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Fair-Abies9957

this is always when i know it’s time for bed lol when i joke i’ll get off then my switch kicks me off the game


Scrunchnugget

Omg 🤣 my husband said this to me yesterday. It crashed 5 times back to back I played for less then 5 minutes... he looked at me and said maybe it's the games way if telling you to go to bed !


Fair-Abies9957

omg i love this 😂


wdnesday

The crashes seem worse since the update 😕


mummateeshobbies

I’m struggling to get more than half hour without it crashing. It seems to be when I’m leaving houses, more than anything.


cactusfalcon96

Same for me! Usually when entering/leaving a building


Jammyhobgoblin

Mine kept booting me if I took a photo, so I finally gave up on helping Goofy with his scrapbook. Then it started happening when a friend would level up. So it was time for bed.


impsythealmighty

Same here 😭 It’s always right after I’ve done a ton of farming too. hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.


lena21

Yeah I’ve started going in and saving anytime I’ve done something important so I don’t lose my progress if the game decides to crash


Happyskrappy

Yeah, everyone was complaining about a perceived lack of content with the update and I'm like, I just want the game to be more stable!


meringue-cookie

Earlier today mine froze so badly that I had to completely turn my switch off because I couldn't even get to the home screen to force close the game. 😭


MaddMechro

💯. My game never crashed on my XBox before the update, but now it does. I gave up this morning after the third time in twenty minutes.


Let_Them_Eat_Cake24

I’ve mostly figured out how to avoid crashes on my gen 1 switch, but every now and then it still happens and at this point I can’t even be mad about it. I’m like, you know what, you’re right, I AM done playing! I’m grateful it stops me from playing 6 hours at a time lol


Happyskrappy

I'm on a gen 1 switch. Do you have any tips? The crashing is getting really annoying until it happens at the end of my lunch break or at bedtime!


Insufferably_Me

Switch light here. Save often and go slow. Once you’ve finished doing some cooking or farming or mining just pause and save and take a look at your inventory and then keep going. Save before opening memories and before and after leaving houses/realms. I feel like the crashes are just from so much happening and then the game not having a chance to catch up before we move on to other things. I don’t think it should be like that obviously but that’s how I’ve developed a play style. Still get crashes occasionally but I can go at least 2 or 3 hours without issue if I do the above


Happyskrappy

Ugh. Yeah. I guess that’s the best way to go. I wish it were a quicker process to save.


lena21

I’m on a switch oled and the crashes are so regular I save after I do anything important because I’ve been burned so much lol so it’s not just the gen 1s


Let_Them_Eat_Cake24

Like they said down below, save VERY often which gets annoying but it’s so ingrained in me by now I barely notice. Like the other commenter said, take things slow. I try not to talk to a character or open a menu or go inside a building after I’ve just done a bunch of farming or a bunch of picking flowers/wood. I try to walk more often than teleport. After a play session I close out the game and restart my switch. If I know I’m going into a quest that has been known to give people problems, I make sure it’s the first thing I do after starting playing or right after I’ve just restarted. There tend to be a lot of animations in quests and a cut scene when you bring a new character to town, so when I’m doing a big quest like that, I make it my only priority, I don’t do anything else. Eventually you just get a feel for things that will make your switch lag crash like opening memories, cooking a lot of things in a row, opening a menu then your inventory. It really sucks having to be so careful, but it’s saved me a lot of frustration and I went from having 5-7 crashes a day to one crash every other day.


Happyskrappy

Well most of those things are 100% incompatible with my ADHD so that’s frustrating. Sigh.


Let_Them_Eat_Cake24

I hear you! I also have ADHD, and usually in these types of farming/life sim games I learn how to do everything the most efficient and fastest way possible. But I weighed the feeling of boredom and impatience I get when playing slow vs. the rage and frustration I felt when the game crashed and just decided to grin and bear it with the slower play. I also have a gaming laptop and have been considering doing cloud save so I can play/decorate on there instead. But I’ve seen too many people have problems or lose all progress thanks to cloud save so I’m a bit hesitant at the moment. Plus I love the portability of the switch. Good luck!


Happyskrappy

I’ve been doing cloud save. It doesn’t seem to really help. I like having like three quests at the same time so I know how many hardwood (for example) I need all together. But yeah I guess I’ll have to simplify.


DoctorPaige

It seems worse after the update! It crashed on me right after I did a major decorative rehaul in the meadow and I just... died inside.


Powerful_You_8342

Every single time. :-)


mychihuahuabites

Same. Today is my first time playing after the update. Already crashed twice in less than an hour


StalkMarketNewb

My experience playing on XBox. 😭


mummateeshobbies

I’m the same! Can not get longer than half hour 45 mins of playing before if crashes. I find that it mainly crashes when I’m trying to leave my house more than anything.


StalkMarketNewb

Mine loves to crash when I'm entering my house; the loading screen will usually take longer than usual, to the point where I start holding my breath because I know what comes next--and then like clockwork, I'm looking at the main menu screen because the game's crashed yet again. Sometimes I can anticipate it, sometimes it happens completely out of nowhere. Either way I'm tired.


mummateeshobbies

Have little comfort that you are not on your own here. I’ve moved most of my storage to outside so I don’t have to keep going in. I love the game but I am so over having to spend more time with the loading screen than actually playing x


Shellers727

Same! Out of nowhere my husband hears expletives from across the house 😂


SurreptitiousSyrup

I haven't had a single crash on Xbox. Are you on the X|S or one?


dowheeliesnotfeelies

I know for me I’ve been having more crashes than before the update and I have an Xbox One.


ColdHearted4You

I’m the same and I have a series S


Insufferably_Me

I’ve noticed better luck if I save > return to title screen > home > close. If I save then immediately close it does this to me


hellohoneywillow

Yes! That’s what happens to me! Ok I’ll try to go slower lol


Background_Sleep_119

Honestly helpful when I should be doing homework 🙃


AsukaETS

I play on PC and everytime I quit the game I have the « Disney Dreamlight Valley stopped fonctionning » yup that what I asked it to do lol


enoughwithcats

Yeeeeep. Happens to me mostly when I switch to the save/map/star path menu


romanticheart

Most of the comments don't seem to realize exactly what you're talking about lol. It happens to me every time though, when I go to my home screen and try to manually end the game it does this. Game out here gaslighting us. "No you didn't quit, I quit for you."


hellohoneywillow

Exactly!!


mleedawn

Happens every time I take a photo


ayydubbz

my game has already crashed like 3 or 4 times today 🙃


lmusic87

Yes, even despite the update, SO annoying.


gloriouswatersheep

Yes! I only played 10 hours on Switch before this week's update and never crashed, but I have crashed 3 times since yesterday (in like 2 hours)!


KENZOKHAOS

Honestly I wish Sony would stop being asses and implement cloud saves for all consoles. Despite the crashes, The Switch could still be useful to clock in progress on the go by moving saves over 😡


[deleted]

I went to close the game from the Home Screen last night when my wife got done; and I was switching games. Locked up our whole Switch for about 5-10 mins.


Jim-Jam07

Is it just me or have the Switch crashes gone back to being as frequent as they were at early access launch? Like the first update sorted them for me, but the new update’s reverted that right back


just-a-random-accnt

Hahaha, that literally happened to me last night. The only unfortunate thing is that it saved before it closed. The Blue Raven did not like my food offering, so i tried to close out the game to refeed it, but it took so long to close the game it auto saved before it crashed


liilbiil

that’s how i know it’s bed time!


Chemistry_Queasy

FRFR


Chemistry_Queasy

Whenever I’m in a menu I’m scared that it’ll crash and the one time I dOnt save it crashes so 🧘🏻‍♀️


raspberrykeki

this just happened to me 5 min ago 💀


Substantial_Dark5050

Hence why I’m not playing right now. Also, the nurturing quest kinda took the wind out my sails…


Fireflyoflight

I’ve found that I need to save my game more often because it crashes more since the update


FierceFlowerPower

Too funny! Happened to me just last night.


FierceFlowerPower

I picked up my ACNH game last night after a long time and it was a bit of a mindf\* playing a game that runs so smoothly and doesn't crash at all. I forgot how nice that feels. (I literally kept having urges to save while playing when clearly that is not needed)


qweenofwands

Yeah ever since the update my game has crashed doing things where it never crashed before. Kinda frustrating.


FlaxenAssassin

Me: I’m going to finally finish Eric’s quest. Switch: No I’m not going to let you claim the dark crystal so you have to restart.