Enabling Vibrant Visuals on Minecraft Bedrock Edition now causes stuttering, FPS drops, and poor performance despite previously working smoothly without issues on the same hardware

Question

Vibrant Visuals on Minecraft Bedrock causes severe FPS lag on my device even in the play/game menu and also inside of worlds. The issue started after it had been working normally before; turning Vibrant Visuals off fixes it immediately, but lowering all settings, clearing cache, toggling 'Improved Input Response' on and off, and switching between TAAU and Bilinear did not help. I am on Minecraft version 26.32. (I also noticed that my performance with non-Vibrant Visuals was similar to my original Vibrant Visuals performance, which shows how much my frame rate has dropped.) My device is an 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11320H @ 3.20 GHz, with 15.7 GB usable RAM, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, and 477 GB storage.

Answer 1

Hello Galaxygod7423 (Minecraft Username),

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Based on the description, this doesn't seem like a settings issue, but instead a regression issue regarding to a new update or change. First of all, can you please check the GPU driver to see if it is fully up to date?

Before we proceed further, please help me do a little check. Can you please open the Performance tab of Task Manager and let me know the GPU performance when Vibrant Visuals is ON?

I'm waiting for your reply.

Answer 2

It says my driver is the Intel Iris Xe Graphics, version 31.0.101.3616 . It gives me an option to update the driver. However, the issue happened mid-game, after loading a new world, rather than after a Windows update.