Yesterday, we reported on the rather troubling performance issues often seen in Fortnite on Switch. With all sorts of problems occurring such as a serious amount of lag and issues with texture loading - and with the game's performance seemingly deteriorating week-on-week - fans banded together online to send a plea to developer Epic Games, asking for improvements.
It would appear that Epic has heard the prayers of its fanbase, as the studio has rolled out a brand new patch - specifically for Switch - which "includes improvements for some hitching issues". Hitching - where your character will suddenly be shoved into a new position on-screen with a jerk-like movement - is one of the more common issues found in the game. Understandably, trying to pull off any acts of precision while your character jumps around your screen is impossible, so this patch is incredibly welcome.
While issues such as these can be highly frustrating, sometimes making the game near unplayable for some users, Epic Games does have a history of being very open with its players, taking any criticism on board and tweaking elements of the game where necessary. Fortnite's performance on Switch is still far from ideal, but we're hopeful that - with time - we should see some more improvements to help settle the current problems.
Have you fired up the game since this latest patch? Have you noticed any significant improvement? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Wheres the carear tab epic!!!!
Good to see they're at least responding
Just a quick piece of advice, when you are playing Fortnite on any platform you should pause any downloads on your internet network unless you have super fast internet. Not that it's going to fix issues on the Switch version but it has helped with lag issues for lots of players.
From my very limited playtime of this game , I can't say I noticed any issues on switch besides naff draw distance.
On mobile however , I played it on my razer phone and I deleted it after a few minutes, that 'hitching' issue literally made the android version unplayable.
@Powerballad you either played it early on or very shortly, because it really got worse with time
Appreciate them listening & taking action. Going to fire up Fortnite later today & see what kind of improvements have been made. If im going to keep investing time & money into this game it needs to perform much better. Trying to use the sniper has been an exercise in futility.
@Powerballad the extremely low poly for buildings and stuff when you first drop in has been awful. If you land on one of the poorly rendered buildings you get stick until it renders properly. Could be up to 5-6 seconds. Happened to me pretty much every time I played.
@SonOfVon 3 matches I believe , so yep, not a lengthy play test at all
@Supadav03 Imo , your experience shows why cross platform is a double edged sword. Luckily it defaults to same platform play so it's not completely unbalanced.
I had taken a break after burning out playing it daily for three months. Coming back to it now is hugely disappointing. They really need to sort out the frequency of their updates as this must be what is breaking the game so often. The texture loading problem is present in every game (I have 40mbps internet so the problem isn't at my end) Every time they update with new modes and weapons, something else breaks. Sort it out, Epic. I know it's free to play but this is just shoddy.
I agree. When it launched on the Switch, I had little to no problems aside from a little lag (too many ppl on my Wi-Fi). Each update for the last 3 or so weeks were supposed to have fixes included for the Switch. It wasn't until these patches were implemented that I started seeing textures that are grainy. I found myself under a house (literally). A squad came into the house. I could see them. I started shooting and for some reason my bullets wouldn't reach them. It's like they didn't see my bullets or me. I sent a bug report explaining what had happened. I tried to reproduce the bug, unsuccessfully. Although that was a one time gig, when I land in paradise palms, the buildings are always some grainy edged, almost blurry textures. I get that it is in "beta", I just wish that their fixes didn't bring so many other problems.
Seems to have fixed the issues for me.
Twas not the opponent that killed me.
Twas the non-loading texture that killed me.
Seriously what is this? Garry's Mod? Xenoblade 2?
Haven’t played the new patch at length, but it wasn’t hitching when I played. I hope it continues this way. The bad textures will need to be fixed— or I might just load up my Xbox One to play my acct on there
I think it runs fine, lol.
@Camel-Bird Trust me and the majority of the internet, the FPS issues are there mate.
Nice but still no full transfer to seamlessly go between your PC and on your Switch. For many people out there I'm sure there's a majority that uses gaming laptops and often have LAN parties with their mates. Having a gaming laptop or I guess a desktop PC with switch transferring over your vbucks no problem would be a great boon.
So how long until the Fortnite craze passes?
@Heavyarms55 Well the craze will worn-out in few months...but it will still be hugely popular for at least a decade .
that was fast
@BlueOcean That, and people having various issues with any online games (and especially Fortnite) should move it to the internal memory. This fixed a whole lot of issues for most of the people I know.
@RichieEB I wasen't saying that the problem wasn't there, that's undeniable. I was just saying that I haven't experienced it.
@Blizzia How can we move it to internal memory?
@Grant007 you just need to archive the game, turn off the Switch, pull out the micro sd, redownload the game, turn off the switch, put back in the micro sd card, & then turn on the switch. It does make a difference. I did this last night.
@Grant007 The most interactive way ever to do so right on nintendo switch. You just have to follow some simple steps:
1. Archive your game
2. Power off your system completely
3. Remove the SD card
4. Power it on again
5. Redownload the archived game
6. Once done power it off again
7. Put the SD card back on
8. Enjoy your game on internal memory
I seriously hope there's a simple button to do this on 6.x like every other device out there, can't believe a qol feature like that was not considered for the first version.
@wolfhammerr Thanks will give it a try
I just hope they fix the code for gyro implementation. It was fine when it launched in June, so I don't know what happened. But now the aiming is all inverted in the worst ways.. and aiming inversion doesn't help with the X axis.
I don't mind frame rate drops or slow texture loading, I'll even tolerate a few seconds of hitching when I first land. But lately it's been straight up horrible. I've had these last well over the 30 second timeframe when I've taken a video capture. Paradise Palms and Tilted Towers are unplayable at this point. Which really bites when my squad chooses to land there EVERY round.
At least it's given me good reason to get back into Splatoon
That is cool that they responded at least.
@Grant007 I see you got your answer, hope it fixes many of your issues It was a real gamechanger for me when i tried it.
Maybe the reason I don't get these issues is because the file isn't on SD. Maybe it is because I only played handheld... But it's weird that not everyone has the problems...
The game should've been 720p 60fps
@Blizzia Well, for me downloads were definitely to blame for lag. The internal vs. external topic is interesting. New consoles use USB 3.0 which is super fast but the way they stream data might differ. On Xbox One X a lot of data is buffered on RAM for faster loading, etc. but I suspect Xbox One S, PS4 and PS4 Pro might do it differently and also have less memory. Switch uses a totally different storage expansion, SD cards, but the read speeds are not super fast. What consoles do they play on?
@Blizzia Reading your other messages I get that you are talking about the Switch version so it makes sense that internal memory is faster on Switch because of the Switch SD reader speed. Your advice is good, people should install Switch games like this on the internal memory. It's weird that the only possible way is to remove the SD card for doing this though.
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