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Minecraft 1.19.4 Ray Tracing (RTX) Setup without Nvidia RTX Hardware on Ubuntu 22.04

oDinZu's Minecraft Forge ⚡

In this tutorial we will be creating an up-to-date Minecraft 1.19.4 that includes all the bells and whistles to have a super awesome experience. Upon completion of this tutorial, you will have the coolest Minecraft setup in the Galaxy. ⚡

Requirements:

Official Minecraft Java Edition
Linux Ubuntu
Java 17+
OptiFine
SEUS Renewed Shaderpack
Basic CLI Experience

Create a Workspace for your Modded Minecraft

Note: This folder will be used for all the files being downloaded in the following steps..

I created it in: ~/Desktop/Application/Minecraft

Download & Install Java 17+ on Ubuntu

sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre

Verify you are using Java17+

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Then, select the Java version you want to use; in this case, Java-17...

Download Required Files

Download Vanilla Minecraft Launcher & launch the game; this will create the .minecraft folder in your home directory. https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.tar.gz
Download Minecraft Forge 1.19.4 https://files.minecraftforge.net/net/minecraftforge/forge/index_1.19.4.html
Download OptiFine 1.19.4 HD U I4 https://www.optifine.net/downloads
Download SEUS Renewed 1.0.1 https://sonicether.com/shaders/download/renewed-v1-0-1/

Install Minecraft Forge

Open your CLI terminal WIN+T, then navigate to the application folder you created earlier.


cd ~/Desktop/Applications/Minecraft/

Then, run the forge-19.4-installer.jar from the terminal

java -jar ‘/home/csharpe/Desktop/Applications/Minecraft/forge-1.19.4-45.0.43-installer.jar’

Next, a Java GUI should populate. Select "Install client" and leave default install location. For me this location is: ~/.minecraft and click "OK".

It will begin installing minecraft forge. Once it has finished, we move into the next step.

Open Minecraft Java Edition Launcher

After Forge has been installed, we will see a new installation by going to the "Installations" tab at the top of the launcher.

From here, we test Forge by clicking "Play" to launch it on our PC.

If everything is working and the Minecraft 1.19.4 launches, congrats, move on to the next step.

If however your game crashes on launch with Exit code 1, check the ~/.minecraft/mods folder. There may be outdated mods you forgot about, delete these and relaunch the minecraft client.

Update Java Executable Path in Launcher Settings

If you are having trouble with launching your Minecraft, you can manually set the java executable in the “Installations” tab and extending the “More Options”. You can discover this information from your CLI from copy/paste the previous step of update-alternatives. My java binary was located in the following:


/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.17.0-openjdk-amd64/bin/java

Installation of OptiFine HD Ultra I4

In the CLI (terminal), we do the same thing we done for forge-..installer.jar, but for OptiFineHD.jar


java -jar '/home/csharpe/Desktop/Applications/Minecraft/OptiFine_1.19.4_HD_U_I4.jar'

After executing that in the terminal, another GUI populates. Click "Install". Once it completes the installation, launch Minecraft OptiFine HD Ultra I4 from the Minecraft Launcher. If OptiFine doesn't show up, goto the "Installations" tab again and click the "New Installation" button. From here, we name our installation to something like "oDinZu's OptiFine Minecraft Forge" and pick the OptiFine release 1.19.4 under the dropdown "VERSION".

Increase Performance & Stability of Minecraft OptiFine Version

Goto the Minecraft Launcher and under the Installation tab, hover over the 3 little ... and select "Edit".

Next, click the "MORE OPTIONS" and copy/paste the following into the "JVM ARGUMENTS". Then, Save and relaunch OdinZu's OptiFine Minecraft Forge-1.19.4. If all goes well, you should have a smoother experience running and playing Minecraft.

If curious about what some of these options do, please visit the following link to learn more. The main settings are -Xmx8G defines a minimum of 8G of RAM and -XX:ParallelGCThreads=16 defines how many threads on my CPU I want to use. These two may need adjusted depending on your hardware.


-Xmx8G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=25 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=16 -XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=6000 -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=90 -XX:+UseNUMA -XX:+UseBiasedLocking

Installation of SEUS Renewed Shaders

We copy/paste the downloaded zip into ~/.minecraft/shaderpacks folder.

I simply completed this task by dragging and dropping the SEUS-Renewed-v1.0.1.zip directly into the shaderspacks directory.

Improve FPS and Quality of Life with SEUS Renewed Shaderpack

I done this by following the tutorial on YouTube.com from AnEstonian.

Congratulations!!! You should now have a super sweet performant Minecraft client for your own pleasing. I hope the article was easy to read and provides a frame of reference for any future updates.

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