How to fix a bloated savefile !

[lillemakken]

Hello!

 

My savefiles are all on 130 megabyte. How do I "clean" up all the size consuming items and rubble lying around or how do I fix such bloated files?

 

I downloaded "NoBoringSleepWaitMenu" which lets me wait/sleep for 31 days consecutively and didn't work.

Also downloaded Possessive Corpses, installed but didn't fix itself either or am I supposed to do something more with it?

 

Need some good tips on how to fix this, as I'm having these occasional freezes every 30 seconds or something. Unplayable, really.

 

Thanks!

 

 

- lillemakken

 

 

 

EDIT

 

Modlist:

 

 

 

Skyrim.esm Active

Update.esm Active

Dawnguard.esm

More Interactive Items.ESM

JSwords.esm

SoS - The Dungeons.esp

SoS - The Wilds.esp

HighResTexturePack01.esp

HighResTexturePack02.esp

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev, Relev}}

Improved Combat Sounds v2.1.esp

Warmer Magic Lights v2.esp

StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp

Ars Metallica.esp

Birds.esp

Bring Out Your Dead.esp

ClamsDropPearls.esp

Cowardly horses.esp

Death Cam (60 Seconds).esp

Dr_Bandolier.esp

DSpSoB.esp

Lanterns Of Skyrim - Around Cities_bright.esp

Note: Obsolete. Update to latest version.

Lanterns Of Skyrim - Bridges x2 - OnOff_bright.esp

Note: Obsolete. Update to latest version.

morevillageanimals.esp

People Have Torches.esp

Perfect Legionnaire 3.0.esp

PilgrimsDelight.esp

RabbitsPlus.esp

SabreFurBag.esp

ScenicCarriages.esp

SMDropLitTorch.esp

DYNAVISION Dynamic Depth of Field.esp

Note: Make sure you have not switched DoF off in your ini file. If you don't see any effect, open you Skyrimprefs.ini and look for 'bDoDepthOfField'. Make sure it is set to 1.

IMAGINATOR - Visual Control for Skyrim.esp

iHUD.esp

+ MATHERIAN_VIKING_SHIELDS_SET +.esp

BowOfShadows.esp

Cloaks.esp

Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Relev}}

Note: Use only one cloaks*esp

1nivWICCloaks.esp

Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Relev}}

1nivWICSkyCloaksPatch.esp

daedric_phelm.esp

Northborn Fur Hoods.esp

EinherjarArmor.esp

FaalSizaan.esp

hunterarmor.esp

LFArmors.esp

MECR_Classic_Nord_Shields.esp

Non-playable Armor.esp

ScoutArmor.esp

Shields_of_the_northern_kingdoms.esp

SilverDragonArmor.esp

SpawnShield.esp

warchiefarmor.esp

SkyrimCoinReplacer.esp

Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev}}

BetterQuestObjectives.esp

masser Size x0.5.esp

NonEssentialChilds.esp

secunda Size x0.5.esp

Soul Gems Differ - E.esp

VariousGuardReplacer.esp

dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Reduced.esp

NPCsUseAmmoAllBows.esp

WerewolfUpgrade.esp

BFSEffects.esp

DeadlySpellImpacts.esp

DeadlySpellImpacts - Two Fire.esp

More Visible Soul Trap Effect.esp

Realistic crime report radius.esp

Duel - Combat Realism.esp

Crimson Tide - Blood.esp

moveitLWT.esp

rcrnShaders.esp

Note: Make sure you have bEnableFileSelection=1 in SkyrimPrefs.ini under [Launcher].

Animated Weapon Enchants.esp

WATER.esp

WATER - Get Wet.esp

Necessary Map Markers (all files included).esp

Automatic Variants.esp

 

 

And yes, the save I'm running has had mods being installed and uninstalled repeatedly, however I did make a save inside coc qasmoke with mods disabled.

Edited August 9, 2012 by lillemakken

[blitzen]

You should post your mod list. Does this happen with a new character? Or are you running with saves for characters that have had mods installed and uninstalled repeatedly over time? Take a look at this:

 

http://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Troubleshooting#tab=Mods_and_Savegames

[lillemakken]

Bump with edit

[blitzen]

Well, one problem is that even if a mod isn't in your current list, if it was ever active, it could have left things in the savegames, such as scripts. For example, if you ever had SoS-Civilization installed at any point, or early versions of mods like Warzones, your saves would still have contents from these mods even though they are long gone. And SoS-C was causing savegame bloat for a lot of people. I had the same problem happen months ago while using early versions of some of the larger mods at the time. I had to deactivate them and make clean saves. That doesn't always work though. Have you activated papyrus logging to see if there are scripts logging a lot of warnings/errors?

 

FYI, files of that size aren't caused by such trivial things as too many corpses, arrows, ash piles, etc. Those can add to the size, but not huge amounts. Anytime you pick up anything, kill anything, move an object from its default position, it will be recorded in your save game. Even tripping over a cart in the road by accident, and moving it, will cause additional data to appear in the savegame. But these are very small size increases. In general, anything over 15 MB is out of control, and indicates a mod malfunction.

[lillemakken]

Hmmmm. Interesting. Do you see any particular mods then in my list which is renowned for anything bad?

 

 

Oh and I never installed Warzones, Sos- Civilization. Always STEP.

 

Any more advices? :)

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

- lillemakken

[blitzen]

The next step would be to see if papyrus is generating a lot of warnings or errors.

[lillemakken]

The papyrus files are insanely large sometimes, up to 2 gigabyte. What's that all about?

[blitzen]

Well, that's most likely related to your savegame problem. It's script-related. Find a representative section of the log file and see which mod(s) is causing so many errors. Paste a section in here inside of a spoiler if you want others to look at it. My log file typically has a few thousand lines logged for a 10 minute session.