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JellySquid edited this page Aug 6, 2024 · 4 revisions

Description: When incompatible versions of the RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS) are present (version 7.3.3 or older), you will likely experience extreme performance problems in Minecraft, and your hard drive may be filled up by the excessive number of errors being written to the game's log file.

Affects versions: Sodium 0.5.0 (and newer)

Mitigation: Sodium 0.5.7 (and newer) will automatically detect whether an incompatible version of RivaTuner Statistics Server is running, and will crash the game to prevent these extreme issues.

Solution: Disable the RivaTuner Statistics Server

You must either fully disable (or uninstall) the RivaTuner Statistics Server application. This is the only way to prevent it from injecting itself into other games and applications. Doing so is often as easy as just closing out of the running application, or ending it from Task Manager.

Important

Adding the javaw.exe process to the exclusion list of RTSS is not enough to solve the problem, as it will still inject itself into all running games and applications. Since we cannot detect whether the injected module is actually doing something, the game will crash all the same.

Tip

If you don't remember ever using or installing the RivaTuner Statistics Server, then check to see if you have MSI Afterburner installed (or similar software), as they're often bundled together.

Solution: Allow the game to run regardless (for advanced users only)

If you have upgraded to the latest version of RivaTuner (version 7.3.4 or newer) then you can try forcing the game to run anyways, even in the presence of RivaTuner.

Warning

We don't recommend doing this, and we will not provide support for any issues which may happen if you choose to use this option. We do not know the exact set of conditions which cause this bug to happen, and so we're trusting that you do know with this option.

This can be done by modifying your launcher's profile to include the following JVM argument:

-Dsodium.checks.win32.rtss=false

You will likely also need to disable the following option from in-game in order to avoid errors:

Options > Video Settings > Performance > Use No Error Context

Please note however that this does not guarantee that everything will work correctly, since RTSS will still be modifying the OpenGL context in ways that Sodium may not expect.

Description: When ASUS GPU Tweak III is installed, it will inject itself into all processes which are not blacklisted. Because of bugs in the application, it will cause Minecraft (even when Sodium is not installed) to run very slowly and render incorrectly.

Solution #1: Add the Java Runtime to the application blacklist

Open the settings for ASUS GPU Tweak III, and scroll down until you see the option labeled "Blacklist". Click the toggle button to enable it, and then click "Browse for file...". In the file picker that appears, navigate to where your Java runtime is installed, and select the javaw.exe file under the bin directory.

You may need to restart your computer in order for these changes to take effect.

Solution #2: Uninstall ASUS GPU Tweak III from the computer

If you are unable to resolve the problem by adding the Java runtime to the application blacklist, then you can uninstall ASUS's application from your computer to fix the problem.