Autosaves / Loading screens take AGES. Why ?

[TheLazerMachete]

Hi everyone. I started to mod my game on my poor laptop and after a few days of adjustments i managed to get a good looking game and around 20 fps everywhere ( although i had to completely erase grass from my game ). Cool for me. But i experience very long loading screens. I suspect the autosave to take ages because once or twice, the paused menu autosave took infinite time to process and i had to leave the game.

 

What could do that ? The amount of mod ? A mod in particular ? I noticed reshade fx made FPS drop so each time i start the game i turn it off with Num LK key. Does it still work and make all this commotion anyway ? I dont know.

 

Long loading doesnt happen when i load the save, it's only when i travel / enter a shop / exit the shop... very annoying. Thanks in advance to anyone who answer !

 

Here is my load order to help you help me figure it all out ( sorted by LOOT ) :

 

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

Dawnguard.esm

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

HearthFires.esm

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

Dragonborn.esm

Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

ApachiiHair.esm

JSwords.esm

VanillaReducedTextures.esp

EnhancedLightandFX.esp

ELFX - Exteriors.esp

ELFX - Dawnguard.esp

ELFX - Dragonborn.esp

Purity.esp

ELFXEnhancer.esp

RaceMenu.esp

RaceMenuPlugin.esp

ColorfulLightsNoShadows.esp

Insignificant Object Remover.esp

SFO - Expanded Diversity.esp

SFO - Dragonborn.esp

SkyUI.esp

RaceMenuMorphsCBBE.esp

CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp

Immersive Weapons.esp

Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

JSwordsDistributionBalancePlugin.esp

Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

UniqueBows.esp

Equipping Overhaul.esp

HDTPhysicsWeaponSling.esp

Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

RaceMenuPluginXPMSE.esp

HBetterBows.esp

 

And if you don't see any particular problem there, my config :

 

CPU Processor : Intel Pentium CPU B960 @ 2.20 GHZ x2

Total MEmory : 7968MB

Video Card : Nvidia GeForce610M

Total VRAM : 2048MB

Edited June 23, 2015 by TheLazerMachete

[TheLazerMachete]

Yeah it's definetly the autosave.

 

When i disable it for travelling loading screen lasts 3 sec.

When enabled it can go up to 2 minutes just to get out / in dragonreach in whiterun.

 

I m just realizing what it means for my future gameplay to not have any autosaves... I'm scared lol.

[Oubliette]

Get used to it. Autosaves are not, and have never been, particularly good or reliable with TES games. They tend to grab a bunch of information and miss out on other vital bits that can lead to save game corruption and problems in the long haul. Autosaves are, at their very best, an emergency measure for use as a last resort when you need to go back several saves because of an issue. Hard saves are really the wiser way to go to prevent some (not all, never all) problems that crop up.

[vram1974]

Get into the habit of manual saves. Two reasons for this:

 

1. Autosaves overwrite previous information

2. Manual saves provides a chronological timeline to return to stable versions of your game if anything ever goes wrong.

 

It's not the end of the world to manually save either. Esc-->save game. Takes 2 seconds.

[cdcooley]

Playing without autosaves will take discipline, but if they really are taking that long then you'll just have to make sure you pause to make manual saves fairly regularly.

 

Autosaves are perfectly reliable in Skyrim and are technically no different than "manual" saves (except that there are limited number of them). In earlier TES games there may have been differences, but not for Skyrim. Autosaves do sometimes (very rarely) fail to complete but in those cases the game will recognize that and refuse to use them.

 

Savegame corruption has nothing to do with how saves are made, it's about how they get loaded. If you want a truly stable experience never load a saved game without completely restarting the game. Don't use QuickLoad (but QuickSave is fine), quit the game if you die instead of letting it automatically reload your last save, and always quit to the desktop never to the main menu. Savegame corruption is created when you load a saved game over top of a game in progress. Skyrim (like all of the earlier TES games) doesn't reset everything in memory that is should if you try to use QuickLoad, auto-reloads, or simply drop back to the main menu.

[TheLazerMachete]

After a few days playing with manual saving i get used to it indeed. I play with gamepad. It's Start-LT-A-Down-A. Takes two seconds. But yeah now i tend to save every 30 sec haha.

 

Concerning Reshade, when you deactivate it with hotkey ingame it still have an impact on smoothness. I erased DLLs to turn it completely off and i gained maybe 10 FPS. Thanks for replies folks.