Help from the community - Savetime measures

[Linio]

Hi All,

I've recently stumbled upon issues with saving time in Crusader Kings 2 (who hasn't?), and from what I saw, the compression could be one of the sources of the issue.

So I did some tests by activating and deactivating the compression for autosaves, and measuring the time spent in each case. It has been asked of me to see whether this issue was affecting other people, and this is why i'm here today.

So, I'd like for you to try and test it out on your computer (mostly if the saving time is long for you too).
The test is this :
1) Have a non ironman game (compression is automatically activated on ironman hence the post) advanced enough so that the data is sufficient to generate a 'big' save
2) Activate autosaving
3) Measure the autosaving this with and without Compression activated (Cloud saving should be deactivated also).
4) Post here both times with a description of the environnement where the test was made (PC Specs, OS, etc...)

For me it would go :

Saving :
Time in the game : 10 years in (it would be better if the game was longer, but I have (at least now) no such save
With Compression : ~7 seconds
Without : ~2 seconds
Specs :
i7 4710 2.5Ghz
8 Gb RAM
SSD Drive

Thanks in advance for all of you willing to help.

 

[kmh42]

maybe when I start playing more CKII again I will help but now I have to rescue Cyrodiil.

 

[Linio]

The idea here is not to have an entire game, just make a test.
I can maybe give a save if needed be.

 

[Linio]

Seriously, nobody??

 

[_krampe_]

Is this a joke?
Seriously what did you expect? Of course compression increases the savetime.
It's not exactly rocket science.

 

[Linio]

Is this a joke?
Seriously what did you expect? Of course compression increases the savetime.
It's not exactly rocket science.

Dude, do I look like I'm joking?
As I said, the devs are asking this of me, that's why i wanted facts instead of assumptions.

Anybody willing would help.

 

[kmh42]

Please provide a save game and I will test it when I have time. I don't play non-ironman without mods. Thx

 

[Silver Wizard]

Time in game: 100 years
With compression: 26 seconds.
Without compression: 13 seconds.
Specs:
i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8
8 GiB RAM
No SSD

Turns out I was wrong about the compression making it faster without SSD...

 

[Linio]

Thanks a lot.

Anybody else?

 

[RX2000]

Hi All,

I've recently stumbled upon issues with saving time in Crusader Kings 2 (who hasn't?), and from what I saw, the compression could be one of the sources of the issue.

So I did some tests by activating and deactivating the compression for autosaves, and measuring the time spent in each case. It has been asked of me to see whether this issue was affecting other people, and this is why i'm here today.

So, I'd like for you to try and test it out on your computer (mostly if the saving time is long for you too).
The test is this :
1) Have a non ironman game (compression is automatically activated on ironman hence the post) advanced enough so that the data is sufficient to generate a 'big' save
2) Activate autosaving
3) Measure the autosaving this with and without Compression activated (Cloud saving should be deactivated also).
4) Post here both times with a description of the environnement where the test was made (PC Specs, OS, etc...)

For me it would go :

Saving :
Time in the game : 10 years in (it would be better if the game was longer, but I have (at least now) no such save
With Compression : ~7 seconds
Without : ~2 seconds
Specs :
i7 4710 2.5Ghz
8 Gb RAM
SSD Drive

Thanks in advance for all of you willing to help.

I would help, but I just got a new comp recently & started playing CK2 again & am only doing Ironman this time, so I have no non-Ironman saves at all. Like kmh42 said, if you can get a save from somewhere & provide it I'd be happy to test it out for you.

 

[RhaegarTelcontarTargaryen]

To lazy to measure, but compressed files do take longer. However I never play Ironman, to avoid file corruption so...

 

[_Perun_]

AMD A8 5550M, 2,1 - 3,1ghz x4,
8gb ram
radeon hd 8550g
(just a laptop)

uncompressed 10,8s
compressed 22,9s
It is 235 years into the game, no mods

uncompressed 21,1s
compressed 47,8s
this one is 597 years into the game, no mods

 

[Linio]

Thanks guys!

Apparently, it may be changed so that ironman can stay uncompressed!

Thanks!!

 

[raistlin_wizard]

It would be better if it was uncompressed, saving times get very annoying.