Temporary solution for save files bloating

[VoltarDaedra]

For all people who passed the Point-of-no-Return with all mods installed, lost their safest unmodded save files and constanly had a headache with save files bloating from 10-15Mb to enormous 100Mb+ but with all these troubles who want to continue playing with all mods as I want (start new clean game after 100+ mods, texture packs and beeing 50+ lvl Dovahkin - not for me) I found TEMPORARY (1-2 hours of playing) but EFFECTIVE solution! If you can't more smooth playing with increasing in-time-intervals microfreezes, if your saves bloating to unsafe size (more than 100Mb), do this stupid trick:

 

1. Before launching game, open your skyrimprefs.ini and find these strings, change them and save file

 

[MAIN]

...

bSaveOnPause=1 --> change to 0

bSaveOnTravel=1

bSaveOnWait=1 --> change to 0

bSaveOnRest=1 --> change to 0

...

[saveGame]

fAutosaveEveryXMins=10.0000 -->change to 0

 

For now, autosave occurs only when you fast-traveling,

2. Launch Skyrim, load last save then go to small interior cell - BreezeHome, Frokies Hut etc.

3. Open console and type pcb to purge cell buffers

4. Wait 24 in-game hours (or sleep in bed)

5. And from this moment, just press ESC for game beeing paused - need at least, 1 hour of REAL time for game beeing paused

6. After that, unpause your game and make a clean save in new file. Quit the game and go to Skyrim save directory in your harddrive - last clean save must be about 10-13Mb or significally drop in size!

7. Relaunch game and play ;)

8. Repeat steps 2-7 when game microfreezes more often and save files grow to elephant-sized.

 

But this fu***ng Voodoo-Magic works for limited amount of time as bugged scripts starting again bloating clean save file to huge amounts just in 1-2hour. Method worked 100% - 3 my friends try it with different mod packs, different hardware in their PC's and different game walktrough styles.

 

So, shitty cycle "1 hour of playing -> 1 hour of game-on-pause -> 1 hour of playing ..." :)))))))

 

P.S. Sorry for my english...

Edited August 19, 2012 by VoltarDaedra