Tutorial 4 Small Tips To Make Your 3DS Faster (if you have problems)

[ErixSan]

Since I read some owners of the console are having performance problems, I would like to teach you a few tips to make it faster. This works mostly for those with a big digital collection:

1. Don't use slow SD cards
Every time you turn on your console, it will read all your games in order to show them in the HOME menu. If you use a slow SD card (usually one of Class 2 or 4), it will be a slow process

2. Reached over 32 GB? Two SD cards instead of one
This will help you for two reasons: the console will need to load less items and you can keep your SD card at NTFS, which is way better than FAT 32 (needed to use 32+ GB cards)

3. Don't use folders
This one is easier to follow, since you need to not create folders. Why?
When you pause a game with the Home Button, those folders can make the console lag a little.

4. Don't try the console's new features until the next update
Sometimes those new features can have a bug or two, or they aren't fully optimized, so waiting the next update is a great idea.

 

[2071]

Great tips though it might be quite hard to do the last one because many people want to try the new features because it is always something to be excited about . But a quick question for this :

1. Don't use slow SD cards
Every time you turn on your console, it will read all your games in order to show them in the HOME menu. If you use a slow SD card (usually one of Class 2 or 4), it will be a slow process

How do I find out what class is my SD card ? I think that I use a Kingston micro SD in another Kingston hardware SD Adapter . and also : Is is better to use Micro SD's in Adapters or just a SD card ?

 

[18]

Great tips though it might be quite hard to do the last one because many people want to try the new features because it is always something to be excited about . But a quick question for this :
How do I find out what class is my SD card ? I think that I use a Kingston micro SD in another Kingston hardware SD Adapter . and also : Is is better to use Micro SD's in Adapters or just a SD card ?

It's usually written on the wrapping you buy the SD card in, especially on Kingston ones. The microSD I have has it written on the card as well.

Adapter+MicroSD is fine, it works just as well as an SD card for me.

 

[2071]

It's usually written on the wrapping you buy the SD card in, especially on Kingston ones. The microSD I have has it written on the card as well.

Adapter+MicroSD is fine, it works just as well as an SD card for me.

Thanks !

 

[3391]

I heard some problems can occur when using multiple SD cards. So I'm not sure I'll do that.

Great tips! I can't destroy my beautiful organized folders though ;-; they make my home screen neat...

 

[PersonSP]

I use the sd that came with the system, that should be fine right? And I kind of like those folders ;-;

 

[18]

I use the sd that came with the system, that should be fine right? And I kind of like those folders ;-;

Yes, it's small in terms of capacity but good in terms of speed.
Progressively larger cards take longer to load, hence 16GB and 32GB SD cards are useless if they are below Class 8.

The folders didn't make much difference to me, just a slight home menu lag. I don't use them anymore except for one (in which I keep Applications like Nintendo 3DS Sound, Camera, Flipnote etc.) though.

 

[PersonSP]

Yes, it's small in terms of capacity but good in terms of speed.
Progressively larger cards take longer to load, hence 16GB and 32GB SD cards are useless if they are below Class 8.

The folders didn't make much difference to me, just a slight home menu lag. I don't use them anymore except for one (in which I keep Applications like Nintendo 3DS Sound, Camera, Flipnote etc.) though.

Okay, thanks ^.^

 

[Tyrone]

thanks! mine has been locking up quite a bit and this has stopped the most of the lag whenever i started up my 3ds i had to wait like 1 minute for the lag to stop and i have like 20 folders made for the future XD