PSA: Number of saved games affects load times and general performance

[Zyrusticae]

And I don't just mean the pre-mission load times, either, though it obviously affects that. It also affects general menu navigation - even the simple act of switching between rooms on the Argo or changing patterns on your mechs is affected by this!

This is an utterly baffling occurrence and it is completely beyond me to guess why in the world old saved games would affect general performance like this (seriously, what kind of spaghetti code are we talking here??), but my performance results speak for themselves. The contrast between before and after I cleared out my old saves really is night and day. Literally, I shaved minutes off of my typical load times.

So, if you're suffering from long and annoying hitches like I was, clean out those saves. You'll be happier for it.

 

[Wamuu]

Well, that would explain a lot. BRB, I have some house cleaning to take care of.

 

[DragonsRage]

Thank you SOOOO MUCH. I am on week 794. Between all my manual saves and the auto saves I have so many freeking save files.

 

[Wamuu]

That actually worked. I don't know why but it did. Are we certain this wasn't coded by some first year intern?

 

[Chaotic-Entropy]

Hmmm... I guess maybe it's trying to reload the save game list regardless of what screen you're on and causing the actual thing it's doing to hang?

 

[Wamuu]

Could be. Also, I did notice that the loading time would increase during each individual session the more I saved.

 

[Abydos_1]

So...Can't find the save-file placement. Nothing in "My games" folder nor the Battletech folder itself, unless I'm a dork (which is fully plausible mind you )

 

[Wamuu]

You can find the save file here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\101977819\637090\remote\C0\SGS1

 

[Zyrusticae]

So...Can't find the save-file placement. Nothing in "My games" folder nor the Battletech folder itself, unless I'm a dork (which is fully plausible mind you )

Steam:

\steam\userdata\[steamid]\637090\remote\C0\SGS1.

GoG:

\AppData\Local\GOG.com\Galaxy\Applications\50593543263669699\Storage\Shared\Files\C0\SGS.

Note that Steam may repopulate your saves if you have cloud saves enabled. (I personally just went in and did it the long way through the in-game "Load Game" screen.)

 

[DragonsRage]

So...Can't find the save-file placement. Nothing in "My games" folder nor the Battletech folder itself, unless I'm a dork (which is fully plausible mind you )

I have been trying to figure out where the dang saves are for a while and I am feeling really stupid now.

 

[XTRMNTR2K]

Noticed this a few days ago as well and have been moving my older savegames elsewhere since then.

On a related note, if you're on GOG Galaxy and have cloud savegames enabled, you need to have the game running in the background while moving or deleting your old savegames. Otherwise the Galaxy client will simply re-download them the next time you run the game.

 

[Abydos_1]

Steam:

\steam\userdata\[steamid]\637090\remote\C0\SGS1.

GoG:

\AppData\Local\GOG.com\Galaxy\Applications\50593543263669699\Storage\Shared\Files\C0\SGS.

Note that Steam may repopulate your saves if you have cloud saves enabled. (I personally just went in and did it the long way through the in-game "Load Game" screen.)

Ok, thank you. Found it under the GoG despite I am playing fully off-line (no launcher at all) But what a mess, the way those save files are sorted.

https://imgur.com/a/hz4WbQ0

 

[Freyar]

I deleted my first campaign, and truncated saves to the most recent financial report. this has helped significantly.

 

[Leone - Raid Leader]

Many thanks, I'll hafta give this a go once I get home.

~Leone.

 

[Ashram Darkstar]

This information should probably be added to one of the FAQs until HBS hopefully improves the save game functionality.

 

[Remnar]

Hey thanks, I would never have thought to clear those out.

 

[Ri0Rdian]

That actually worked. I don't know why but it did. Are we certain this wasn't coded by some first year intern?

[Mod Edit: Please stay respectful towards everyone when posting]
I personally really love spaghetti but not in the code.

 

[janjanjan]

Thanks for the tip. GoG Mac players can find the save files at:

~/Users/username/Library/Application Support/unity.Harebrained schemes.BattleTech/C0/SGS1

 

[Siven80]

Hmm, another game had this issue too, cant remember which tho.

I hope we get an actual proper Ironman mode which will then just keep the 1 save file, that will save me time deleting all the other save files .

 

[_Sohei_]

I noticed this and attempted to delete them in game but it took a full minute to delete a single save file and I have hundreds. I have that many because the game has been crashing frequently for me so I save between every combat phase. I will have to hunt down the files outside of the game and get rid of most of them. I searched on my own but could not find them before.