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Best Settings for RTX 4070 Super with BSL Minecraft Shader

By / Minecraft, Tech / April 19, 2025

Best BSL Minecraft Shader Settings to dial in on your RTX 4070 Super at 1440p desktop resolution, explored.

Best Settings for RTX 4070 Super with BSL Shader
Village and the Pyramids with BSL Minecraft Shader (Image via Mojang | Deltia;s Gaming)

BSL shaders in Minecraft are loved for their perfect blend of beauty, performance, and cinematic experience. Unbound shaders have an alternative, Reimagined, that relies on raster performance. BSL also does the same and is even lighter than the Reimagine shaders. From our observations, the BSL shaders rarely cross the 7GB VRAM usage mark. Regarding the 4070 Super, the settings below recommend 1440p native high-fps gameplay, but you can dial in 4K and expect similar results.

Note—Gamers particularly like the soft yet realistic lighting effect, which is not too overwhelming, referring to unbound or pale like Vanilla Minecraft. The combination used here is the Neoforge beta branch, along with Sodium and Iris, over Minecraft 1.21.5.

BSL Minecraft Shader Settings for RTX 4070 Super (1440p)

RTX 4070 Super with BSL Minecraft Shader
Select the ultra profile as an optimal starting point with the BSL Minecraft Shader (Image via Mojang | Deltia’s Gaming)

You should start with the Ultra profile, as shown in the above image; it’s a compelling starting point, as you can dial in the preset and forget other options. The customizations offered with BSL are huge; you can tweak everything over here. If you want the lighting to fit your mood, then do the following:

  • Go to Options > Video Settings > Shaders, select BSL, and click Shader Options.
  • Navigate to the “Color Grading & Tonemap” section. You can adjust brightness, exposure, saturation, and vibrance to set the mood here.
  • Reduce the “Minimum Light Intensity” under Lighting for darker, more atmospheric caves and nights.

There is a lot more you can explore and tune to your heart’s content.

Performance Settings

SettingValue
Chunk Update ThreadsDefault
Always Defer Chunk UpdatesEnabled
Use Block Face CullingEnabled
Use Fog OcclusionEnabled
Use Entity CullingEnabled
Animate Only Visible TexturesEnabled
Use No Error ContextEnabled
Reduce FPS whenAFK

Quality Settings

SettingValue
GraphicsFancy
Color SpaceRefer to your monitor’s colorspace
CloudsFancy
WeatherDefault
LeavesDefault
ParticlesAll
Smooth LightingEnabled
Biome Blend2 block(s)
Entity Distance100%
Entity ShadowsEnabled
VignetteEnabled
Mipmap Levels4x

General Settings

SettingValue
Render Distance28 chunks // turn these down if FPS takes a hit
Max Shadow Distance20 chunks // turn these down if FPS takes a hit
Simulation Distance18 chunks // turn these down if FPS takes a hit
Brightness50% (Personal Preference)
GUI Scale3x (Personal Preference)
FullscreenEnabled
Fullscreen ResolutionCurrent
VSyncDisabled
Max FramerateUncapped
View BobbingEnabled
Attack IndicatorCrosshair
Autosave IndicatorEnabled

You can experience BSL’s cinematic high-fps experience with the above settings as a baseline. It is recommended that you pair Faithful or any other shader with at least a 64x texture size to try something new.

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