[2018] Weekly Switch Performance Awareness

Originally posted by NexusPatriot

For the past few weeks, I have been adamantly vocalizing how performance of BR has been absolutely abysmal on the Nintendo Switch.

All of my posts have mostly gone unnoticed. I’m sure many more of them will continue to be buried under the memes, great plays, and other amazing ideas that manifest on this sub, and that’s okay.

In building awareness and getting Epic to remedy the situation, I will continue to post every week on Friday, about the cataclysmic state the Switch version of the game is in.

It is borderline unplayable. Textures aren’t loading in, players are invisible, frames drop down below 10 even in 1v1s, and excessive server side lag.

There is no reason that the mobile version of the game on iOS and Android are more stable than a dedicated gaming console.

Hardware limitations in mind, you committed to bringing this game to the Switch. So commit, Epic.

Originally posted by NexusPatriot

Holy crap you responded to a post that went COMPLETELY under the radar!

If I could give you digital cookies at least for paying attention, I would. So thank you.

But to business: I wish could provide evidence to support the claims made here, but the Switch doesn’t support recording through its native hardware for Fortnite. This makes sense, as this does help boost performance a bit. I could try and run around to capture some stills, but standard pictures doesn’t really encapsulate the problem.

The biggest issue is just basic performance. The game doesn’t run at 30fps. It’s gotten to the point where even in handheld mode, the poor fan is whining as hard as it can, and it can’t even stay at 30fps in 1v1 fights. I don’t ever see larger based game modes like Disco and Food fight to ever be stable on Switch, as it just doesn’t seem possible. However, every other base mode should fare well.

If you are able to answer, have you guys ever considered just putting the mobile version of the game on the Switch? It’s graphical and rendering assets are significantly lower than what the Switch currently has. The Switch has graphical settings that are definitely inferior to its console counterparts, but significantly better than on mobile.

Why not just put the mobile version of the game on the Switch? At least its same graphical settings? Mobile clearly has very relaxed graphics compared to any other device, so if that version can run on Snapdragons and A-Bionics, it should run fairly well on a Tegra SoC.

Also, if you don’t want to take anything away graphically, why not have two different setting options on Switch? Have a Thematic option vs Performance option. For people who don’t care, they can keep playing the game as is on Thematic. For people who are yearning for a better experience, there’s the Performance mode, which significantly hinders the graphics to a mobile state, but performance increases significantly.

I’m no game designer, but I have played on pretty much every device this game has released on. I love this game, but the Switch is definitely the most harrowing version of the game to play currently.

I really hope this message gets around your offices. And if you actually took the time to read all this in your busy fury of running the biggest game in the world, sincerely, thank you.

I’ll buy a skin in your honor, Freight Train.

Sincerest thanks again!

Originally posted by progressivemotion

https://youtu.be/3q9IkMQ_ADI this a glitch i use ro run into all the time were i couldnt swing my ax or shoot untill ibpicked up and drop something. The extreme lag i experience afterwards was the first time i have experience that.

https://youtu.be/s-CNXaOOG74 This is what the game plays like always at the start of the match and if there is intense building going on.

https://youtu.be/xUSnb0u9Fys this is the worse lag in the game at tilted at the start of the match.
My game use to never do this befoee the fortnitemares update. Sqauds always ran kind of bad but solos feet like it was almost perfect. And if it matters i use motion controls. Which btw i noticed the building multipler does not increase the motin controls build speed. Thanks for your time and have a good night/day