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This is very much still an issue. Sitting here with my kids on their Switch Lites trying to play together, and they can’t. One started a game and the other sees him in his friends list. When he tries to join, it times out after a few minutes, and he has to try again. Sometimes it eventually goes through. More often they get frustrated and give up. They started calling this bug “the thing that makes everyone mad”. Please give this some attention. It’s a really bad experience.
You say you can’t reproduce this? Have you tried joining the same game on two switches, on the same network, where one of the switches is hosting? It doesn’t seem to affect joining a server; only joining a switch-hosted game.
I'm having the same issue. I know I tried the RTX beta when it came out but stopped after a while because I wanted to play with friends again. I heard it was just in the game now and after following the same steps above I also cannot get minecraft to recognize my GPU. Interestingly, upon rejoining the regular beta, it shows my system specs at the top of the window and it does list my GPU. but still won't let me enable RTX.
This is the same thing that happens to me, I have reported it to Java, but it only happens to me in 1.9, in 1.8 I'm fine. It happens everytime. Right before I spawn into the world. Sometimes I can see my item bar, but most of the time just the blue sky.
Yep.. Fresh install of Java.. Fresh install of Minecraft.. Updated drivers..
So.. I have absolutely NO idea why i cant play after 1.6.4..
And i doubt theres any servers that are well.. still on 1.6.4..
So.. Is this closed or.. ?
I'm running out of ideas right now and the actual support site.. No one has helped me..
Crash help doesnt help.. Its not listed
IRC group doesnt help.. no one is active
I added it. Hopefully it helps.
I figured out a resolution to this issue today!!! Switch players use two accounts to play Minecraft: a Microsoft Xbox account and a Nintendo account. Not only do the players need to be friends on their Xbox profiles, THEY NEED TO BE NINTENDO FRIENDS, TOO. You can find their friends list in their Switch profile. Without being friends on the Nintendo account, Minecraft will show the game as joinable, but it will fail to join and timeout 9/10 times. It'd be super helpful if the game made mention of this in the UI. I didn't even know the Switches had their own friends list.
I changed one other thing, and I'll list it here for completeness, but I don't think it's related to the resolution: My kids' Xbox gamertags used to match their Nintendo account sign-in names. I changed the Nintendo account names so that they wouldn't match the gamertags, re-logged in on their Switches, and did a hard reboot on the Switches.