Hardware profiles
Distant Horizons settings for your PC
Start with a profile that leaves headroom for Minecraft, shaders, modpacks, and the operating system. These are starting points, not guaranteed FPS promises: generation speed depends on your CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and world.
Laptops and integrated graphics
Start distance64–128 chunks
LOD qualityLow to medium
Prioritize stable frame pacing and temperatures.
Read the laptop guideMainstream gaming PC
Start distance128–256 chunks
LOD qualityMedium
A practical starting point for most dedicated GPUs.
High-end gaming PC
Start distance256–512 chunks
LOD qualityMedium to high
Increase distance only after LOD generation catches up.
Large modpack or shaders
Start distance64–256 chunks
LOD qualityLow to medium
Reserve memory and GPU headroom for the rest of the instance.
Tune in this order
Set vanilla render distance first, then DH LOD distance, LOD quality, CPU load, and shaders. Change one setting at a time and wait for generation to stabilize. More RAM cannot fix a GPU bottleneck or make a server send chunks faster.