This mod requires Fabric, not Forge.
Dynamic FPS automatically reduces the speed at which minecraft renders when it's not focused (to 1 FPS) or hidden (no renders at all). It also fixes a bug in Vanilla Minecraft that makes it take much more performance in the background than it should, as well as making the game not render while reloading resources (which makes it take forever on my machine!).
It doesn't seem to work when I have pauseOnLostFocus set to false in option.txt. I really don't want to pause when I alt-tab out. Is there a way around this?
Oh huh, this is the exact opposite of what I was envisioning when I literally coded in special casing to have it not reduce fps when pauseOnLostFocus is off…
Short of adding a config file, which I guess would be the "right" solution, there's two things you could try:
Hello, I AFK a lot does it still allow me to do this?
It only affects how often the game renders, so yeah, everything else keeps working as usual.
Doesn't seem to do anything for me.
Try this: have a campfire in sight, then pause the game—the campfire will continue to animate. Now, interact with another window, so minecraft isn't active anymore, but is still (at least partially) visible. You'll see the campfire update only once per second now.
Additionally, if minecraft is hidden from view entirely, it won't render at all, but that of course cannot be verified easily.
forge version pls
Please read the existing comments before posting your own lol; I've literally answered this request twice already.
Make a Forge version.
Thanks.
Please refer to this.
FPS Reducer is alive and well; just use that.
cAN I USE THIS IN A MODPACK
Sure—it's MIT licensed, so technically you could do whatever you want with it. If the modpack is hosted on here, I actually get downloads from it, so that's great.
Any chance this mod could work with forge on MC version 1.12.2? DM me your PayPal and I'll buy you a cup of coffee... I'll even buy you a couple beers if that`s your cup of "thee" ;)
I'm not really a modder but I know a thing or two, if you don't want to spend the time on this and wouldn't mind sending me in to the right direction, that`s also good. Anyway, I use this all the time and couldn't imagine not having it. Keep up the good work.
I'm really glad you appreciate the mod!
Funnily enough, it was actually a port of FPS Reducer to Fabric/1.14; that should achieve more or less the same end result on Forge—let me (or the author of that mod in the issues tab) know if there's something you're missing there :)
does this need Optifine?
It does not! However, it is compatible with optifine, as long as you don't mind the minor jittering when the game is slowed down (because of what optifine does to the framebuffer).
In reply to Juliand665:
thanks so much! i'm gonna try this out right now.
Is this just like the FPS Reducer mod? If so, what are the benefits?
In reply to Swordee77:
I guess the only real difference is that this one uses Fabric.
As Shyning pointed out, this mod uses Fabric rather than Forge, so if you want to play with Fabric mods, you won't be able to combine them with FpsReducer (at least not yet), so this offers a nice alternative. Additionally, FpsReducer actually configures the FPS Minecraft is set to, while this mod simply makes it render less (or not at all if it's hidden, which FpsReducer doesn't distinguish), which has the benefit of it "coming back to life" instantly once you switch back to the game. FpsReducer, on the other hand, takes a couple frames (which can take a while, depending on how strongly you set it to reduce your FPS) to get back to normal.