OCD Shaders 2.0.0 Beta 2

The biggest update to OCD Shaders yet. This release focuses on stability, usability, and giving players better control over shaders in heavily modded Forge environments.

New Features

Compatibility Doctor

• Added an automatic compatibility scanner.
• Detects common rendering conflicts before they become crashes.
• Checks installed rendering mods and shader-related dependencies.
• Copy diagnostic report with a single click for bug reports.

Crash Recovery

• Automatic recovery after shader loading failures.
• Safely restores the last known working configuration.
• Prevents endless crash loops caused by incompatible shader packs.

Performance Presets

Added built-in presets:

• Potato
• Balanced
• High
• Ultra
• Cinematic

Quickly optimize visuals for your hardware without manually changing dozens of settings.

Shader Benchmark

• New performance benchmark.
• Automatically recommends the best graphics preset based on your system.
• Stores recommendations for future launches.

Adaptive Performance

• Dynamic quality scaling.
• Automatically adjusts shader quality when FPS drops.
• Restores quality when performance improves.

New Shader Browser

• Search support.
• Favorites.
• Recently used shader packs.
• Improved sorting.
• Better metadata display.
• Cleaner interface.

Shader Profiles

Create profiles for different play styles:

• Survival
• Building
• Exploration
• Nether
• Screenshot
• Streaming
• Custom

World & Server Profiles

• Different shader settings for each world.
• Separate settings for multiplayer servers.
• Per-dimension profile support.

Quick Access Menu

New in-game menu allowing instant access to:

• Shader toggle
• Reload shaders
• Performance presets
• Favorite shader packs
• Shader settings

Distant Horizons Support

• Improved compatibility detection.
• Better status reporting.
• Recommended settings for supported shader packs.

User Interface

• Complete OCD branding overhaul.
• Updated logo throughout the mod.
• Redesigned menus.
• Improved loading animations.
• Cleaner settings layout.
• Better tooltips.
• Improved accessibility.

Stability

• Improved shader initialization.
• Better error handling.
• Safer shader compilation.
• More informative crash messages.
• Additional compatibility checks during startup.
• Improved recovery from rendering failures.

Performance

• Faster shader switching.
• Reduced reload times.
• Lower memory usage during shader compilation.
• Improved startup performance.
• Better caching.

Fixes

• Fixed several shader loading edge cases.
• Fixed multiple UI inconsistencies.
• Fixed profile loading issues.
• Improved compatibility with modern Forge 1.20.1 modpacks.
• General code cleanup and optimization.

Technical

• Updated internal systems.
• Improved configuration handling.
• Expanded diagnostic logging.
• Additional compatibility framework for future rendering mods.
• General refactoring and code modernization.