Check your settings!
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:38 pmIf you've recently updated to Minecraft 1.4, you may need to check your settings. I noticed that under video options the cloud layer had been mysteriously disabled. I didn't notice this for quite some time since I've spent a great deal of time underground (like a hipster), but something just didn't seem right about the overworld...
This might simply be an artifact of configuration migration under Linux so Windows users may or may not be affected. I can't be certain, but I'd suggest giving your video settings a once over just to be on the safe side. At the very least, it should now be safe to enable advanced OpenGL without much of a performance hit on networked games. If you find that the world around you isn't rendering fast enough, you may have to go back to disabling advanced OpenGL.
This might simply be an artifact of configuration migration under Linux so Windows users may or may not be affected. I can't be certain, but I'd suggest giving your video settings a once over just to be on the safe side. At the very least, it should now be safe to enable advanced OpenGL without much of a performance hit on networked games. If you find that the world around you isn't rendering fast enough, you may have to go back to disabling advanced OpenGL.