Pathological loading times
Soltis:
I've noticed as my saves approach the 40 MB mark (this is the combined size of everything in a given save folder), loading time skyrockets. It used to take around 20-30 seconds to load completely, and that's with a cleared cache and everything.
Now it's taking around five minutes to load a single saved game, and if I quit to the main menu and re-load another saved game, it can easily take 50% longer *every single time I do this*. Waiting 20 minutes on an i7 920 with 12 GB of RAM and an nV GTX 470 to load one single game is just a little ridiculous.
I've ensmallened and decrapified everything I can ensmallen and decrapify; I've used AM fixall and such to clear out any brokenness I can locate, etc etc; I just want to know, is this just inherent to TS3's broken programming/architecture, or is there another way to help the game load these save files more quickly?
Madame Mim:
Obviously it's due to the endU virus (also known as PEBKAC) - you used the word pathological not me.
wizard_merlin:
How much harddrive space do you have available? You might be getting low.
My current saved game is at 137MB and still loads in maybe 30 seconds or so, never really timed it, so may be a bit quicker, or slightly longer, but nothing out of the ordinary.
kiki:
Also check how big your mods folder is and how much CC you have.
PolecatEZ:
Quote from: Soltis on 2010 December 06, 00:13:01
I've noticed as my saves approach the 40 MB mark (this is the combined size of everything in a given save folder), loading time skyrockets. It used to take around 20-30 seconds to load completely, and that's with a cleared cache and everything.
Now it's taking around five minutes to load a single saved game, and if I quit to the main menu and re-load another saved game, it can easily take 50% longer *every single time I do this*. Waiting 20 minutes on an i7 920 with 12 GB of RAM and an nV GTX 470 to load one single game is just a little ridiculous.
I've ensmallened and decrapified everything I can ensmallen and decrapify; I've used AM fixall and such to clear out any brokenness I can locate, etc etc; I just want to know, is this just inherent to TS3's broken programming/architecture, or is there another way to help the game load these save files more quickly?
You got a sexy-like system, but load times are primarily dependant on HD speed. Theres a program called HDTach you can get to test this. You might want to think about setting up a soft RAID 0 if you have multiple HDs, or investing in 1 or 2 (for RAID) SSD's. There's a few other solutions (in the $100 to $600 range), but I think if you check on that stuff first, you'll see the issue. HDD read speed on a mid-range gaming rig like yours should hit in the 250 - 280 range, anything less and you're really bottlenecking your system.
Image below is from mine when I was testing out my 2 X WD1TB 6gb drives, but putting them on the Intel controller instead of the Marvel. Tomorrow I put my second SSD in there to see if I can top it. My saves are about 90mb and the load times stay under a minute on a 930 (OC'd to 3.6), 12gb, 2xGTX470 SLI (SLI does nothing for this game, btw), and RAID 0.
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