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[jufonuk]

As the title says.
I have had an OG switch since launch. Lately. A few games feel as if they are taking longer to load

DOOM 2016 for example.
I had a loading screen before the main screen. Around one minute to load. Then when the main screen loaded about it took 30 seconds, I then started the game which took about a minute to load as well. I don't remember it being this slow.
All of this was from cartridge.

From SD card. Immortal redneck takes nearly two minutes to load.
Doom classic is taking time as well from the SD. It's uninstalled and reinstalled it which seems to have sped it up but not by a lot.

Not sure if it's always been this way or my switch is on the way out ? Or anyone noticing the same thing ?

It's really taking momentum from me wanting to play games.

 

[Minsc]

Not sure myself, but regular SD cards are rather slow. The system has a perfect sleep/hibernate function, I would suggest playing one game at a time and then you don't need to load anymore, that's what I do for almost any handheld system capable of sleeping.

 

[jufonuk]

Yeah I get what you are saying. But ok some games the initial loading time is a ball ache. Also with games they have long loading regardless. It just slows down my enjoyment of the game.

Immortal redneck is one of the main offenders.

Maybe it's my switch storage is too full or it's always been this slow ?

 

[ReyBrujo]

Have you tried installing directly on internal memory? Or getting a new memory card? I have a U3 instead of a C10 and most load times are fine (don't have Doom to compare, though), longest ones are Bright Memory Infinite and Little Nightmares which take about 20-30 seconds to load after you lose a life. When the Switch memory card reader fails it fallbacks into "1-bit mode" which is, reading one bit at a time, which immensely decreases performance, however (I guess) you should have gotten an error before that.

 

[DonF]

Is the sd card old or new? I suppose old ones degrade and performance drops

 

[Ceadeus]

I feel like the eshop has gotten slower also on the og switch.

 

[jufonuk]

It's from both cartridge and SD memory. Just seems slower than it used to be.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Always been slow, Animal Crossing takes the piss to load.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Always been slow, Animal Crossing takes the piss to load.

Yes. Holy crap.
Especially since getting used to PS5 load times, it's painful.

 

[Deerock71]

Am eyeballing a 1TB express card for my Switch 2. The Switch OLED is definitely gathering dust at this point.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I'm willing to bet that you just don't remember it always being this way and since you've since experienced faster loading times since going back makes it seem even worse.

I recently pulled my PS4 Pro out so I could sell it (500M SE) and it was crazy how long everything took but it's just because I'm used to the PS5, Series X, and the Gen 4 NVMe in my PC.

 

[jufonuk]

I'm willing to bet that you just don't remember it always being this way and since you've since experienced faster loading times since going back makes it seem even worse.

I recently pulled my PS4 Pro out so I could sell it (500M SE) and it was crazy how long everything took but it's just because I'm used to the PS5, Series X, and the Gen 4 NVMe in my PC.

Tbh I've only one console the switch.
I just thought it was quicker to load than this.

 

[StereoVsn]

A faster MicroSD card could help a bit, but that may be like 10-20% difference max. It's just slow .

 

[SScorpio]

I'm willing to bet that you just don't remember it always being this way and since you've since experienced faster loading times since going back makes it seem even worse.

I recently pulled my PS4 Pro out so I could sell it (500M SE) and it was crazy how long everything took but it's just because I'm used to the PS5, Series X, and the Gen 4 NVMe in my PC.

A simple swap to any SATA SSD will fix a lot of that. Even the cheapest ones are more than enough to max out the PS4 or PS4 Pro's SATA interface. It's really seek times that are the killer.

I put an SSD in my PS3, and even in game XMB load all icons instantly and the whole system interface never lags.

 

[ReBurn]

A simple swap to any SATA SSD will fix a lot of that. Even the cheapest ones are more than enough to max out the PS4 or PS4 Pro's SATA interface. It's really seek times that are the killer.

I put an SSD in my PS3, and even in game XMB load all icons instantly and the whole system interface never lags.

An SSD in the PS3 and base PS4 don't really make that much of a difference from my experience. I have SATA SSD's in mine. The devices are still limited by the speed of their SATA controllers. Seek time is faster with the SSD and the menus are often snappier, but not really enough to be game changing when it comes to game loading times. I saw no real difference in game loading times. The only one where I've seen a tangible benefit to a SATA SSD is my PS4 Pro because it has a SATA III interface and the stock PS4 Pro HDD is much slower.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

A simple swap to any SATA SSD will fix a lot of that. Even the cheapest ones are more than enough to max out the PS4 or PS4 Pro's SATA interface. It's really seek times that are the killer.

I put an SSD in my PS3, and even in game XMB load all icons instantly and the whole system interface never lags.

Well, that's pointless as the point was, I was plugging it in to erase it to sell it, but yes it will help. It's still going to be much slower than what one would be used to nowadays though as PS4 is still bandwidth limited so even an SSD can't really be fully taken advantage of.

I have a SATA SSD in both of my PS3s and while menus are definitely better games are essentially the same (I'm sure there is a game out there that benefits slightly somewhere).

 

[Sticks]

Sell that shit

 

[AndrewRyan]

If the main system memory or card is almost full that could be a reason.