While Minecraft is an ever-expansive and fun game to play in its original variant, a lot more can be added to it by installing mods and resource packs. One of the most effective and useful tools (mods) you can install – whether you want to keep the original flavor or add some uniqueness to your game – is the Optifine mod. Optifine is not a resource pack in itself. It does not change any textures in the game. It is, instead, a tool that allows you to adjust Minecraft to increase performance or visuals to your liking. For instance, it provides new settings in the menus that allow you to more freely adjust rendering distance and other factors that might affect how well your computer can run the game. It also allows you to use various resource packs with custom features. If you use HD resource packs and have seen major frame rate drops, see serious lag spikes in your system, or otherwise just need an FPS boost, Optifine HD will provide exactly what you are looking for.
Optifine can be used in both single player games and multiplayer servers. Be warned, though, Optifine HD only works in multiplayer games if the server’s host also has Optifine HD installed on the server. If this is not the case, Optifine will be disabled and you will not be able to use it. Another warning that comes with this is that some of the steps you can take to increase your frame rate will also make Minecraft less visually appealing to look at. You can disable clouds, the sky, stars, fog, and a number of other functions that make the game more visually appealing. All in all, Optifine HD is probably the best way to take more complete control of your Minecraft experience. You can adjust how textured and detailed everything is, from bare bones to top of the line graphics, based on what your personal computer can handle.
OptiFine HD should be compatible with all of these Minecraft versions: 1.16.4 - 1.16.3 - 1.16.2 - 1.16.1 - 1.16 - 1.15.2 - 1.15.1 - 1.15 - 1.14.4 - 1.14.3 - 1.14.2 - 1.14 - 1.13.2 - 1.13.1 - 1.13 - 1.12.2 - 1.12 - 1.11.2 - 1.11 - 1.10.2 - 1.10 - 1.9.4 - 1.9 - 1.8.9 - 1.8.8 - 1.8.1 - 1.8.6 - 1.8
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How to install Optifine:
- In the download section of this page you will find a link to the official Optifine website. Click this link.
- There you will see many different labels. Make sure to find the right “Minecraft version label” first. – if you are playing Minecraft 1.16.3 find the corresponding label, the same goes for all other Minecraft versions;
- Now that you have found a label with your version of the Minecraft, you will probably see many different Optifine versions and editions under that label. Find the latest version available and click on the “download” or “mirror” text link next to it. – we strongly recommend that you always choose the “OptiFine HD Ultra” editions. They usually have the most features;
- You will be redirected to a page with a certain number of ads on it and a direct download link in the middle between all these ads. Click this link.
- Right-click the newly downloaded Optifine installer file, select “Open With”, and then click “Java (TM) Platform SE binary”.
- A small installer window will appear, just click “Install”. After a while, the message “OptiFine is successfully installed” will pop up. – make sure you have the latest version of Minecraft installed, otherwise you will not be able to successfully install Optifine;
- Start up Minecraft launcher and click the little up arrow next to the green “PLAY” button. From there you want to find a version titled “Optifine”. Click this version.
- Click that green “PLAY” button!
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- None of the resource packs, shader mods or tools you see on this website are hosted on our servers. We use download links (including direct download links) provided by official authors. Therefore, they are completely safe and secure.
- We never modify or edit resource packs in any way.
- Although we are using the official download links, they may stop working after new updates are released. In this case, you can always use the source links from the "Official Links" section until we update the download links. And yes, we update links regularly and manually for every resource pack you see on this site.
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Download links:
Download OptiFine HD from Official Website – you will be redirected to the official Optifine website where you will find all download links for versions from 1.7.x to the current minecraft version.
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30 comments
Dylan Anderson
it always crashes my game
AnimixYT
that sucks, i cant even install it :/
Augustas
you have a bad pc/laptop
kanker123
i can download the file and i have java but when i want to open the file in java it opens and auto closes
Superkrat
I got the the point of installing java to it, but it give me the message
“Unable to install Java
There are errors in the following switches:
C:\users\name\Downloads\OptiFine_1.16.5_HD_U_G6.jar
Check that commands are valid and try again.” and I have no clue what to do with that, or how to fix it.
Kass
I am having the same problem.
Vivisoop
Same
serenaaa
does it work with mac?
ElectroCreep
yes it does
Dartleis
I’m on iMac
p
is this available for mac or is it PC only?
Helper
It works for both.
Z
It doesnt work for mac because it says the file type isnt supported
corruptedCrossbow
I love optifine
S
I have Java edition, but when I try to download this it doesn’t work. When I try to open in it makes me open it in the microsoft store, and instead of opening the actual thing, it just opens a page with a search for the word “jar”. I do not understand what I am doing wrong.
Admin (resourcepack.net)
You need to install Java.
HumbledBeanz
I have the same problem but then if I try to open optimise with Minecraft java (I already have it) it physically won’t show up and when I type it in it’s just says “catastrophic error” :(
T
Does this work for PE?
macallan green
nope 😕sorry
Gale
Having some trouble– I try to open Optifine with Java and it opens a window just to immediately close it. It’s not there when I open minecraft. Any solutions? I am doing my Open With from the java application within the minecraft folder
AA
Thanks for the mod. You could have added that a noob NEEDS JAVA or something like that. You didn’t even include that in the description (you should).
Johanna
what do i do if it says ”innstallation has been modified and might not support the latest player safety features.”
When I go on any server there is no changes.
xSeungyeon
I dont see a arrow next to the play button..
logan
me either
Fratooty
what do we open the file with?
bLuE cHeEsE
If you have problems downloading optifine i had the same problems aswell make sure to dowload java_platform just type in java minecraft itll come up. after you set up the program simply just redownload optifine and say “open with” and java should pop up when you press java it will automatically insall optifine into the game and when you open the launcher it should be there! i hope this helps you!
YaBoiNick
how do you find it when i type java minecraft it just says how to get minecraft java edition
Darkstan.
How come Charged Creepers look weird with the effect around them?
Fajar_Awesome
Nah Its Not Resource Pack
ιlιlι OutanmaX™ ιlιlι
Yes, it is not. It is a tool/mod required by many resource packs.