LaidBackNinja
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So, this is weird. I noticed that saving and loading was taking a long time... turns out my save file was 400MB! I looked in my saves folder and noticed my save files had quickly ballooned. They had been stable around 23MB for a long time, then suddenly shot up to 100MB and from there to 400MB!
Weird. Extra info: I had not played for a few months. The 23MB saves were all from before my break. The bloated saves were from when I picked up playing again last week. My gut says a an update to SS2 causes this issue.
TESTING TIME!
- I reverted to the last stable 23 MB save I could find. Load game. Stand still. Do nothing. Save every minute or so. Every time I save (main menu save, not quicksave), the file size seems to increase by about 500KB - 1MB. Quickly ballooning from 23 to 45 in a few minutes of standing in Sanctuary doing nothing.
- Went back to an even older stable 23MB savegame. File size starts bloating. This rules out that a certain gameplay trigger (quest complete, plot / city build) causes the issue, because I had played for a few hours after this save before my hiatus and the save files had remained stable at 23MB with an older version SS2. This increases my suspicion that the issue lies with a newer version of SS2.
- Disabled SS2 and all associated plugins (SS extended, a few expansion packs). 400 MB savegame went back to 8mb, and remained stable.
- Enabled SS2. Loaded 8MB savegame. Filesize instantly jumps to 23MB. Not surprising, as my savegames were stable at around 23Mb before the bloating started.
- Enabled SS2 but none of the expansion packs, loaded 400MB save. Stand still, do nothing. Save game every minute. Filesize climbs steadily.
- Any save I load with SS2 disabled, no matter its size, drops back down to 8-9MB without SS2, and remains stable.
What the hell is going on??
Weird. Extra info: I had not played for a few months. The 23MB saves were all from before my break. The bloated saves were from when I picked up playing again last week. My gut says a an update to SS2 causes this issue.
TESTING TIME!
- I reverted to the last stable 23 MB save I could find. Load game. Stand still. Do nothing. Save every minute or so. Every time I save (main menu save, not quicksave), the file size seems to increase by about 500KB - 1MB. Quickly ballooning from 23 to 45 in a few minutes of standing in Sanctuary doing nothing.
- Went back to an even older stable 23MB savegame. File size starts bloating. This rules out that a certain gameplay trigger (quest complete, plot / city build) causes the issue, because I had played for a few hours after this save before my hiatus and the save files had remained stable at 23MB with an older version SS2. This increases my suspicion that the issue lies with a newer version of SS2.
- Disabled SS2 and all associated plugins (SS extended, a few expansion packs). 400 MB savegame went back to 8mb, and remained stable.
- Enabled SS2. Loaded 8MB savegame. Filesize instantly jumps to 23MB. Not surprising, as my savegames were stable at around 23Mb before the bloating started.
- Enabled SS2 but none of the expansion packs, loaded 400MB save. Stand still, do nothing. Save game every minute. Filesize climbs steadily.
- Any save I load with SS2 disabled, no matter its size, drops back down to 8-9MB without SS2, and remains stable.
What the hell is going on??
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