I saw a video on YouTube where someone managed to make Minecraft look really nice without ray tracing with the R3DCraft TexturePack + 2 Addon's. I wanted to copy it, but after a long experiment it still doesn't work.
It looks like this:
I play on OptiFine 1.10, Contiinum Shader V2.0.4, if that has anything to do with the shader.
I have both the TexturePack and the Addon's on V1.10. You can see here:
The pack itself and the shader work, but I would like the bumpmappings and physically-based rendering of the addons that do NOT work.
What kind of GPU do you have? If the whole performance eats you should have a very good GraKa. So with a GT 240 I would not recommend shaders.