Unsupported Mods and Clients (+ Workarounds/Fixes)

Not everything that works on PC works on PojavLauncher. Below is a non-exhaustive list of mods that may not work, along with fixes or workarounds.

Performance Mods + Shaders

• Sodium
• Embeddium
  • Same problem as Sodium
• Rubidium
  • Gl4ES Patch for GL4ES, otherwise same as the previous two
• Chlorine
• ShadersMod (GLSL Shaders)
• Iris, Iris Installer
• OptiFine
  • Render Regions don't work
• Optifine Shaders: The only supported shaders are Open4ES for GL4ES. It works best with Adreno graphics (found in Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs) and PowerVR graphics, with required patches (found in several low-end MediaTek SoCs). Mali GPUs are not supported. Below is a list of smartphones that are tested and works with Open4ES:
  • Xiaomi Poco F3 (Snapdragon 870)
  • Xiaomi Poco X5 Pro (Snapdragon 778G)
  • Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 (Snapdragon 665)
  • Oppo A53 (Snapdragon 460)
• Distant Horizons(2.0> only)
  • install this mod

Skyblock Mods

• Essential
• Skytils
  • 1.3.0-pre5 works
• Patcher
  • 1.6.1 works
• NotEnoughUpdates
  • 2.1.1-pre-1 works
• Skyblock Extras

Input-related Mods

• MidnightControls
• Controllable
• MouseTweaks
  • Almost all of them don't work because they aren't made with Android's inputs in mind

Other Mods

• WebDisplays
• Axiom
• Mekanism
  • Use angle/zink renderer.
• Quartz
• Legacy4J
  • Set selectedControllerHandler in options.txt to 0
• Create (Forge) (Fabric)
  • On gl4es disable flywheel by running "/flywheel backend off" in game (Only works on phones with an adrenos GPUs)
  • Or use angle/zink renderer.
• Flywheel
• Physics Mod
• Scannable
  • Works on 1.12
• Colormatic
• ItemPhysic
  • Lite works
• RandomPatches (Forge) (Fabric)
• Smooth Font
• MrCrayfish's Gun Mod
  • 1.16.5 is broken
• Applied Energistics, Applied Energistics 2
• Zombe
• ReplayMod
  • FFMPEG is wrongly placed
• Dynamic Surroundings
  • White textures on 1.12
• Immersive Vehicles
  • Only broken on Forge
• Immersive Engineering
  • Works on 1.12
• Immersive Portals
  • Use zink renderer.
• Immersive Railroading
• Immersive Engineering
• DiscordRPC
  • If your PvP/Hack Client crashes because of this, contact their developers for a fix.

Unsupported Clients

• BatMod
• LabyMod
• MysteryMod
• Lunar Client
  • ".exe"
• Badlion Client
  • ".exe"
• Salwyrr Client
  • You can't use a launcher in a launcher
• Meteor Client
• Pizza Client
• Cheeto Client
• 3arthh4ck
  • Patched version
• Ares Client

Credits

• https://github.com/Mathias-Boulay/ and all the people in issue #1948
• https://github.com/ZenZenXDz
• https://github.com/revoscode
• https://github.com/GaucovyAero