Known Issues
Description: When incompatible versions of the RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS) are present (version 7.3.3 or older), you will likely experience extreme performance problems in Minecraft, and your hard drive may be filled up by the excessive number of errors being written to the game's log file.
Affects versions: Sodium 0.5.0 (and newer)
Mitigation: Sodium 0.5.7 (and newer) will automatically detect whether an incompatible version of RivaTuner Statistics Server is running, and will crash the game to prevent these extreme issues.
You must either fully disable (or uninstall) the RivaTuner Statistics Server application. This is the only way to prevent it from injecting itself into other games and applications. Doing so is often as easy as just closing out of the running application, or ending it from Task Manager.
Important
Adding the javaw.exe process to the exclusion list of RTSS is not enough to solve the problem, as it will still inject itself into all running games and applications. Since we cannot detect whether the injected module is actually doing something, the game will crash all the same.
Tip
If you don't remember ever using or installing the RivaTuner Statistics Server, then check to see if you have MSI Afterburner installed (or similar software), as they're often bundled together.
If you have upgraded to the latest version of RivaTuner (version 7.3.4 or newer) then you can try forcing the game to run anyways, even in the presence of RivaTuner.
Warning
We don't recommend doing this, and we will not provide support for any issues which may happen if you choose to use this option. We do not know the exact set of conditions which cause this bug to happen, and so we're trusting that you do know with this option.
This can be done by modifying your launcher's profile to include the following JVM argument:
-Dsodium.checks.win32.rtss=false
You will likely also need to disable the following option from in-game in order to avoid errors:
Options > Video Settings > Performance > Use No Error Context
Please note however that this does not guarantee that everything will work correctly, since RTSS will still be modifying the OpenGL context in ways that Sodium may not expect.