Did you get used to bad frame rates?

[Moritz]

I have one area on my island where the frame rate is just awful.
I've tried everything I can to fix it.

I've moved buildings.
Destroyed areas. Removed custom designs. Took away the river. Moved the shops.
Nothing worked.

Its driving me crazy, but I love my island so much.
Its exactly how I want it.

Its not even cluttered or anything.
I have one area far away from where the frame rate issue is that has a lot of trees and flowers, but that was one area I destroyed (and then remade after) and that didn't fix it.

In hand held its perfect.
Frame rate is fully stable.

I've decided I'm going to try and stick it out, and pray for a switch pro that can actually handle this stupid game.

Has anyone had a similar problem and how did you adjust?

 

[Croconaw]

I haven’t experienced this, but my experience playing has strictly been with a Switch Lite. It hasn’t been with the console or the console in hand held mode. I’m not sure if that makes much of a difference.

 

[zarf]

I used to have a basketball court that wasn't even heavily decorated but caused framerate drops. I ended up destroying it cus it just made me sad seeing my character slow down every time I ran by. The only other problematic area is near resident services, and I'm assuming it's because lots of villagers like to gather there... so it's out of my control. Also my framerate just fluctuates like crazy on windy days so I've learnt to avoid them. Like you said, the framerate doesn't appear to be so bad on handheld mode so that's how I usually play the game now.

 

[Moritz]

I haven’t experienced this, but my experience playing has strictly been with a Switch Lite. It hasn’t been with the console or the console in hand held mode. I’m not sure if that makes much of a difference.

Stupidly being undocked makes the game run a lot better.

When docked its able to show things in a higher quality. So it does.
And that is great when there aren't many items.
But with a complete island, there are so many things it tries to render, that it can't handle it.

But undocked or switch lite, doesn't try to make them high res, so can handle a lot more items.

Of course not even undocked can handle the extremely decorated islands.

 

[nightglow]

I noticed it heavily when I was playing on my Switch Lite after multiple updates came and it didn't seem to matter what I had out and about. It was one the left side of my island on the beach area closer to the back. I could have nothing there and the frame rate still dropped... alot.
...

Alot of people didn't complain about lag in acnh until alot of updates were thrown at us. And I don't really think it was all about décor causing it. There have been complaints about lag from people who didn't put much on their island to begin with and kinda kept it the same while getting updates, and they noticed the change.

I did read around online on what could cause the frame rate drops or even lag when it gets that bad. Some suggestions have been about water, items with alot of details, and multiple items near each other that move alot in the wind like trees or flowers. It is odd how you mention that it runs better in handheld than docked. I would have guessed docked would run better.

 

[Moritz]

I noticed it heavily when I was playing on my Switch Lite after multiple updates came and it didn't seem to matter what I had out and about. It was one the left side of my island on the beach area closer to the back. I could have nothing there and the frame rate still dropped... alot.

I still have a tad while on my pc with a different map, but I am also at the beginning of the game. However I do have alot of bugs lying around the island which can case frame rate drops. In general, my pc runs it alot better that my switch lite did and it actually feels playable now. However there are some other details about that method that effect the outcome vs running it on the Switch. But I do wonder if it has something to do with the game itself and not just the system it is being ran on since for me, it has a drop in the same location of the map with a different save file.

Alot of people didn't complain about lag in acnh until alot of updates were thrown at us. And I don't really think it was all about décor causing it. There have been complaints about lag from people who didn't put much on their island to begin with and kinda kept it the same while getting updates, and they noticed the change.

I did read around online on what could cause the frame rate drops or even lag when it gets that bad. Some suggestions have been about water, items with alot of details, and multiple items near each other that move alot in the wind like trees or flowers. It is odd how you mention that it runs better in handheld than docked. I would have guessed docked would run better.

So the purple area is where I have trees and flowers. Around the ponds are trees and flowers.
Removing them did nothing

The blue is where I have a custom design

Removing it did not help.

Those are the only two areas with much of anything going on.

The spot it happens? Red on map

Yeah im so active there...

If the game could tell us where the issue was it would be great.
Because I'm clueless

 

[Belle T]

I have noticed a very occasional slight decrease when going to the commercial district on my island. I've never been able to work out what causes it, because it's a fairly rare occurence.

The framerate absolutely tanks when designing homes during the music festival though. To unacceptable degrees.

 

[-Mars-]

I don't know if my island has a specific area where it lags but I noticed more lag after the 2.0 update regardless if there was decorations and the like (on everyone's island I visit too)
I have no clue what causes the lag
this is an interesting thread though

 

[Rosch]

Every time there's a fishing tourney, bug-off, holidays, or any day when my villagers have decided to gather on the plaza for no apparent reason, I experience bad frame rates

Not sure if its any different when it's docked, but I play handheld most of the time and I've gotten used to it. The worst framerate drop I ever experienced was back when I TT'd and my island was swallowed by weeds and flowers.

 

[kayleee]

I've experienced this; there is one area of my island that is much worse than the rest, even though my island is relatively evenly decorated (and nowhere is super cluttered). I've tried reworking the area several times and it doesn't seem to help, so I've kinda just given up and don't run through that area much at this point lol. I play mostly in handheld and I experience it still which is frustrating.

 

[Moonlight.]

i haven't really experienced it much on my island yet (with the exception of being on the paradise island during the music festivals) but wow is visiting dream addresses an absolute nightmare a majority of the time, there's some genuinely wonderful islands i'd love to wander around in but the switch's frame rate has a completely different idea (and that's ignoring the hideous item pop-in that occurs on heavily decorated islands)

a switch pro really can't come soon enough... :/

 

[MarzipanDragyn]

Used to? I still do

It only really happens in areas with a lot of furniture or path designs, though; even then, it only really seems to get bad when I'm playing with the switch in the dock instead of playing handheld. The plaza I've made between Resident Services, Nook's Cranny, and the Able Sisters sees the worst of it, as well as the tree-lined street leading out from the airport.

I've gotten used to it by now; I'm just happy it doesn't crash on me!

 

[moonshi]

I used to (I think) around my veggie garden. It's usually more noticeable if I run, otherwise it's not too bad. I haven't notice it recently. It could be because I've been playing it in handheld mode. It was very noticeable on the big screen.

I'm going to suck it up since I don't want to change it. I do believe it was OK before the update.

 

[MiraForceOne]

Not an issue when you dump your switch onto PC and play on Yuzu or Ryujinx. You need a current gaming PC though (GTX 1660 and Ryzen 5 3600X should do the trick)

 

[michito]

Started playing ACNH again awhile ago after abandoning it last year and I didn't remember the frame lag to be that bad :_3
As others have pointed out, it maaay be the 2.0 update, before it the game barely lagged outside a super cluttered zone I used to have, but now it lags on pretty much the whole town despite not having many furniture/plants around (I'm too lazy to decorate lol)
Luckly my eyes got used to the bad frame rate pretty fast and now I don't notice it too much, but they should've optimized the game more.

 

[Bluebellie]

I have no issues with frame rates, which is weird because my island is almost complete, and I have many items all throughout. I only play handheld, so i wouldnt know if I have issues docked. I heard frame rate issues are less handheld though, so that may be why I'm not seeing them. I also dont have alot of waterfalls and such (which I heard causes issues as well).

 

[Flicky]

The marketplace on my island is very laggy, regardless of if it's docked or not. Since it's one of three areas that my villagers never roam around, I just avoid going there unless I want to just casually run through my island.

I've also noticed another couple of areas became laggy after I put a pathway underneath my custom paths so they'd show up on the map. Thankfully, I've already completed the main Nook Mile achievements, so I don't need to explore like I used to. In a way, I think that's why I chose to decorate my island so much later.

 

[Jhine7]

I never really got used to it, but I only really had one place on my island where it would get laggy. I usually just avoided that area anyway since I had no reason going over there anymore.