ReFine

ReFine — 1.1.0 Rendering and Performance Update

A major update focused on Vulkan rendering, frame pacing, image reconstruction, distant terrain and performance diagnostics.

VULKAN RENDERING

• Vulkan-based rendering backend for Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge.
• Configurable terrain and entity culling, indirect drawing and render-layer settings.
• Anisotropic filtering for clearer textures at shallow viewing angles.
• Configurable smooth lighting, including experimental sub-block shading.

UPSCALING AND IMAGE QUALITY

• Adjustable world render scale while menus and the HUD remain at native resolution.
• AMD FSR 1 EASU spatial upscaling.
• Temporal upscaling and anti-aliasing through TAAU.
• FXAA as an alternative when temporal upscaling is disabled.
• RCAS contrast-adaptive sharpening.
• Dynamic resolution driven by measured GPU frame time.

FRAME GENERATION AND LATENCY

• Optional generation of an intermediate frame between rendered frames.
• Separate reporting of rendered and displayed FPS.
• Low-latency mode that limits GPU frame queuing.
• Frame-generation controls integrated with the rendering settings.

Generated frames improve displayed motion smoothness; they do not increase simulation speed. Frame generation can introduce visual artifacts and additional latency.

HORIZON: DISTANT TERRAIN

• Simplified terrain rendering beyond the normal chunk distance.
• Configurable range from 32 to 512 chunks, with multiple detail levels.
• Progressive preparation and cached terrain data.
• Single-player terrain approximation using the world generator.
• Multiplayer distant terrain reconstructed from previously visited chunks.

Horizon approximates the landscape surface. It does not reproduce caves, individual objects or full distant structures.

FRAME PACING AND ENGINE WORK

• Frame-budgeted chunk mesh uploads.
• Budgeted client light updates to reduce concentrated update work.
• A precision frame limiter with adaptive timing.
• Background frame limiting while the window is inactive.
• Engine optimizations covering entity lookups, section scans, random generation and hopper queries.
• Automatic disabling of overlapping engine optimizations when selected optimization mods are detected.

PRESETS AND ADAPTIVE SETTINGS

• Low, Medium, High and Smart presets.
• Smart settings consider available hardware and react to sustained performance pressure.
• Presets cover rendering quality, resolution and Horizon settings.
• Categorized settings with descriptions, Apply and Undo controls, and independent menu scaling.

PERFORMANCE TOOLS

• Lens HUD with FPS, 1% lows, frame-time history and update queues.
• Compact FPS counter with frame-generation reporting.
• Built-in benchmark comparing current settings with all four presets.
• Quick and precise measurement modes.
• Results include average FPS, low-percentile FPS, frame times, GPU time and stutter counts.
• Benchmark reports and restoration of previous settings after completion or cancellation.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1.
• Minecraft Forge 47.x.
• Java 17.
• Vulkan-capable graphics hardware and drivers.
• Client-side installation; no server installation is required.

Performance depends on hardware, settings, world complexity and installed mods. This release does not imply complete OptiFine feature or shader-pack compatibility.