The ink does not stop flowing for the latest addition to the Pokémon series and although Scarlet and Violet seem to convince by their gameplay and their ideas, performance is clearly not there. In an attempt to save the day, players have been looking for the slightest optimization and it seems that certain options can save you the day.
Disable autosave
As strange as it may seem, disable autosave option might just save your Pokémon Scarlet and Violet experience. Indeed many players have observed and explained that disabling this option had somewhat increased FPS and especially the stability. Not enough to change the situation at all for all, but a certain gain in consistency in the figures, that’s already it.
Disabling autosave isn’t just useful for FPS though, many gamers explain never encountered any bugs shameful as we can meet them on social networks since they disabled this option. It remains to be seen if removing this option really changes anything or if it just has a good back, but the testimonials give hope that it really works.
Still no patch for Pokémon
Exited since almost a week and the victim of obvious technical problems, Pokémon Scarlet and Purple have desperately need a good patch by Game Freak. Whether it’s for the memory leaks already identified or the really handicapping bugs, the players will not be able to content themselves with deactivating an automatic save to solve the problems, especially since there are obviously some left even with the option removed.
Despite all this, it is currently radio silence complete on the Pokémon side, no information was given on a new patch. We remember a day one patch which had no impact on performance and since then nothing. We don’t even know if the issues were acknowledged by the teams or if fixes were planned. A little more communication from Game Freak or Nintendo would be really welcome.