Hacking SX OS slow when loading games

[JamisonFawkes]

Hi all, I own 2 SanDisk microSD (verified both, they're not fake): one is 64GB and the other one is 200GB.
I've both formatted them with guiformat with 4096 allocation unit size cause my switch has no support for exFat yet.
The problem is that the smaller card loads up the game way faster than the 200 GB one. It can require up to 10 seconds for a small game and about a minute for big games as zelda.
Can you help me?

 

[gamemasteru03]

Same thing happened to me with Ys. I put it on my 200gig and it takes like a entire miniute to load...

 

[Deleted User]

I have noticed too that FAT32 loads slower than exFAT. With exfat it's almost instant. So .. if you want a quick workaround, try to update with exfat support?

 

[comput3rus3r]

Hi all, I own 2 SanDisk microSD (verified both, they're not fake): one is 64GB and the other one is 200GB.
I've both formatted them with guiformat with 4096 allocation unit size cause my switch has no support for exFat yet.
The problem is that the smaller card loads up the game way faster than the 200 GB one. It can require up to 10 seconds for a small game and about a minute for big games as zelda.
Can you help me?

how full is your 200gb card? I think the less free space there is the longer it takes.

 

[JamisonFawkes]

how full is your 200gb card? I think the less free space there is the longer it takes.

honestly it's almost empty, I've just put 5-6 games on it and I have 140-150 GB of free space

 

[lukhart]

You mean in-game loading or the XCI loading on the launcher?

 

[JamisonFawkes]

You mean in-game loading or the XCI loading on the launcher?

I mean XCI loading in the launcher. Loading times in the games are not so fast anyway.

 

[guily6669]

Well I already tested 3 Sandisk Ultra A1 128GB and they all had speed problems, you might be getting it too and they were all manufactured in 2018...

Basically 1 M-SD, after moving some files to it, it got locked to ~20MB\s 4 ever while before moving any file it was giving ~80MB\s read. I quick formatted it to NTFS, eXfat and even fat 32 and nothing fixed it, not even a full complete format to Exfat 128KB...

2nd and 3rd replacementes had the same exact problem except every time I taken them out of my laptop SD port reader and put them back again they go back to full speed of ~80MB\s, but again after writing a few files they get again locked at ~20MB\s read until I remove them from the laptop, wait a bit and put them back again, but after a few things are written, locked to 20 again...

ps: Ended up paying more for a super slow crap Toshiba 128GB, however at least the speed is always normal no matter if I write files or not, but the IOPS are very miserable compared to the Sandisk A1 so app loading with too many files will be quite slow too .

 

[TurtlePowerrr]

Hi all, I own 2 SanDisk microSD (verified both, they're not fake): one is 64GB and the other one is 200GB.
I've both formatted them with guiformat with 4096 allocation unit size cause my switch has no support for exFat yet.
The problem is that the smaller card loads up the game way faster than the 200 GB one. It can require up to 10 seconds for a small game and about a minute for big games as zelda.
Can you help me?

Just update your switch so you can have exFat support for your cards, it's much better in the long run. Also, you won't have to break up the XCI files whenever you load them. Just update the switch bro!

 

[zaku]

sandisk ultra a1 sucks. get the ultra pro or switch to samsung evo plus

 

[TurtlePowerrr]

sandisk ultra a1 sucks. get the ultra pro or switch to samsung evo plus

Not really, my 200GB works like a dream, no loading issues whatsoever

 

[slaphappygamer]

sandisk ultra a1 sucks. get the ultra pro or switch to samsung evo plus

It’s ok that Samsung stole the code from sandisk. I think that’s why sandisk is cheaper. The Samsung ceo went to jail because if this. Also, I have a bridge to sell you.

 

[wurstpistole]

I mean XCI loading in the launcher. Loading times in the games are not so fast anyway.

I have a SanDisk 200gb and xci loading in the launcher / album is like instant.

 

[JamisonFawkes]

I'm reviving this thread cause I found a solution to the problem. Now small games just take 2-3 sec to load and big games like bayonetta 2 take 10 seconds instead of a minute.
When I formatted my microSD with guiformat the first time I selected 4096 as allocation unit size. To speed up loading what you have to do is choose 32768.
I've tried with 65536 but this way sx os just loads games that are not splitted.

 

[Migoma]

Or you can install the games as NSP they will load faster too

 

[TurtlePowerrr]

Or you can install the games as NSP they will load faster too

Are you suggesting that we can play NSP format through the SX OS interface, not just XCI files?

 

[Olmectron]

Are you suggesting that we can play NSP format through the SX OS interface, not just XCI files?

Only XCI from SX OS menu.

You can install NSP files to the Home Menu via DevMenu, and run them as actual bought digital games.

 

[alepman90]

Didn't have any issue except little nightmares which is the game to blame
also NSP is faster (loading the game or ingame loading)
i'm using exFat 256GB Samsung

 

[hippy dave]

Oh I didn't check what cluster size the Switch used when formatting the card itself from system settings - any ideas?

 

[TunaKetchup]

You really should just install big games like that onto your Switch

Helps with loading times and frees up space for other games on your SD card