Nintendo Switch lags when autosaving, terrain not loading

This still happens on Beta 1.16.0.64

This still happens in the recent 1.14.60 hotfix, which I have found to be the laggiest Minecraft Bedrock update I have ever experienced.

This bug is still an issue in 1.16.1 and hasn't even changed since 1.14.60. And this not only affects multiplayer, but in single player as well

This is even more frustrating when the game lags, you are unable to control your character, and you are killed by a mob.  I'm on Windows 10.

I have SERIOUS lag issues on switch as well that I know for a fact are not related to my internet (fiber internet with 45+ down and up at any given time). Blocks will break randomly if being pushed with a piston, placed blocks will just not appear, the entire game will freeze and crash.  This all happened multiple times every single day.  If someone joins, it’ll freeze and crash.  If someone manages to get joined and it doesn’t crash us, it lags so bad that chunks won’t load and we can barely move.  I also have lag when the game is auto saving.  It auto saves nearly constantly.  

Still exists in 1.16.210.53 Beta and last release too. It's happening more often if world becomes large. Autosave (in large worlds) begins when you sprint and walking fast in explored area.

I've done something today that SEEMS to have fixed this problem; however, it isn't a workaround that anyone would want to take :'( I deleted permanently my save data from console and cloud. It seems to be related with the storage, I think (not sure) the game is accumulating the saved data of the different versions of the game. While other games (like Smash) take 100 - 300MB of storage, Minecraft was taking 1.8GB for no apparent reason, I mean, I only had 2 worlds and 4 texture packs. That is not enough to make 1.8GB. After I deleted it and make a new save data file, it takes only 577MB of space.

At the moment, I've been playing again in a local world and in airplane mode (to avoid the infinite loading screen issue) and everything seems to be good, without lag and with a smooth framerate again. I'll see how it works after some hours of play.

However, I DO NOT guarantee this works for everyone :'( so if anyone want to take the risk and do it, then this may be helpful. Always remember that, if you do this, you will lose all of your save data. You'll have to redownload your texture packs, but will lose your worlds permanently.

yeah i'm experiencing the same thing as well, I didn't realize at the time but am starting to think the auto save may be the reason, I'll have to dive deeper into this, I'm playing on the lowest graphics possible might i add

I also have to put up with this and it is indeed very annoying. Hope it gets fixed!

Can confirm in 1.17.0.

I can also add that it improved a SMALL bit. Was able to gather important 1.17 materials before it broke down again. Still a VERY SERIOUS problem the NEEDS to be fixed. My world is very large and thats when its thee worst. Its just too much stress for it. My phone and im sure laptops and crap don't either. Minecraft console just sucks. 

Still a very big issue on v1.17.10. Happens every time the game autosaves and even sometimes freezes the game during it. 

This is a really common occurrence for me. My world's around 120 mb at this point in time, and I've just had to put up with it for the most part. It usually lasts anywhere from 30 seconds - 2 minutes while autosaving. There have been some times where it freezes randomly (not during an autosave) and ultimately crashes. Not sure if it's connected at all.

These lag also occures on my xbox one

Just been playing Minecraft on Switch and this issue wasn't a thing until the 1.18.30 update dropped. Now this is going on when it didn't before, when I'm auto saving, the game is frozen, it kicks other users off the world, and I can no longer access the marketplace (which I realize is a sperate issue). I've done what I can to basic troubleshoot the issue (restarting the software, my device, logging out/in to my accounts, using different devices) and nothing has worked.

The game is now bordering unplayable on a world that isn't even 50gb save file. (All issues occur on newly generated maps as well)

This problem started again with the most recent update.. it's killed me twice now because the lag comes at the wrong times.. usually right in the middle of battle! Please fix asap.

I'm also having this since the 1.18.30 drop. Only when it autosaves. I keep dying due to the timing when all I'm trying to do is get my enchantment level to 30 so I can put a book on my armour but keep dropping to 7 due to this. Please fix. My daughter won't even ply now as it's too hard for her with all the autosave lags so keeps dying on her easy mode world too

I’m experiencing the same auto save lag and possible related issues since the 1.18.30 update.

Every time my game (single player, survival, bedrock edition, Nintendo switch) tries to autosave, it lags terribly! The game continues to run but the graphics completely freeze for 30-45 secs before resuming for 30 secs, and then freezing again for another 30-45 secs. It does this repetitively about 3 times per single auto save attempt. It makes the game nearly unplayable. If it happens when I’m nearby any hostile mobs then I end up dying by the time it unfreezes.

I don’t know if it’s related to the auto save lag, but I’m also experiencing complete crashing now and again of the entire game. The screen will freeze for 5-10mins before I have to close and restart the software. After closing but before restarting I’ll always get an error message. Very frustrating!

Also unsure if related to the lag issue, but broken blocks don’t disappear as they should and solid ones are also invisible. I’ve tried to keep playing despite this (before the game tries auto saving again) but so often I’ll mine a block and not see that I’ve opened up a hole to a pool of lava and inevitably burn to death. I’d had this issue before the 1.18.30 update, but nowhere near as badly as it has become since. Prior to 1.18.30 it only lasted for 2-3 secs and happened very rarely, but now it lasts for 3-5mins and on about half the blocks I mine.

anyone else experiencing these bugs together too?

DunkDoNuts, everything you've explained I'm experiencing as well, its rendering the game unplayable, it gets really bad when you have 2 players playing on the same world even on a local network.
I've tried to change the rendering distance, turn off all the additional settings like particles and fancy graphics, but the still the same results.
I raised a case and Mojang has closed it as a duplicate of MCPE-40976, so hopefully they'll be looking into this.

Note: this is still an issue with version 1.19.30.

This issue was fixed by 1.18.33, right? I had horrible lag up until then, and after that Hotfix it disappeared and I haven't seen anything since then, so I don't know why people are still having issues.

@jbomb01, I’m guessing there is either a regression (i.e. the bug slipped back in) or there is a new bug with similar enough results that this ticket was reopened because it sounded similar to what people are experiencing.

I know my worlds are unplayable right now 😞

I've been dealing with this bug for almost 2 years now on one of my older Switch worlds. Me and my girlfriend had been working on this world for so long and it's now up to 130 mbs. That's what I think is causing all these issues is that the world gets so big and doesn't know how to resolve all that excess data that it starts collapsing under the weight of all those variables... Either way I'm sad because now it's abandoned because it's gotten so unplayable that it just isn't worth the headache anymore despite being our favorite world. I'm keeping the save around though just in case it gets resolved one day. Fingers crossed.

Hi,

I am a father of 3 boys and we all love minecraft and often play it together in a local game using 3 switch lites and one normal switch. As a professional software developer I know that the switch itself is not a high performant console and that game studios have to make a lot of compromises in order to port their games to this platform.

Long story short: We are facing exactly this issue described by @Ismael, but only for a short time. It seems as if the last patches make things worse and had increased the lagging, respectively the hanging.

Here is a short description about the things that I have noticed (maybe they are helpful):

• few weeks ago I had downloaded some free texture packs from the market place. This was the moment as the problem started on the normal switch. Maybe this was a random circumstance, but when I removed them and cleared the market place cache, the period of the lagging significantly decreased. Also clearing of the market place cache on the switch lites decreases the lagging period

• We are facing the issue not only in our older save games (~65MB) as @@unknown described too, but also in new ones that are used as local multiplayer games.

• The issue that new local player games are hanging and lagging is new to us. At the beginning of this year I would suppose that everything worked fine. So it seems to me that one of the last patches of 1.19 (currently we have version 1.19.62) make things more worse

We are great fans of this game. And we have spent a lot of time and have build many cool worlds that mean a lot to us and which are currently unplayable ... unfortunately 😞

When all issues relates to the low performance of the switch platform in addition with the auto-save function, would it not be the easiest first workarround to add a switch for activating/deactivating the auto-save function to the bedrock version too? Let the users make the decision to take the risk to loose their last made effort when not saving manually instead of realizing well-saved but unplayable worlds 😞