Do Texture Packs Actually Boost FPS? 

What Texture Pack Resolution do you use?

OpenGL and java programmer here, texture packs do have an effect on the frame rendering time, depending on the resolution scale it can either put more work or less on the render engine. This value is completely dependant on the CPU you have (due to Minecraft rendering fun) and the texture pack you're using. One more thing im yet to test on is the way Minecraft uploads their textures to the buffer, a lot of modern engines have a system for completely stale images or an array of the same pixel which greatly improves the frame rate during that scene

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for those wondering, the biggest reason a texture pack could affect your framerate is vram. bigger textures = more vram usage. if your textures are big enough, they could take gigs of it, and if you don't have enough, it'll be placed in work ram or main storage, which, compared to vram, are very slow, thus longer time processing frames, leading directly to worse framerates. unoptimized code affects java edition, too

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As a 60hz laptop player with a horrible cpu, i can agree that a certain pack you use can really change the way how smooth or laggy your game feels. I legit have a specific pack line because others just drop my FPS from 60 to like 30 which is legit unplayable. Keep up the content though love the editing and effort you put into this :)

I don’t usually care about boosting fps, because my monitor can only handle 60 fps and you don’t need more fps than your monitor is made for because you can’t see it, so there’s no point. But great video as always!!

Removing particles is very useful especially when playing with your friends irl. It can't be avoided for them to grief or do some fun stuff which annoys you like doing bs with command block.

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I wonder if one day you would make custom shield textures or custom totems for normal gameplay. That'll be cool

Just came across this video and noticed you used a screenshot of one of my videos in the intro (lol) A factor you didn't mention is recording performance; If you record while using a pack that has minimal textures, it's lighter on your video encoder as it has to do less encoding calculations and it also saves your bitrate as opposed to using a super grainy/detailed pack.

I wanted to add something: Adding a high res pack may or may not affect your FPS, but there are times when the resolution of the pack itself affects the rendering of an object, for example: Item frames. If you put a high res item in an item frame, YES, your FPS WILL DROP! But not because of the texture, polygon count is something to take in count too. 3D items tend to make a lot of lag, when dropped, in hand or in an item frame

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This explained a lot, it depends on everyone's explanation, all I can say is some texture packs can be good and some texture packs can be bad so everyone can use any pack but for better resolution on their own :D

0:52 "low end laptop" man that is a beast, my laptop can't even handle more than 3 chrome tabs with one file explorer window open in the background

Fogless texture packs might help as it removes something settings cannot.

Great vid explaining the fact that fps cant be buffed. I use 8x and its probably just as laggy as one of my 32x texture packs i use

Yo chr7st,question is Yumeno 32x out? 5 months ago in your hive RU-vidrs are killing nethergames video. You used that pack and I been looking for it,is it out or no?

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In java, changing certain models to simplify them requires the loading of less intricate faces, so because of that you would technically get more fps (depending on the blocks you are surrounded by.)

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The reason that texture packs below 16x seem to have no impact on FPS is because basically no system is going to be bottlenecked by the video memory at that point. In order to run higher resolution textures, video memory (VRAM) is the main demand. With minecraft having such low resolution textures by default, there are no VRAM limitations at that point. Going lower won't affect FPS for this reason. The only time I can see it having an effect is if you have a good PC but somehow limit your VRAM to a very low value.

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hey, nice video. btw what client are you using?

Chr7st can u tell me which is the best texture pack to use which doesn't decrease fps. Well I am your one of the biggest fan.

Thank you so mcuh for making a video about this!! By any chance do you know the name of the pack in the thumbnail (the 16x first image)

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what is the server ip that you are playing

Edit: This comes from my understanding of Java Edition, for all I know Bedrock Edition is likely handling this completely differently, it's also possible Java Edition has a Minimum Limit for the Atlas Size which is possibly why this issue may not matter if it also occurs on Java Edition. Original Comment: The texture resolution thing kinda depends, lemme explain. To add some credence to what I'm about to say, I'm not much of a minecraft player these days, I do a lot of work related to World Optimization in ChilloutVR (not affiliated), a VR Game with 100% User-Generated Content and as such if I'm trying to cram 40-50 people into a single place with their own fully custom 3D models and textures (Avatars) I need to try and ensure the World they exist in isn't also eating up resources (mostly Graphics Resources) those Avatars could be using instead. I've spent a good chunk of time chipping away at whatever I can to add breathing room for those Avatars. Graphics Cards have what's called Video RAM (Memory for the GPU), when this memory is full, it has to start bleeding into regular RAM which takes the GPU much, much longer than if it were pulling from VRAM directly. A lot of younger people have laptops which don't have dedicated Graphics Chips, instead they have GPUs built into the Processor, these kinds of GPUs don't have a lot of VRAM. When Minecraft loads a Resource Pack it takes EVERY texture and generates what's called a "Texture Atlas", a massive texture that contains every texture in the game. My theory is that this is sized dynamically based on the texture resolutions being used. Smaller textures, smaller atlas, fits more nicely into their very limited VRAM. Basically, it depends, if your GPU doesn't have a lot of VRAM, it might help, but modern Graphics Hardware in Desktop Computers with many Gigabytes of VRAM do not benefit at all from this unless you're running a super-high-resolution Resource Pack, those eat VRAM too. If you have a laptop that's struggling to run minecraft, maybe it'll help.

This is a pixelated game, if you want to pixelize it more it will do such little change in fps you cant notice it

Really appreciate this video, it just gave me a straight direction.

It's the same language as, "piercing through defense and protection stat means you do moar damage." When the wording should be, Piercing stats in damage calculations only means you do closer to the damage excluding the protection and defense stats.

Great vid as always!! Keep it up!

The biggest this that a pack can do is just pulling up the file every time it want to texture something. And when that file gets big then more processing power is required.

It does. when i had low pc i had a lot more fps with rp. It depends how much pixels is there. It can boost a lot.

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Very few know how GPUs use textures… try this.. replace a gap with a really high res texture… notice that the first time you use the gap Minecraft sends the texture to the gpu and there can be a noticeable lag, but every time after that.. no lag. That’s cos the cpu loading the texture and sending it to the gpu is the bit that is expensive and Minecraft (or any game) can’t use all the cpu resources for the game alone cos some is being spent loading and sending the texture… but after that the GPU caches the texture. It’s not until it needs to free up gpu ram that it gets removed. So high res textures can affect frames but only on initial load, not thereafter

I saw your making a texture pack in 24 hours and i wanted to know what you use to do the art aspect of making packs because Ive been wanting to start making my own packs and i haven't found a good application to make the actual textures and wanted to know what you use.

since now i finally have an ACTUAL WORKING pc, fps is not a problem for me anymore, so yeah, not caring much about lagging anymore. anyway, im probably going to change my mind since u read my comment and talked about it lol. thanks for clearing my doubts! now im smart like a leaf

none of my packs do this but i have this pack called nitro purple and it crashes my game every time i use it its not fps but it crashes any ideas to fix?

I have all my settings to minimum and is still getting 70 fps max and usually 30-50 fps during PVP. Is there any extensions or smth that can improve it? (I'm playing Resent client on chrome cuz I am on a school laptop and I cant download sodium or mods like that)

2:23 you gotta teach me how to do that, it's insane

The reason you experience FPS drops with higher resolution packs is due to the way items are rendered in your hand. The game has to draw new faces for each edge pixel of the item you're holding, and with higher resolution packs, this can easily balloon into thousands of faces being rendered for something as simple as a sword or bow. The same is true when increasing your render distance. The game has to draw all of the chunks in your view, and when you turn up your render distance, you exponentially increase the amount of faces that the game has to render. In general, minecraft's culling is not very exhaustive. The game will render cave systems you can't see, chunks that are behind you, block faces behind walls, particles through walls, and the list goes on. If you solely increase the resolution of block textures, you won't notice a difference. If you increase the resolution of item textures, your framerate will suffer.

The same way increasing textures to x64 or x128 decreasing them to x1 does actually somewhat help out because loaded TXs will take 16x less ram (take this with a grain of salt) Which is why in the before and after you kept showing in this video it was jumping from 188 to 288

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i have tested smth like this before, the font is impacting the game performance very much, for example on my pc, 32x font can reduce the fps from 110fps(16x font) to around 50fps, and force unicode font actually help the game, open that on boost fps from 110 fps to around 135 fps (ig this is bc game doesnt have to do a if on every text like alphabets it use minecraft font but if ur typing smth like chinese or korean it need to switch to unicode font, and turn force unicode font on remove the if statement ig)

3:35 what is this minigame and where can I find it

I use a high quality texture pack in my Android Minecraft Bedrock. It does not lag unless there are sooo many mob spawning on a chunck. So, to fix this, I use 4 chuck on my settings to lower the lag. Well, it works well as expected. My device is a low version of android. So, it's a miracle that this can run Minecraft very well with texture packs.

yeah i always thought those packs that claim to 'boost' fps were pretty useless (only boosting about 10fps). As someone whos fps never really drops below 300, 10 more fps isn't even a difference. However, packs with a really HD sky do seem to give less frames than usual, at least for my pc. For anyone who has a really low end device definitely turn ur antiailiasing down to the lowest but if you have a good pc turning it down will decrease ur fps for some reason. Anyway great video chr7st!

they can increase bit rate and decrease ram usage. they can also be more compatible for low color displays.

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ok then why does my 4096 x 4096 ultra hd texture packs crash my game

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one thing you forgot to take in to account is the persons PC specs. If the person doesnt have a dedicated gpu they will likely use their RAM is Vram which is much slower and since textures are stored in vram they will be stored in the RAM instead of VRAM and the issue is RAM is slower than VRAM so there will be a slow down if the person doesnt not have a dedicated gpu so lower resolution textures packs makes the game run faster.

Greatly explained, I just use 16x or 32x, I don't use higher resolution not because of the fps decrease. (my PC can handle it) Idk when more pixels are added my eyes feel to hurt don't know why also just a question how much minecoins would be the market place pack?(you don't really have to answer)

Well 1x1 pixel packs can be useful however you will still need a proper specs and hz(hertz) to keep up with the fps ur getting. Id recommend turning off ur vsync which is the one that prohibits you from getting higher fps which by any means you're gonna be only getting 1 - 60 fps which is the maximum with vsync on but if you turned off your vsync you can have a high fps as possible but if your hz(hertz) is like 60hz or 75hz and u get like 120 fps, you will be having screen tears which affects gameplays thats why most individual gamers would recommend to turn on your vsync.

I imagine there's no way other than modding to increase the FPS on any PC made within the last 10 years. Though, I remember my old 2007 laptop... It could run Portal just fine at 60 fps, but Minecraft barely slogged along at 13-20 fps back then. I tried many different texture packs to try to make it more playable, but nothing made a particularly good impact... so I thought, screw it, let's just throw in the hardest pack I can find and see what it's like! And to my surprise, when I used 128x and 256x, my framerate actually increased MASSIVELY! I didn't change my render distance, and I didn't have optifine (I didn't know it existed until shortly after that experiment), but for some reason, using a higher resolution pack made my game run almost thrice as fast.

Im not an expert but the samurai 16x pack really boosted my fps. My pc broke down and lost all its data and im too lazy to download all that so im currently playing on my laptop . my laptop is low end but the samurai 16x really boosted my fps from 30-40 to 50-60. But u can get good fps by lowering the in-game setting too . Now im playing with 120 fps with ingame setting and the texture pack

i think it depends on the harware too, on an new pc it doesnt have much difference, but on older Hardwar it does, i had a low-end laptop gpu from 16 years ago and it did make a diffrence. i went from 29 up to 50 FPS. on 8 chunks. Im talking about Java

16x normally but I did 32x once because of Jonah’s fabulous 50k pack

bedrock runs better than java because it uses c++ which is the fastest language in the world. its why the max render distance is way higher on bedrock and why high render distances dont nearly affect performance as much as java does

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less pixels to render == more fps, not sure about minecraft tho but i've messed around with pixel games and image rendering enough to experience this

Which app do you use to make texture packs?🙂

Bro can I use your texture pack in. My Minecraft Pls give the pack here

bro i was shocked when i saw that bare bones texture pack actually reduced my fps, i didn't need it to increase performance i just liked the look of it but i didn't expect it to actually reduce performance at all.

Before i know you , i maked bad Texturpacks but now i make very good TPs

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Hi cant wait for the marketplace texture pack how far away do u recon it will be

Thanks for the video, it's was well explained

from my experience, it doesn't really affect fps unless if im using high res pack like 512x, but i can confirm that a texture pack with disabled particles could potentially reduce frame drops in scenarios.

in minecrafat 1.5.2, about 2014, i had a texture pack with clean blocks, with that i was able to play 30/32fps, without that, it was about 25. at that time, this was a huge diferençe, 30fps, up to 32, was smooth as hell i dont know what to say, that just works and i was happy

what pack you using in the first game? it looks so cool

I can say for sure that some texture packs can help when on a potato of a android.

Imagine doing FPS comparison with v-sync on

I remember when texture pack ""clients"" claimed that they boosted fps and some even got away with it

Well I spent hours on a barebone texture pack lol😂

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It does for me bc my pc ain't good and I added a texture pack coz I never learm and it made my pc a bit better!

a good example of affected fps could be shader packs or whatever umsoea is

1x1 texture pack can’t boost my fps

back in the days of my toshiba sattelite gaming with an i3 2230m and intel graphics, 4gb of ram, ive had quite the experience with packs, for some reason, i can swear to this day, that faithful 32x and 64x made my framerates better than default on that laptop. so ive spent a long time trying to figure it out. i am VERY sure that its the way the images are rendered and compressed. so with my packs i make sure that i keep the file size as minimal as possible, i'll do some more testing into this. but i would really like to hear your opinion on my take here

What texture pack did u used in that ctf clip?

The only thing that truly affect FPS is enchantment glint, do the test yourself, fill up your inventory with tons of potions at normal res, you'll get an fps drop when you open the inventory but that fine, now do the same thing with a much higher res, your fps will get annihilated, no idea what's the case but that something i noticed years ago, so i always keep a low res potions overlay just in case i load a pack with a very high res ones.

Ty-el ui pack actually does improve fps, i already cheched it. I always play on my phone where it can get really lag with addons and that resource pack just helps a lot.

I have a weird situation. For some reason I get more FPS using 256/512x packs than 16/32x packs. It is indeed silicon sorcery.

what server are you playing on?

i think it depends on some things like if you have a lot of different colors, it might lower the fps but i might be wrong, it might just be that my eyes die because of some colors

What fov do u use plz tell me

i have a question i recently made a 26x texture pack. it lags a lot i wonder ehere i went wrong

Name of the texture pack you are using in the gameplay?

you literally said that 512x512 lowers fps, and i can definitely confirm that, I can't even play that game with that type of texture pack

Everyone wait for Realise Yumeno 32x texture pack please Christ please release this pack

i have low pc and when i have 32x32 i have 15 fps on mu computer (with optifine configuration) but when i have 4x4 txt i have 120 fps without optifine configuration when ihave 4x4 txt and optifine configuration i have 180 fps on 1.8.9 on "Minecraft: java edition" you speaking about this on c++ engine minecraft, Maybe you have right but i have java edition and idk how this work on c++ minecraft (c++ minecraft it's "minecraft: Bedrock edition")

for java 32-64-128x packs etc etc can and WILL impact your fps if you dont have a good cpu/gpu

your fury 16x pack makes my game smoother tbh