Almost 20 mg save file 90 hours in : V

» Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:47 pm

I've been trying to get a really stable game together and I thought I finally had things down, but of course the game finds a new way to screw us over!! As the title says, I'm already up to a 19mg save file at 90 hours, with my first save starting at 9mg. I experimented with three different save tools, but none of them seem to fix the problem with even their 'troubleshooting only' options, and they all generally found very few problems with the save. The best I was able to do with all the fixes was -2mgs, but of course I wasn't going to continue using that save so I cant say if that would've stopped the cycle of increasing bloat. I haven't noticed many symptoms in game yet (fortunately), but I'm sure that will change soon enough. I'm wondering if anyone might know what mod could be causing this, or if there is something else I can try. I know this is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode at this rate.

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» Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:43 pm

I've got saves larger than that at ~100 hours and I'm 99.9% sure I'm not getting any uncontrolled bloating. (My game is very stable)

House mods (amongst others) and player-dropped items will increase the size of your save and this will vary from person to person etc.

I'm more concerned by whatever you did to "troubleshoot" your problem. Were you experiencing instability, or the growing size of your save files was beginning to worry you?