Freezing and Saving Problems

[EliFoxFly]

Hello, I'm having two issues, but I'm putting them in one post in case they turn out to be related.

 

1. Game freezes for several seconds about every few minutes. It's always done that on occasion, but just in my last several hours of playing it's gotten much more frequent and the freezes are lasting longer. I'm afraid it'll become unplayable.

 

2. I can't save most of the time. Regular save, quicksave, autosave, saving via console, etc. every method just saves as a .tmp file. It's very hit or miss and I haven't been able to figure out what makes the difference on the rare occasions it saves as an actual .ess file. Sometimes deleting old saves (both from the save folder and then from the recycle bin) helps, but not always. You can imagine the difficulty of not being able to save 90% of the time.

 

I've been playing this character for many hours and none of this started happening until a day or so ago.

 

EDIT: Looking up what a normal file size should be, I'm realizing this is almost definitely save bloat. I never paid much attention to file sizes before but my current save is sitting at around 43mb. Yikes! What do I do about that??

 

Load order:

 

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Dawnguard.esm

3 3 HearthFires.esm

4 4 Dragonborn.esm

5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp

6 6 ApachiiHair.esm

7 7 ApachiiHairFemales.esm

8 8 ApachiiHairMales.esm

9 9 SkyTEST-RealisticAnimals&Predators.esm

10 a Campfire.esm

11 b RSkyrimChildren.esm

12 c TERAArmors.esm

13 d WM Flora Fixes.esp

14 e Apachii_DivineEleganceStore.esm

15 f AsharaMerchantNPC.esm

16 10 PlayerHomeHouse.esp

17 11 PlayerHomeHouseExt.esp

18 12 PlayerHomeShack.esp

19 13 ApachiiHairStyles.esp

20 14 JKs Skyrim.esp

21 15 Complete Alchemy & Cooking Overhaul.esp

22 16 Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp

23 17 Book Covers Skyrim.esp

24 18 RealisticWaterTwo.esp

25 19 Realistic Lighting.esp

26 1a Realistic Lighting Patcher.esp

27 1b HearthfireMultiKid.esp

28 1c RealShelter.esp

29 1d RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp

30 1e Immersive Sounds - Compendium.esp

31 1f ApachiiHairStylesELVES.esp

32 20 Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

33 21 hearthfireextended.esp

34 22 fmstables.esp

BrookviewFarm.esp

35 23 TheChoiceIsYours.esp

36 24 RealisticWaterTwo - Legendary.esp

37 25 Cloaks.esp

38 26 Tentapalooza.esp

39 27 Frostfall.esp

40 28 Tera Armor Level List.esp

41 29 goldleafponyfarm .esp

42 2a InteractiveWashBasinsCOMPLETE.esp

43 2b AmazingFollowerTweaks.esp

44 2c RDO - iAFT Patch.esp

45 2d Immersive Horses.esp

46 2e Craftable Horse Barding.esp

aaStrotiHouseDemo.esp

aaStrotiMillDemo.esp

woodhall.esp

Wickersetdemo.esp

bunker.esp

47 2f LookCloser.esp

48 30 Animations.esp

49 31 AsharaPrinceOfTheWoods.esp

50 32 Eli's Coffee Mod.esp

51 33 SkyUI.esp

52 34 TradeBarter.esp

53 35 DDD-BardsLute.esp

54 36 TheSumoJellyBeanDresses.esp

55 37 BuryTheDead.esp

56 38 CommonClothes.esp

57 39 QuieterDogs.esp

58 3a DovahBlingJewelryReplacer.esp

59 3b wizDynamicThings.esp

60 3c EmpyreanWarpaints.esp

61 3d FeedTheAnimals.esp

62 3e Travel Attire.esp

63 3f FNIS.esp

64 40 getSnowy.esp

65 41 RegnFlowerCrowns.esp

66 42 RegnPiercings.esp

67 43 zzMaidOutfits.esp

68 44 GDAttire.esp

69 45 HearthfireMultiKid_LastName.esp

70 46 Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

71 47 vImmersiveBeds.esp

72 48 Immersive Speechcraft.esp

73 49 JaxonzDroppableStatics.esp

74 4a JaxonzRenamer.esp

75 4b ImmersiveLoversComfort.esp

76 4c KS Hairdo's.esp

77 4d lanterns.esp

78 4e LockDoorPerk.esp

79 4f MainMenu.esp

80 50 marriagedynamicoutfits.esp

81 51 MercenaryTabard.esp

82 52 Modern Brawl Bug Fix.esp

83 53 Northgirl.esp

84 54 NPC Knockout Overhaul.esp

85 55 NosPiercedEarsEbony.esp

86 56 NosPiercedEarsGold.esp

87 57 NosPiercedEars.esp

88 58 Headtracking.esp

89 59 RaceMenu.esp

90 5a RaceMenuPlugin.esp

91 5b RSPatch.esp

92 5c dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

93 5d Rough Leather Armor.esp

94 5e RSChildren - Complete.esp

95 5f RUSTIC SOULGEMS - Unsorted.esp

96 60 SmartCast_1_0.esp

97 61 Spousetocustomhome.esp

98 62 TCIY-BCS Patch.esp

99 63 FS_UltimateAssortment.esp

100 64 UsefulDogs.esp

101 65 RGMsVanityMirror.esp

102 66 WetandCold.esp

103 67 WetandCold - Ashes.esp

104 68 XPMSE.esp

105 69 zzArmormashups.esp

106 6a CiriOutfit.esp

107 6b TW3_femaleArmors_zzjay.esp

108 6c TDNEquipableHorns.esp

109 6d Apachii_DivineEleganceStore_Patch.esp

ArchitectureTest.esp

SvindallEstateInt.esp

110 6e AK- Buyable Paintings and Pictures.esp

111 6f FishingInSkyrim.esp

112 70 Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

113 71 Painting In Skyrim.esp

CACO_AOS_Patch.esp

CACO_CoinReplacer_Patch.esp

CACO_ETaC_Patch.esp

CACO_SkyrimImmersiveCreatures_Patch.esp

CACO_SkyrimImmersiveCreatures+DLC2_Patch.esp

CACO_Wyrmstooth_Patch.esp

CACO_GrayCowl_Patch.esp

CACO_InvisibilityEyesFix_Patch.esp

CACO_MightyMagick_Patch.esp

CACO_RND_DestBottles_Patch.esp

114 72 CACO_RND_Patch.esp

115 73 CACO_UniqueBooze_Patch.esp

CACO_USKP_Patch.esp

116 74 CACO_USLEEP_Patch.esp

117 75 One With Nature - DG+DB SkyTEST.esp

118 76 _tck_SpellCrafting.esp

119 77 itsatrap!.esp

120 78 garm_white.esp

121 79 hubertfollower.esp

122 7a BFFAnimalCompanions.esp

123 7b My Home Is Your Home.esp

124 7c Imaginator BETA.esp

125 7d GreenWaterFix_Compatible.esp

126 7e RDO - USLEEP Patch.esp

127 7f MeekoHuskyEssential.esp

128 80 bm_SimpleAction.esp

129 81 JaxonzEnhGrab.esp

130 82 WestWindMisfit.esp

131 83 Immersive Horses - Hearthfire Patch.esp

132 84 RDO - Immersive Horses Patch.esp

133 85 Better Vampires.esp

134 86 BloodthirstVampireFeeding.esp

135 87 Cute Adoptable.esp

136 88 Dead Body Collision.esp

137 89 Dual Sheath Redux.esp

138 8a LycHairstyler.esp

139 8b ChateauVinSang.esp

140 8c MoreVampireEyes.esp

141 8d AsharaRomanticOutfit.esp

142 8e Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

143 8f Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp

(I'm sorry I don't know how to put that inside a spoiler thing. I'll edit it if someone tells me how.)

Edited August 14, 2017 by EliFoxFly

[EliFoxFly]

Alright so I looked up what to do about save bloat, some people said waiting 31 days in an interior. I was right by Redwater Den, so I went in there, sped up time super fast and just stood there as 31 days flew by in a couple minutes.

 

IMMEDIATE improvement--no more freezing and I can save reliably again! My first save after waiting jumped up to over 50mb, but then my next save was back down to what it was before, around 43mb. I still would like to know how to get it lower because I don't want bloat causing issues in the future.

[EliFoxFly]

Well now the freezing is back. Saving is alright. More CTDs than usual though.

[EliFoxFly]

Please help. I tried waiting 31 days and it didn't work this time. The freezing is now as bad as it was before, nearing unplayable.

[EliFoxFly]

I installed Crash Fixes and SKSE Plugin Preloader and set "UseOSAllocators=1" in CrashFixPlugin.ini. It seems to have helped a little bit; the freezing isn't *as bad* and it took longer to get a ctd. I'm going to look up how to create a bashed patch since I have so many mods and see if that helps. Again, any help would be very appreciated.

 

EDIT: havent made the bashed patch yet but I disabled papyrus logging in the ini (i had it on to see if i could pinpoint what's causing ctds but it wasn't helping anyway) and now I've been playing for a couple hours with no ctds and hardly any freezing! We'll see how long this lasts.

Edited August 18, 2017 by EliFoxFly