Just installed the plugin, will post files as soon as I have a long save, but I may have semi-relevant info:
I had long saves for literally YEARS. Since pretty much I started playing with modded F4, and way before I started using Sim settlements (2) 2 weeks ago.
It actually got so bad I stopped playing for 2 years, and just got back in with SS2 and a fresh install, same problem.
In my case, it used to be so long as to take 7+ minutes on my previous install. I'm at 2-3 minutes usually right now.
Since I didn't have SS before, that suggests the issue isn't unique to SS2 2.0, right?
Since it generally happened in settlements (always happened in settlements, happened maybe 50% of times out of settlements at the worst when I stopped), I always thought it was because of something like "scrap everything", "place everywhere", or my huge "better manufacturing" factory, or a hardware/OS issue (which seemed likely since I could find no info/people with the same issue on the net),
The same issue started in settlements in my new playthrough, pretty much when I started using settlements. It quickly got annoying in sanctuary, so I emigrated to starlight drive-in, and after a bit of cleanup and building it got back up to a few seconds, and it continued climbing, now with 25 settlers and ~35 buildings it's taking something like 2-3m.
Some things to note:
- I'm using WSF since the first release pretty much, I remember discovering it soon after and hoping it solved the issue. It did not.
- I'm still using "place everywhere" (actively), "better manufacturing" (installed but unused yet), and "scrap everything" (actively too, but I haven't scrapped anything in like 40 hours and the issue still worsened in that time. I built most of my set in that time, with SS2, so it kinda checks out SS2 or settlement/script bloat is the issue). I know scrap everything is "bad", but what can I do, I like my blank slate to build on.
- I have switched my OS (W8->W10), GPU (GTX 1080->3090), but not CPU (ryzen 2700x) or RAM (32G in my pc between affected playthroughs, so my OS theory is toast, hardware theory isn't completely)
- I have stupidly deleted my previous modlist, but I think I may have a backup of my MO2 data somewhere, I can go digging if you troubleshooting geniuses tell me it would help.
- Both my installations are and were quite stable otherwise, the previous one generally did not crash at all, this one maybe once every 6 hours on save load only (loading that same save again after restarting the game is fine). I've been using mods on all bethesda games since oblivion and F3, so I mostly know what I'm doing.
Last but not least, can anyone inform me where is the link to donate on paypal? I want to send 100 bucks to add to the bug bounty, but I can't find the link...