Minecraft Best Minecraft Settings for FPS in 1.16.5

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Minecraft is one of the most popular and beloved sandbox video games to have ever existed. It seems like everyone who plays the game just simply adores it. Unfortunately though, not everyone gets to actually enjoy the game with high FPS or smoothness.

You would think that such a simple looking game with relatively plain graphics would be easy to run. But due to the sheer size of the game (and the fact that it has to render and entire 3D world), the game can be extremely taxing on your computer and or devices. This means that when you pair an old or below average computer with the resource intensive Minecraft, you may have difficulties playing due to poor performance and frame rates.

Fortunately enough, there are many ways that you can actually boost performance in Minecraft. One of the best ways to boost performance is by adjusting Minecraft’s own in-game configurations. There are also some other things, but we’ll show you them later in this guide. Let’s get started by showing you how to best optimize your settings for maximum performance.

Optimizing your settings is one of the best ways to increase performance – plus it’s really easy to do! First, you’ll need to load into Minecraft, and then navigate to the options menu. Once you’re in the Minecraft options menu, find and click on the “Video Settings” button to get into the video game settings area. You should now see a screen which looks something like this:

Once you have you the Video Settings menu open, you will want to change some, if not all of these settings to what we have listed in dot points below. This will ultimately help you to maximize Minecraft’s performance and hopefully gain some decent frame rates from it.

Here are the best settings to increase performance in Minecraft:

• Fullscreen Resolution: 1920×1080@144
• Biome Blend: OFF
• Graphics: Fast
• Smooth Lighting: OFF
• Use VSync: OFF
• Minimap Levels: OFF
• Render Distance: 2-8 chunks
• Entity Distance: 50%
• Max Framerate: Unlimited
• Clouds: OFF
• Particles: Minimal
• Entity Shadows: OFF

After you’ve changed all of your settings to what we recommend above, your new Video Settings menu should now look something more like this:

Aside from these settings, you could also try reducing your FOV (Field of View), that may also help to provide with a boost in speed.

Alternative ways to increase FPS

From what we’ve found, optimizing your in-game settings is the best way to increase overall performance in Minecraft, but there are still some other methods that you can use if you’re needing some extra fire power. Let’s get into some of these methods:

Close background programs

An effective way to increase your frames per second is by closing any background programs or applications on your computer. For example: you may have Google Chrome, Firefox, Spotify, or even other games open while you’re playing Minecraft. These other programs can, at times, significantly hurt your frames because of the fact that they also require resources from your computer. To make Minecraft run the absolute fastest possible, you’ll want your computer solely focused on the game, and not dedicating any power to anything else.

Use OptiFine

Another trick that you can do is to install the mod OptiFine. What this mod basically does is it helps better your game performance, allows more customizable settings (which can in turn help to better performance), plus it also gives you a neat feature which allows you to zoom in as if you had binoculars.