Sodium

Sodium 0.8.12-beta.1 fixes a number of bugs, adds some new features, and improves memory usage. The release includes a new display of FPS percentiles which more accurately represent what you actually want to know about the FPS.

• The median (labeled p50) shows the typical frame rate ignoring the slow frames
• The 98th and 99.5th percentiles show the FPS of slow and very slow frames The average, which is what Minecraft displays by default, can get pulled down by few slow frames even though otherwise the frame rate is pretty high. This leads to the average FPS being not very representative of the actual frame rate you're seeing most of the time.

The new option to sort entities quads by their closest point allows correct rendering of similar translucent entities that have specific types of otherwise wrongly sorted geometry. This is disabled by default as it incurs a performance cost.

The bug fixes include multiple crash fixes and changes to avoid retaining large memory allocations in specific scenarios.

• Avoid retaining large allocations created when heavy quad splitting takes place
• Fix buffer overflow caused by BSP Node reuse when quads were split
• Fix wrong applicability test in BaseBiForest that would cause wrong rendering at render distances >32
• Implement optional percentile fps display (#3633)
• Fix flat fluid lighting being too dark (#3620)
• Significantly reduce memory consumption on the direct sorting fallback path
• Fix issues with fluid shaping in both "improved" and regular mode
• Fix #3612 by performing uniform binding on particle rendering (#3637)
• Fixed #3603 (incorrect AO and skylight level around light sources) (#3631)
• Add option to sort Entity Quads by Closest Point (#3635)