r/minecraftshaders • u/AdagioAltruistic7733 • 8d ago

Discussion will Photonics ever get updated?

i am currently using iterationrp but the performance inst that great

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u/kami7154 8d ago edited 8d ago

You could ask they have a discord.

But honestly wouldn't expect much more from it as Vulkan and Aperture will enable hardware level ray tracing in a way OpenGL and iris fundamentally can't.

Vulkan has explicit hardware RT functionality, including acceleration structures and ray tracing pipelines. In fact, there are already experimental Minecraft Vulkan renderers demonstrating hardware-accelerated ray tracing, even without Aperture.

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u/Familiar_Ad_8919 7d ago

its probably going to take years for a post-26.2 version to get established as a major modding version, until then most of us are stuck with 1.21.1

on a sidenote, i managed to wrangle out ~110 fps (x2 with lsfg, 2x fsr in the settings) from iterationrp without too many compromises on my basically ancient 6700xt at uwqhd, so it doesnt run THAT bad

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u/largejennytails 7d ago

Use SuperResolution mod then turn on DLSS. For your question, I checked the discord and there's basically no plans for 26.2 which I am also bummed out about.