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Skyrim: Taking FOREVER to Save


FierySwordswoman

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Alright, so 2 days ago at midnight I started making a new character. I saved towards the end of creation and logged off.

The next day, I finished creation and played for a good few hours straight. 7 ish?

Today, I continued only to find that the time it takes to save the game went from 2 seconds max to 25 seconds max. My load times are still from 2-3 seconds to instant depending on the newness of the area. The game boots fast as well.

 

My question: WHY. Why has the save time grown absolutely exponentially when nothing else has changed? I thought it was just my older characters that took a while to save, but his character is only like level 9! The save file size is almost 11 megabytes, compared to my old characters' 13 (1-2 week's worth) and 17 (3 months worth). I've never had a save file randomly bloat. I just assumed it was a side-effect of character progression, but this latest character shows it's something else entirely due to how freakishly smoothly it was running in the first marathon-session. (It also crashed while loading once today, but never yesterday. Maybe a coincidence since it was a ram-heavy moment.) A newly made character's save is slightly more than 10 megabytes for my loadout.

 

Is there a way around this absurd save time? I use to use my rotating quick-saves religiously, but now I only save when I really need to because it locks me out for so long.

 

Yeah, I have like 150 ish plugins, but literally nothing changed from the butter-smooth first session to the atrocious second. It's probably been like this for all of my characters, but I just never noticed that it wasn't because the save files grew a full one megabyte (huge, right?) over the course of a week because I've got some larger mods this time around, creating a more obvious transition.

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More than likely, it has to do with the Mods you have loaded, the location you may be in (due to Mods),

& it can even have this issue due to your System in general. However, I agree with @jim_uk & would say

to move this Post & include your Mods as well as your System Specs.

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Ah. I... didn't see that. Moving!

 

More than likely, it has to do with the Mods you have loaded, the location you may be in (due to Mods),

& it can even have this issue due to your System in general. However, I agree with @jim_uk & would say

to move this Post & include your Mods as well as your System Specs.

I can be in the middle of the busiest urban area in the game or inside of the smallest interior and it makes no difference.

Since I use Mod Organizer, I guess I could see how a vanilla game vs a modded game saves for me. Still doesn't explain the erratic save time behavior.

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