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Best Settings for RTX 4080 Super with BSL Minecraft Shader

By / Minecraft, Tech / April 18, 2025

Use these BSL Minecraft Shader Settings with your RTX 4080 Super when aiming for a 4K high-FPS cinematic experience.

Best Settings for RTX 4080 Super with BSL Minecraft Shader
Even with BSL Minecraft Shader, Faithful 64 Texture pack looks amazing (Image via Mojang | Deltia’s Gaming)

The Minecraft community loves the BSL shaders for their vibrant lighting, realistic water effects, and impressive performance. The RTX 4080 Super is likely overkill for this, but we’re talking about 4K here.

With BSL’s extensive customization options, gamers can aim for a high-FPS, cinematic, modded Minecraft experience. Provided Neoforge is used as a mod loader, along with Sodium and Iris. You can look forward to Faithful 64 and beyond, then play the game with the settings below. 

Note – Minecraft version 1.21.5 is used. Faithful 64 textures are the latest build from the month of March. 

Best BSL Minecraft Shader Settings for RTX 4080 Super (4K)

RTX 4080 Super with BSL Minecraft Shader
Use the ultra profile as shown here. After that, refer to customization as stated below (Image via Mojang | Deltia’s Gaming)

Consider using the ultra profile in the image above as a starting point. And then customize it further. BSL offers an extensive customization menu, letting you tweak everything from lighting behavior to its overall appearance. If all of them were to be covered, it would spoil the readability of this article. Here is what you can do: keep every other BSL shader setting at default, get within the options, and do the following:

  • Adjust the bloom to your liking
  • Adjust the Volumetric Lighting to your liking; the intensity is totally up to you. 
  • Changing the shadow quality
  • Turning Motion blur on or off
  • Turning on or off the Depth of Field effect
  • Setting your desires Anti-Aliasing option from TAA or FXAA

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 Distance32 chunks (you can increase this beyond 40, depending on the biome and base size)
Max Shadow Distance16 chunks (Increase this depending on biomes)
Simulation Distance16 chunks (Increase this depending on biomes)
Brightness50% (Personal Preference)
GUI Scale3x (Personal Preference)
FullscreenEnabled
Fullscreen ResolutionCurrent
VSyncDisabled
Max FramerateUncapped
View BobbingEnabled
Attack IndicatorCrosshair
Autosave IndicatorEnabled

Capt Tatsu, the developer of this mod, frequently updates and irons out issues, one of the big reasons why it is incredibly popular. The 4080 super alongside any texture pack can deliver incredible cinematic visuals, whether it’s Orange Savanna Village or Ancient City; everything looks fabulous and runs exceptionally well.

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