Speed up saving?

[hucker75]

I've found many mods to increase the speed of loading a cell, fps, etc, but nothing to make saving a game faster. For some reason saving takes me anything from 0.5 to 7 seconds. Why the variation? Can it be improved with a mod?

[HeyYou]

Are you saving to an SSD, or Mechanical HDD?

[hucker75]

SSD, but not NVME.

Edited January 10, 2022 by hucker75

[HeyYou]

Is the drive getting full? To get best performance out of 'em, shouldn't fill 'em up more than about 70%.

 

For an SSD, that seems like an awful long time......

[hucker75]

60% full, running nice and fast. Got a good CPU, perhaps my GPU is required for saving? It's very old. Also I have a lot of mods, so there may be a lot to save. What confused me is why some saves are quick and some aren't. Not sure why the disk speed should be involved though, as obviously the OS will write cache it.

[HeyYou]

Hmmm.... Do you have long save times while playing, or just the exit save? On my rig, saving takes very little time at all. However, the exit save is rather random. Sometimes, the game will flash the 'Saving", and then be gone, other times, it can take several seconds to save, before the game actually exits. I have no clue why there is a difference there......

 

If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that it is a game engine thing, and there is nothing we can do for it....

[hucker75]

Mainly while playing, I only exit once a day (finally stopped almost all crashes!) and I've never seen that be slow. It does take ages if I save and exit to menu, but if I remember to exit to desktop it's quick. I just thought there may be some stupid design like the slow loading screens linked to FPS that could be bypassed, like I have a mod to do. Also if it can do it fast sometimes and not others, then it clearly doesn't have to take that long.

Edited January 11, 2022 by hucker75

[LarannKiar]

Do you have a "script heavy" load order? Or do you have mods that add a lot of objects to the game world?

 

Maybe you could try this:

 

- go to a small interior cell (a Player home is good)

 

- wait for 30 real time seconds

 

- create a hard save, then exit to the main menu

 

- load the save you created

 

- go to sleep or wait in a chair for 10 in-game hours

 

- press Esc, then wait a bit (10 seconds)

 

- create a hard save (you can overwrite the previous save)

Edited January 13, 2022 by LarannKiar

[hucker75]

I have hundreds of mods that add quests, locations, NPCs, etc. I use scrap everything or similar so combines are split.

 

Before I bother trying the above, why would it achieve anything? And what's so special about a "hard save"?

[Dreadshow]

My save time is also very long but I play Survival and use Survival Options mod to save anytime through a hot key. Autosave through a hotkey is also quick and sleep rest and level up save is fairly quick may be a second or 2 latency while a full save takes 5- 7 seconds.