Lagging in the Nether
MDouglas345 opened this issue ยท 3 comments
I have been experiencing insane lag in the nether and looked through my mods individually to find the culprit, and unfortunately, this lovely mod is it. I believe since the Nether is mostly liquid and since there are quite a number of entities that are in that lava there are constant splashes which causes this lag. Im no minecraft mod creator but I would think that if you could use instancing for the mesh or have a LOD where if an entity is too far then dont make it splash might help.
Again, Im no minecraft mod developer but can see where there can be some optimization routes to take.
No, Sollace is one of the contributors. If you're running Effective 1.1 then you should have the improvements that were demonstrated in Sollace's unofficial build before those changes were merged into the main branch.
I just upgraded to 1.1 and ran a test in the nether. Nearby magma cubes swimming in lava can still drag down FPS but 1.1 still offers a huge performance improvement over 1.0.
Something that might help (aside from any further optimizations to Effective that may or may not be possible?) is adding the Entity Culling mod to your client if you don't already have it. This will prevent magma cubes (and other entities) you can't actually see from being rendered, which should help your FPS. I don't know whether or not it would also cull Effective's effects when you can't actually see them.
(I am not a developer, just a server op trying to be helpful.)
What version of the mod are you running? Effective 1.1 included many optimizations, performance fixes, and compatibility fixes that may address the problems you're experiencing.
I've been running Sollace's unofficial 1.1.0 version with some of the fixes that were proposed at the time and that greatly improved performance, especially in the nether. (Now that I'm aware these changes were merged into the main branch and released 6 days ago I'm upgrading to the latest official release.)
Make sure you're on the latest release, and when reporting issues it is helpful to mention what version of the mod you are currently using.