In this video I’m testing Minecraft with BSL Shaders on my current setup to see how playable it really is. I’m running an RX 6600 with a Ryzen 5 CPU and 16GB RAM, and I start with my initial “high” video settings—high render distance, high simulation distance, and pretty high smooth lighting. With those settings, FPS was on the lower side (around 41 FPS at times, with an average around 57 FPS). It’s not super smooth, but it’s still playable if you’re okay with a heavier feel. The main takeaway is the bottleneck: the GPU is doing fine, the RX 6600 isn’t the problem here—Minecraft shaders are very CPU dependent, so the CPU holds it back. I’m also recording and benchmarking at the same time, so if I wasn’t recording, FPS would be a bit higher. After that, I optimize the settings by dropping render distance to 9 chunks, simulation distance to 8 chunks, and smooth lighting to 48%, and the performance jumps a lot—up to around 95 FPS—making gameplay much smoother. Watch till the end to see the difference between the higher settings and the optimized settings in real gameplay.