[MCPE-202955] Vibrant Visuals: Low FPS near Large Water Sources

Even though the performance with the new visuals is good, going near an ocean significantly lowers the FPS.

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MCPE-201599 Vibrant Visuals FPS decrease when looking at water in Favor Visuals mode and FPS decrease when I open up any Xbox Menu or get any notification in Favor Performance mode Resolved

MCPE-218137 Vibrant visuals water fps issue Resolved

MCPE-223553 Drastic FPS Drop when looking at the Water in Vibrant Visuals Resolved

MCPE-225218 Severe performance drops when looking at bodies of water Resolved

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Joe Hawrylkiw 2025-04-03T20:09:18Z

Probably due to all the reflections, what did you have reflection quality set to?

[Mod] LateLag 2025-04-04T02:16:13Z

This is probably caused by the volumetric fog setting.

PavanShetty 2025-04-08T13:19:45Z

It may be because of those cool water reflections, try the settings for vibrant visuals it may help out.

GreasyBat735419 2025-04-26T14:08:08Z

Can confirm on Xbox

I have tried fiddling with the volumetric for setting, but doesn't affect performance near large water sources, as the fps lowers even when only the water is in sight without volumetric fog in sight.

Rockstar 2025-05-01T15:47:13Z

issue is still present and tweaking visuals is not helping without drastically reducing them.

Ps5 should we be able to handle it easily there should be a consideration that this is from the devs side

Dalton Hall 2025-07-23T20:29:22Z

This happens on Xbox too.

It is NOT because of volumetric fog and it is NOT because of SSR.

You can test both options set to the lowest possible on Minecraft preview and there is no improvement.

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This also happens with more than just “oceans” it happens with any large body of water.