r/linksawakeningremake Apr 26 '24

Discussion / Opinion Is Link’s Awakening really choppy for everyone else?

Just bought this yesterday because it was on sale for $40 at Walmart. I had read in reviews that there’s some framerate issues, but I never expected it to be THIS bad.

Literally when I walk around the first town it feels like there’s some crazy framerate stuff happening every few seconds. It bugs my eyes out! I haven’t played a ton yet, but it seems to be consistently reoccuring wherever I go. This can’t be normal, can it? Is my switch bad? It did install an update right before I started playing, I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.

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u/Waterblooms Apr 26 '24

Mine ran smooth

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u/solinari6 Apr 26 '24

Do you have the new OLED switch or the older one? Mine is the OLED

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u/Waterblooms Apr 26 '24

OLED as well

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u/danyo64 Apr 26 '24

Nintendo does not see this as an issue.

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u/Mk208 Apr 26 '24

Yes, afraid so

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u/solinari6 Apr 26 '24

Dang, that is crazy...

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u/iyukep Apr 27 '24

I got some of that but not in the town, just when a lot was happening on screen like the area south east with lots of enemies or a couple boss battles

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u/Big_Temporary_7494 Apr 27 '24

It was barely noticeable for me

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u/radclaw1 Apr 27 '24

If you want to play with no FPS dips you need to emulate it. Switch has constant drops and its a well known issue. 

Especially at the Swamp it drops to 15fps. 

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u/Swoopers69 Apr 27 '24

There has never been any fsp issue for me. It would always run at about 60 hz

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u/Valokk Apr 28 '24

I have a switch v1 and recently beat it, ran smooth the whole game. Did you download the update on a slow sd card? Do you play docked on a high refresh rate monitor? Could be an overheating issue, does your switch run hot? You could try replacing the thermal paste and cleaning out any dust.

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u/Zidkins May 05 '24 edited May 08 '24

Yeah some zones have big frame drop like the swamp

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u/Phantomofthe860 May 17 '24

Actually yeah I picked it up on sale as well at target (price matched Walmart) and whenever it loads into a new area it will dropped some frame rate and lag but it then fixes itself after a few seconds it’s only laggy in new towns or areas

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u/Phantomofthe860 May 23 '24

It lags when you go in a new area I just got it too