MCPE-40191General Poor/Laggy performance on Switch
With the recent 1.8.1 update my wife and I have started to notice a tremendous slow-down compared to how Minecraft used to run. My wife will load a world on the Switch and while it is still loading I can connect to it on the computer well before she ever spawns in. It takes a good minute for the game to finish saving after we're done playing as well, which may not seem like a long time but since we're trying to turn the system off most of the time it's pretty noticeable. The interfaces for chests/crafting benches, etc. sometimes lag opening even when only 1 person is active in the world and it is far, far worse when we're connected online even for the host (which for us is the Switch because we play together on my wife's world).
I thought it might be related to the number of entities in our base but it doesn't seem to improve even when we're both far enough away from our base to keep it from loading. Basically, overall performance on the Switch just seems to be drastically reduced recently.
Edit: Added a video to show the type of generally poor performance we've encountered. In the second half the player on the bottom (myself) hits an invisible wall on already loaded chunks apart from the other obvious signs of lag.
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General Poor/Laggy performance on Switch
With the recent 1.8.1 update my wife and I have started to notice a tremendous slow-down compared to how Minecraft used to run. My wife will load a world on the Switch and while it is still loading I can connect to it on the computer well before she ever spawns in. It takes a good minute for the game to finish saving after we're done playing as well, which may not seem like a long time but since we're trying to turn the system off most of the time it's pretty noticeable. The interfaces for chests/crafting benches, etc. sometimes lag opening even when only 1 person is active in the world and it is far, far worse when we're connected online even for the host (which for us is the Switch because we play together on my wife's world).
I thought it might be related to the number of entities in our base but it doesn't seem to improve even when we're both far enough away from our base to keep it from loading. Basically, overall performance on the Switch just seems to be drastically reduced recently.
With the recent 1.8.1 update my wife and I have started to notice a tremendous slow-down compared to how Minecraft used to run. My wife will load a world on the Switch and while it is still loading I can connect to it on the computer well before she ever spawns in. It takes a good minute for the game to finish saving after we're done playing as well, which may not seem like a long time but since we're trying to turn the system off most of the time it's pretty noticeable. The interfaces for chests/crafting benches, etc. sometimes lag opening even when only 1 person is active in the world and it is far, far worse when we're connected online even for the host (which for us is the Switch because we play together on my wife's world).
I thought it might be related to the number of entities in our base but it doesn't seem to improve even when we're both far enough away from our base to keep it from loading. Basically, overall performance on the Switch just seems to be drastically reduced recently.
Edit: Added a video to show the type of generally poor performance we've encountered.
With the recent 1.8.1 update my wife and I have started to notice a tremendous slow-down compared to how Minecraft used to run. My wife will load a world on the Switch and while it is still loading I can connect to it on the computer well before she ever spawns in. It takes a good minute for the game to finish saving after we're done playing as well, which may not seem like a long time but since we're trying to turn the system off most of the time it's pretty noticeable. The interfaces for chests/crafting benches, etc. sometimes lag opening even when only 1 person is active in the world and it is far, far worse when we're connected online even for the host (which for us is the Switch because we play together on my wife's world).
I thought it might be related to the number of entities in our base but it doesn't seem to improve even when we're both far enough away from our base to keep it from loading. Basically, overall performance on the Switch just seems to be drastically reduced recently.
Edit: Added a video to show the type of generally poor performance we've encountered. In the second half the player on the bottom (myself) hits an invisible wall on already loaded chunks apart from the other obvious signs of lag.
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This guy is right, actually the game when autosaves lags terribly, making it nearly unplayable. I and many users have been experiencing this problem. I found many bug report with the same problem
MCPE-40191 MCPE-40976 MCPE-40326 MCPE-40835
This happens to me too, and I had no problems before the update. It’s worse when it autosaves, which seems to be every other minute.
I turned off all the nice graphic options and it helped somewhat. However it still takes ages to start up the game, and save/load a world
Have you tried slightly turning down the render distance?
I also have the same exact problem. Along with the freezing from time to time while saving, it takes me a little while to load up the game itself, and opening the settings menu is very slow for me.
I have the same issue with my Switch version of the game as well v1.8.1. The lag became very bad for me on a file that was over 107.3MB. However, other smaller files 37.6 MB and 27 MB have also experienced this. (Still had my large file saved on my Switch.)
I am experiencing the same problem. The game will begin failing to load chunks around me and become unresponsive. Interaction with blocks and entering the object menu are affected too. It happens specially when autosaving, which occurs every 2 minutes. I noticed the lag is worst at splitscreen multiplayer and with huge files (>50MB)
Same issue here: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-41088
Same here:
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-40976
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