u/EpicBlargh

A 26.1.2 Greenfield Test of Voxy vs Distant Horizons

I haven't been into Minecraft much lately, but realized I have a decent computer and have been in awe of all the posts here of Voxy/Distant Horizons gameplay and wanted to share a test of my own.

The results may not be surprising, but any additional feedback would be cool as I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere.

Laptop Specs

  • Legion Pro 7 16IRX8H
  • Core i9-13900HX
  • NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 Laptop GPU, 16GB VRAM
  • 32GB DDR5

Minecraft Info

  • Version 26.1.2

  • 8GB Allocated

  • Java Azul Zulu 25.0.3

  • Arguments (Of which I am naive to):

    > -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+UseCompactObjectHeaders -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:+UseDynamicNumberOfGCThreads -XX:ZUncommitDelay=300

  • Both Instances Have:

    • Sodium/Lithium
    • C2ME
    • Ferrite
    • Newest version of Photon shaders (Medium preset)

Distant Horizons Gameplay

  • Stuttering, slow to load occasionally.
  • Never crashes.
  • Once you're in an area it runs well.
  • Initial LODs were from the original generation, NOT Greenfield. I had to explore everything to overwrite these LODs. I found this the most interesting.

Voxy Gameplay

  • Runs very smooth, considering. Flawless without shaders.
  • Has crashed on me a couple times.
    • Once after a longer play session.
    • Another after teleporting around a couple of times (this was so bad I had to restart my computer).
  • Never had wonky LODs.

TL;DR: For my setup, Distant Horizons is okay. Voxy is amazing. 10 year old me wouldn't have seen the light of day.

PLEASE let me know if I'm missing something. I haven't contributed in a while and feel like I am! Ask any question and I'll answer ASAP!

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u/EpicBlargh — 1 day ago