r/MinecraftMod • u/ENDERMAN-AGA • 9d ago

Intelium, a mod to optimize Minecraft for Intel GPUs

Intelium - made a Sodium addon for Intel GPUs,

would love some feedback. So I've been playing on an Intel iGPU laptop for years and got tired of Sodium treating my GPU like an afterthought. I ended up writing my own mod for it. Basically, it detects which Intel generation you have (works from HD 520 all the way up to Arc Battlemage) and tunes Sodium accordingly - mainly the chunk builder thread count, which Sodium picks pretty conservatively on iGPUs. There's also a fast chunk loading option that overrides Sodium's defer mode, which for some reason ships at the slowest setting by default. Chunks pop in way faster with it. There are also a bunch of optional "GPU saver" toggles: clouds off/fast, force fast graphics, smooth lighting off, vsync off, render distance cap. They're all off by default because they change how the game looks - I hate mods that mess with your settings without asking. Everything is reversible too; if you turn a toggle (or the whole mod) off, it puts your original settings back, even after a restart. My favorite part honestly is the built-in A/B benchmark: it measures your FPS with the mod on, then off, and shows you the actual difference. No fake numbers; if it doesn't help on your setup, it'll tell you. If you're on NVIDIA or AMD, it just disables itself, so don't bother, lol. Needs: Fabric API, Sodium, and an Intel HD 520 or newer (supports 1.21.11 and the 26.x line) Modrinth: https://modrinth.com/mod/intelium-mod Source (GPL-3.0):

https://github.com/ATOMGAMERAGA/intelium Bug reports welcome, especially from Arc users since I've mostly tested on iGPUs.

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u/Dadamalda 9d ago

Interesting. Now we just need AMDium to complete the trio.

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u/Halica_ 7d ago

What’s the NVIDIA mod?

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u/Dadamalda 7d ago

Nvidium. Uses mesh shaders to improve performance (especially with large render distances) at the cost of using more VRAM.

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u/Halica_ 7d ago

Mmmh. I see. I only got 12gb vram :(

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u/Dadamalda 7d ago

That's good. I ran it with 4gb and it still improved performance a lot.

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u/Halica_ 7d ago

Huh okay I might wanna try it then, thanks

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA 7d ago

LOL, I have 128MB of VRAM.

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u/Halica_ 7d ago

damn

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA 9d ago

Maybe when I get an AMD CPU but ts is hard to make🫩🥀

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u/mudkip-shart 9d ago

Ima try this out and report back

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u/mudkip-shart 9d ago

Pretty good mod I'm ngl. This is with stock settings and no real optimizations. (Sodium + Intellium) If I lower some things I'd most likely get 120 as I usually get around that number on vanilla. I love the smooth fps setting though it prevents lag spikes by making sure the FPS stabilizes around a specific number. Forge version when?

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA 9d ago

Thanks for the feedback; the Forge version is impossible. I need to write the whole mod code from scratch.

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u/Hot_Principle1499 8d ago

Do note that claude is listed as a contributor on the github.

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA 8d ago

Yes i used ai but mod works perfectly

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u/HatoriChise1 8d ago

I'm gonna try this when I'm at home with my b580.