10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Nintendo Switch

By Scott Tailford /

9. Reduce Frame Rate Issues On All Games

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When it comes to Zelda, its larger frame rate issues stem from the game struggling to process asset-heavy areas like dense forests or luscious expanses of waving grass and particle effects - something that is entirely game-related.

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That said, if you've noticed play be sporadically interrupted for a second or two out of nowhere, or are noticing frame rate 'hiccups' in that or any other game regardless of what's happening on screen, there is a solution.

Weirdly, the issue appears to be related to the system continually searching for wi-fi access points, even after it's established a connection.

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Being the Switch is continually doing this in the background of any game or process, you can remedy it (until Nintendo release a patch, anyway) by heading into your System Settings and turning off the 'Auto-Connect' option, or enabling 'Airplane Mode' when playing handheld.

Chances are, you're only going to be connecting to a couple of hotspots anyway (your home, perhaps a campus or office) so just hop between connections manually and you'll see the vast majority of these issues disappear.

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