DirebearCoat Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago I've read where people have told others to "go to a previous save game" to undo a lot of problems that have come up. However, in my mind, all of those saves seem like it would take up a lot of hard drive (or SSD) space on your PC (or XBox, etc). So, I "Save Over This Game," instead of creating a "New Save." I realize that means that I can't go back to a particular spot to undo some mistake, but I want to save disk space. Am I saving hard drive space by doing that, or am I just making one ginormous save file instead of a bunch of smaller save files and not really saving any space on my drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago I don't think that you are creating a monster file, but here's what I do: I make a shortcut to the game save folder on the desktop, and periodically move older saves to a folder (can be on a different drive). You should at least keep the last five saves or so untouched, but move all older saves to the backup folder ( I usually title the folder w/the character's name). After you are sure that you do not need any of the saves, you could delete 4 of every 5, or 9 of every 10, compact them with 7zip or similar, and still have a set of saves to help you recover a lengthy playthrough. They could be moved to an external flash drive, if necessary, but I haven't had the best of luck WRT their reliability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger808 Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago It really isn’t all that memory intensive to leave saved files for a week or two just to be sure you didn’t glitch your game. Heck, when I was new to gaming I didn’t realize they were saved to my files, and I thought deleting them in game was all I needed to do, imagine my surprise when I finally looked and saw hundreds of saves from years ago. My SSD drive is luckily large enough that it still has considerable space, even with TES, Cyberpunk, Fallout 3 and 4, Starfield, and all their mods and at least 7 other games on it I had to deactivate Cloud saves though, it kept reloading old deleted saves onto my drive every time I logged in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorrp10 Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago A typical save is only a few megabytes. Considering current prices of ssd drives (like $250 for a 4TB), you really should not have to worry. You can have several thousand saves, and they will still take up way less than 100Gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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