Epic Games has released new information on an upcoming update coming soon to Fortnite, addressing overall performance and improvements on Nintendo Switch. For this update, Epic Games has mentioned that they will bring GPU improvements on Switch including reduced hitches caused by garbage collection.

We’ve included the official overview of this update below, courtesy of Epic Games:

Switch Optimization (Battle Royale + Creative)

  • Moved to a more efficient memory allocator on Switch; significantly reducing crashes due to out of memory.
  • Reduced hitches on Switch caused by garbage collection.
  • Improved level streaming performance on Switch, speeding up building load times.
  • Increased texture pool size on Switch by 100MB to reduce issues with blurry textures.
  • GPU performance improvements for Switch – improved screen resolution.
  • Doubled the limit for the number of cosmetics that can be displayed on the screen as we now have more free memory.

We’re always excited to hear more improvements and additions for the Switch version of Fortnite, so let us know in the comments what your thoughts are on this new update? For all things Nintendo, stay tuned to NinMobileNews!

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