Slow save game process

[wosung]

Is there any way to speed up the save game process?

I like to save every single turn. And I noticed that this process (opening the save screen and actually saving the game) is really getting slower in midgame. I remember this being the same also in SCWiE.

Would it help if the savegames and the game would be on one HDD partition? I use to have the former on a SSD, the latter on a HDD. Is it possible to change the location of the savegames?

[sPzAbt653]

It's my understanding that it is loading or reading all the save files every time you save, so it takes longer the more save files you have [the save files are large as they save the entire game - graphics, scripts and all else]. I also used to save every turn but it took too long, so now I only save after specific points, i.e. AftPol or AftFr.
I agree with you that it would be nice if saving were a bit quicker.

[wosung]

Thank you. That would explain the long saving time.

[BillRunacre]

If you move the save files to another folder specially created for the saves it should help, just keeping the minimum in the game's own save folder.

[wosung]

Thank you. It helps.