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How do you speed up the Quick Save?

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:05 am
by MikeDykeLike
I have Windows XP, 512 DDR Ram and 2.4 Ghz and quicksaving is still very disruptive, but I don't understand why. The saves are only 900kb. Is this normal and is there any way to lessen this problem?

I have defragmented my hard drive, use Ad-Aware and similar programs frequently, run almost no background applications and use a 900 MB cache.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:44 am
by DaemonJ
It depends upon the speed of your hard drive and the size of the cache that you have set.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:39 am
by SP101
I believe the size of your install (minimal, regular or full) matters. Or is this just loading time?

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:15 pm
by VonDondu
How many saved games are there in your saved game folder? If you have a lot (like over a hundred), that can significantly affect the time it takes to save and load games (since the game has to juggle the entire list of saved games).

The only other thing I can suggest is to delete all of the files in your TEMP folder. It will take a little time to reload the current map, but once it is saved to the cache, things should speed up a little bit the next time you load the game.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:23 pm
by MikeDykeLike
[QUOTE=VonDondu]How many saved games are there in your saved game folder? If you have a lot (like over a hundred), that can significantly affect the time it takes to save and load games (since the game has to juggle the entire list of saved games).

The only other thing I can suggest is to delete all of the files in your TEMP folder. It will take a little time to reload the current map, but once it is saved to the cache, things should speed up a little bit the next time you load the game.[/QUOTE]

I did have a lot of save files leftover from my previous playthrough. Deleting them seems to have helped a little. Thanks.