see a larger jump going from vanilla MC > MC2, kinda like how Nintendo Canned work on Starwing 2 so that Lylat Wars would look more impressive as a leap from the first game, rather than having those stepping stone upgrades in between big releases. Guess we'll just have to wait and see now..... and download mods for the base game! Appreciate the names of the stuff to check out btw, I've got a very busy week this week... then next week I'm out of the country but should be back by the start of Sept and I might get some time to actually fire up one of my PC's, this is primarily why I would have loved the update on Switch, I'll be traveling nearly 20 hours and my PC wouldn't last 10 minutes on the Switchs little battery :D



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