Realm Royale crashing on Nintendo Switch consoles? Here's an official workaround

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Realm Royale is a battle royale third person shooting game that is available on various platforms including PlayStation, GeForce Now, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo Switch.

However, the Nintendo Switch version of the game has had serious performance issues (particularly crashing) ever since it was released on consoles (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).

The afflicted players claim that the game crashes at random moments throughout a match. As a result, Realm Royale is no longer playable with friends or solo.

Gamers who have played this game for years and spent money on skins and mounts find it extremely frustrating that it is no longer enjoyable for them.

Anyone is experiencing the crash issue on console? It’s not too many, only 2-3 times within two days, but it’s already scaring me, Thinking about the crashing issue on paladins… kind of PTSD… I’m on switch, BTW, nice game still, quite some fun
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I want to play @RealmRoyale on my Nintendo Switch but it keeps crashing? Why is that? Does it work better on an OLED Switch? If not, is there a way to fix the crashes? HELP! HELP! HELP!
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Realm Royale is a spin-off of the game Paladins. It seems that the original game also experiences similar crashing issues on Switch (1,2,3,4).

Can the devs work on not having the game crash on the Switch every game. Or at least not penalize is for the loss. Just saying, it may help keep the number of players up. This latest update just caused chaos. Smmfh. I play Overwatch 2 and Fortnite with no crashes or internet issues so that can be used as a baseline.
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Thor, Realm Royale’s Game Designer/CM, has revealed that they’ve been working to address the performance and crashing issues on Switch for quite some time.

According to him, it is next to impossible to get the game running properly on the console.

Switch consoles have an Nvidia customized Tegra processor. This processor, even at the time of the console’s release in 2017, was outdated.

In the last five years, the consoles (including the new OLED edition) have not undergone a CPU/GPU improvement. The developers are having difficulty running a battle royale and optimizing it for relatively poor hardware.

He also confirmed that putting the game on the Switch’s internal drive seems to be helping most players.

Right now putting it on your internal drive seems to be helping the most.
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If the aforementioned workaround helped fix the Realm Royale crashing issue on Nintendo Switch, do let us know in the comments down below.

Also, we will be updating this space once the problem is resolved so stay tuned for more information.

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