I've recently been trying to install optifine on minecraft to improve performance, but for some reason or another it doesn't want to work out. Could someone give me a kind of step-by-step for properly installing optifine so it will actually run? Much appreciated.
Sure! First, you need to have a program like winrar or 7-zip. Once you have that installed, (Assuming your on a PC, and not a mac, if you are on a mac, I cant help you) open up the "Start" menu. Click run. Type in %appdata% with the precent signs. You should see a folder called ".minecraft". Open it, then double click "bin". Then you should see something called "minecraft", open that with winrar or 7-zip. You can do that by right clicking on the "minecraft" icon(The one in "bin", not the one you use to play minecraft) and clicking open with, then click on winrar or 7-zip. After that, you should see a bunch of files. Download optifine, open the thing it comes with, it should be a whole bunch of files and classes and stuff. Highlight all of that except the "..." file. If you see no "..." file, then just dont bother. Drag all the stuff from the optifine download and into the "minecraft" thing. You will also see a file called "Meta-inf" or something like that. Delete "Meta-inf". That should work. SHOULD.
That's the problem I'm having there, I can't figure out how to "drag and drop" the optifine folder into the .minecraft folder.
To drag and drop, you have to select all the files with the selection box that you can make with your left mouse button in the optifine zip, then drag the files until the mouse is over the minecraft.jar and release the left mouse button.
To drag and drop, you have to select all the files with the selection box that you can make with your left mouse button in the optifine zip, then drag the files until the mouse is over the minecraft.jar and release the left mouse button.
or download this minecraft.jar I made
and navigate to
and place the minecraft.jar in it, if it asks you to replace your current one do so.
And this is what dragging and dropping looks like