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Best Settings for RTX 4080 With BSL Minecraft Shader

By / Minecraft, Tech / April 16, 2025

Best BSL Minecraft Shader settings for the RTX 4080, aiming for a 4K high-refresh rate modded Minecraft experience.

Best Settings for RTX 4080 with BSL Minecraft Shader
Orange Savanna Village with BSL Minecraft Shader running on RTX 4080 (Image via Mojang Studios | Deltia’s Gaming)

The Minecraft modding community refers to the BSL shaders for cinematic color grading. BSL is extremely polite on hardware and runs on almost anything. These shaders offer a balance of beauty, such as realistic volumetric fog and clouds, weather effects, and more. Though the atmosphere is less about realism, unlike the SEUS PTGI ones, it’s more about a “grab your popcorn and enjoy the show” type of thing. Easier to run, meaning anyone can look forward to a cinematic Minecraft experience. The settings below should deliver a fast 4K gaming experience.

Note – BSL shaders are paired with Neoforge Latest Beta, Sodium, and Iris. In this instance, Minecraft version 1.21.5 is used.

Minecraft Shader – BSL running on RTX 4080 (4K)

RTX 4080 with BSL Minecraft Shader Alongside Neoforge, Sodium and Iris
Use the ultra profile with the baseline settings (Image via Mojang Studios | Deltia’s Gaming)

As the image above shows, use the settings below as a baseline, then select the Ultra profile under the shader options. BSL offers an overwhelming amount of customization, letting users tweak nearly everything—from lighting and bloom to ambient occlusion and tone mapping. If everything is included, this article will get extremely long and complicated. The Ultra profile is an excellent starting point and can be customized further depending on your RAM and VRAM headroom. Note that if you are using modded texture packs, different settings will yield different results. This instance uses stock Minecraft textures, and everything is vanilla, along with the Ultra profile with BSL shaders.

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
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

BSL Shaders frequently receive updates that fix bugs, improve compatibility, and add new features. Neoforge is a trending mod-loader now and plays along nicely with BSL. If your modbase prefers Optifine, this guide may not apply correctly. Remember that certain texture packs do not support Neoforge just yet.

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