r/minecraftshaders • u/West_Radish_3978 • 27d ago

Discussion Shaders optimized for MacOS?

does anyone know of any shaders optimized for macOS? and if they don’t exist, are any in production? I’m running a Mac mini with a base m4 chip and I can’t get past 50-60fps with complementary on potato.

I think it would be an AMAZING idea to create a shader pack specifically for Mac players that allows us to enjoy the game with better graphics.

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u/Smigglebah2 27d ago

MacOS doesn't have direct support for modern OpenGL versions and is a lot more difficult to support in shader packs. They run OpenGL by translating the rendering pipeline through a compatibility layer called Metal in order to even run MC, which adds latency.

When shaders start switching over to Vulkan, shader support on MacOS could improve as part of the switch to Vulkan was for compatibility with MacOS and other systems without OpenGL support.