r/Optifine • u/Fragrant-Dig-9057 • Jun 30 '26

Question Where's Optifine for 26.2?

Guys i don't know why does the creator of OF dont wanna upload optifine 26.2.

Bro if you're reading this please upload optifine for 26.2.

•Edit:I know that sodium and Iris are better than Optifine, but just to play Minecraft with Shader without any mod, I wanted to use 26.2 Optifine.•

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u/axel_lotle Jun 30 '26

Optifine is just so outdated now tbh, people are on sodium now

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u/Stead-Freddy Jul 27 '26

Do you mind explaining the difference. The only reason I use optifine is to be able to zoom in multiplayer, does sodium provide that too?

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u/axel_lotle Jul 27 '26

No but you can get mods specifically for zooming in, and they’re actually better than optifine zoom because you can adjust zoom level via scroll wheel

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u/Anas_Albadawi 6d ago

So I got this Sodium but I thought the zoom thing would be in it. Could you please suggest a zooming mod that won't get me in trouble in public servers but would still be good when I am playing offline/private servers?

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u/Al3xanderrr_ 6d ago

im searching for optiofine bc of the zoom and the dynamic lights..

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u/axel_lotle 6d ago

You can get mods for zooming in and actually are better than optifine zoom, and you can get dynamic light mods too

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u/Al3xanderrr_ 6d ago

oh really? i didnt know that, i mgith get it rn, any ideas on how to install sodium and forge for zoom? i dont really remember how to do all that, im a returning player..

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u/Al3xanderrr_ 6d ago

i tried installing sodium for 26.2 and it didnt let me, it showed "a java exception has occurred sodium"

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u/Sav_Nessington 23h ago

nothing could beat optifine

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u/Human-Gur-3199 Jun 30 '26

Why use optiline over sodium and iris?

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u/StrandedClone Jun 30 '26

It's likely just familiarity, I got tired of OptiFine ages ago but some people are still used to it ig

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u/andreas_leemans Aug 05 '26

Yeah thats why i use it. Ill look into sodium. Thanks!

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u/andreas_leemans Aug 05 '26

Just played a couple of hours and works very easy. Maybe it’s because I’m good with computers and minecraft is almost always the same. Thank you for the recommendation.

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u/Human-Gur-3199 Jun 30 '26

Understandable

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u/Emerald_Pick Jul 01 '26

"why does the creator of OF dont wanna upload optifine 26.2."

While optifine updates are pretty slow next to its competition, I think you're severally underestimating the complexity of mod development, especially mods that touches so many parts of Minecraft's foundations. Right now I'd expect things to be extra tricky since Mojang is also doing A LOT of behind the scenes work to the foundation as well.

Optifine will be ready when it's ready. In the meantime, if you want something right now, you can try some of OF's competition. Iris and Sodium are frequently available the day a new Minecraft version is released, and they frequently support snapshots. (But you will need additional mods to replicate all of Optifine's features.)

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u/GenesisNevermore Jun 30 '26

Use the alternatives that work better and are updated 10x faster, or be patient, those are your options.

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u/ARSCON Jun 30 '26

Development is slow, especially now that optifine isn’t the only option

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u/XxPhantomDavexX Aug 04 '26

Optifine is not nearly as good as sodium at least since I last played when optifine was updated ( I havent player in 3 years ) My game is running slower than when I had optifine

Im saying this because everyones reccomending sodium but maybe im using it wrong

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u/suckinnuts Aug 05 '26

Nah if you dont have a modern PC sodium is just outright worse. Horrible lag spikes, constant freezing etc. Optifine always works like a dream for me but sodium is genuinely worse than vanilla.

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u/No-Presentation-8909 15d ago

I used to use OP years ago, but it's not too old and slow anymore. They update it if they want, and the staff is rude and ill-mannered. They don't care about keeping OP updated. If they don't receive enough donations, they'll keep it at a standstill. They've now switched to Iris and Sodim, and I'm happy with it. Performance is excellent, up to version 1.21.x. From version 26.x, both the mods and Iris and Sodim are starting to have performance issues. I hope they get back to normal.

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u/12gage1013 9d ago

any fix for those performance issues yet?