How To Download & Install Optifine 1.20.1 in Minecraft

OptiFine just released for minecraftwin.20.1 and in this video I’m going to show you exactly how to download how to install it and how to get it into Minecraft and start using OptiFine now obviously first things first you’ll need to download OptiFine and luckily if you click the second link

In the description down below that will take you here this is our in-depth guide for getting OptiFine covers everything in text format so you can either use this video or this article it’s up to you no matter what though once you’re here click on the yellow download

OptiFine button to be taken to the official OptiFine download page now once you’re here you’ll notice that it does save Minecraft 1.20.1 but it doesn’t have any versions under it that’s because right now optifine’s in preview in beta basically if there is a version under this you can

Just go ahead and well kind of probably press forward once on your keyboard otherwise what you need to do is select the preview versions here when you do that it’s going to unlock more versions under Minecraft 1.20.1 as you can see we’ve got OptiFine here you always want

To go with the one that the highest number at the end and if it doesn’t say pre that’s a good thing by the way if there is no preview versions or if there’s a version listed similar to what we have with 1194 like this that’s great that means audit finds out of beta

That’s the one you want to use nevertheless once you’ve got this here you want to click mirror next to the 1.20.1 version to be taken to That official download page on this page all you’ve got to do is click on the purple download button and OptiFine will begin downloading while that’s downloading how

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Nevertheless as you can see optifine’s now downloaded in the bottom left you may need to keep or save the OptiFine value downloaded but that’s just going to depend on the browser that you’re using nevertheless we can now go ahead and minimize our browser and what we

Want to do is move OptiFine to our desktop to do this it’s going to be in your downloads folder so open up the start menu type in downloads and open up the downloads file folder in here you will have OptiFine if yours doesn’t say preview that’s a good thing so don’t

Worry about that but let’s go ahead and drag OptiFine to our desktop the reason that’s a good thing by the way is that means OptiFine is no longer in Aida without refund on your desktop it’s time to install it now this is actually pretty easy assuming you have Java so

Right click on it click on open with click Java and click ok but Nick I don’t have Java well if you don’t have Java here what you need to do is go to the description down below and go through this guide this is our complete in-depth

Text tutorial right down here as well as video tutorial up at the top on how to get Java 17. Java 17 is required for Minecraft mods like OptiFine so go ahead and get it and guess what that means that in the future when you want another Minecraft Bot Java 17 is installed

Already now we also need to get the jar fix and what this is going to do is take all the jar files on your computer like OptiFine and Link them back to Java so if you’re having issues after you get Java 17 run the jar fix nevertheless

Let’s go ahead and minimize our browser and I’ve got Java so we can right click on OptiFine click on open with click Java and click OK the OptiFine installer will open up now at this point it is worth noting that you want to make sure that Minecraft and the Minecraft

Launcher is closed if it’s not you could have issues with the OptiFine installation you may also want to reopen up OptiFine if that is the case say those were open after you’ve closed them nevertheless let’s go ahead and install option all you’ve got to do is click on

The install button the only reason this might not work by the way is if you’ve never played Minecraft 1.20.1 before that’s the latest released 1.20.1 just literally go into Minecraft open it up click play open Minecraft to the main menu and then quit Minecraft that’s all

You’ve got to do and then you can come back reopen up the OptiFine installer and the install button in here will work nevertheless we and go and click OK under OptiFine is successfully installed and that will close out now we can also delete OptiFine from our desktop the

Good news is when we open up the Minecraft launcher we should have an OptiFine profile already set up ready to go like it should be here however if you don’t I will show you how to create one just in case so as we can see we have one optifine’s already selected it says

1.20.1 OptiFine under it if you’ve got this click play Click play again and then skip forward a little tutorial so you can see about how to use OptiFine a bit but if you don’t have OptiFine or if you click this drop down box and it’s not here go up to installations at the

Top then you want to make sure modded is checked as you can see if I deselect modded there OptiFine disappears if we check modded there’s OptiFine click Play Click play again but if you still don’t have OptiFine or don’t have the 1.20.1 version of OptiFine you want to click

New installations you can use whatever you want I’m in this simple game hosting because that’s where you can get an amazing Minecraft server quickly and easily for the versions drop down box I’m going to go ahead and select it here and then we want to select release 1.20.1 Dash OptiFine that’s the

Important part of this that you select release 1.20.1 OptiFine here under the versions drop down I’m also going to change the resolution but that’s just so we can see better once we get in game now if we hit create we have this new simple game hosting.com profile that most importantly has 1.20.1 OptiFine

Under it hover over this click play Click play again and now Minecraft is going to open up with you guessed it OptiFine installed we’ll see you on the main menu to show you some of the cool features that OptiFine has in 1.20.1 so here we are Minecraft is in fact open

And there’s really not a lot of indication on the main menu that OptiFine is installed you can see modded in the bottom left but if we go into options and video settings this is where we can not only see OptiFine in the bottom left and what specific version of

OptiFine and all that we also have all of optivine’s amazing settings what’s really cool about OptiFine is that not only can you increase how Minecraft looks you can also make it look worse you might be like why would you want to make my craft look worse well it’s a

Visual mod for both ends of the spectrum if you want to get a ton of FPS with OptiFine you can do that if you want to get amazing Graphics out of OptiFine where you go in here and you turn this to fabulous and you turn on some shaders

And all that that is possible by the way you might have been like why did shaders not work you actually can’t use shaders with fabulous Graphics so there we go let’s go ahead and select one of these shaders packs I’ve kind of pre-installed these for this video and then we can go

Ahead and click done by the way if you want to install shaders packs you have an in-depth guide on how to do that in the description as well as at the end of this video let’s go ahead and jump into single player we’ll be able to see that

Sure enough this is active shaders is active optifine’s active and everything looks amazing there we go now there is something amazing about all the way in fov for shaders screenshots and truthfully stunning shaders screenshots look at the the sun rays coming through around the bamboo beautiful and by the

Way if you want to switch shaders packs you can do that right in game so you can just go in here and we can switch to BSL shaders just to show off the shaders pack and show you that this really is working as it should so you have it if

You have any questions let us know in the comment section down below enjoy OptiFine enjoy shaders enjoy less lag whatever you use OptiFine for even if it is something like the Zoom