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Originally Posted by propbeanie
One more little question, if you can. How much data do you have in your Save folder? If you look in the Users / UserName / Documents folder, and right-click on the Save folder (usually "SH4", unless you're using MultiSH), and choose "Properties", on the General tab, it should have a "Size:", "Size on disk:" and "Contains:" listings. Also, next time you're in the game and on the Save / Load page, that can tell you how many Saved games you have, and how big they are. Have you saved any with "Replay", and have you been saving your own files, or letting the game keep a running save? How many Saved games do you have? (remember, this is "science"...  ) |
Ok, I have 27 Save Files; My Save methodology is like this: I will take as many as 5-10 interim saves within a patrol. At patrol's end, when I am back in the office, I update my crew as needed, add any new equipment, set the torpedo loadout I prefer, and then go back to the Office and take a Save at that point. I reload that Save to ensure it works ok, and then I
DELETE ALL of the interim Saves from the patrol, from the Autosave at the beginning up to the one I just created. Thus the Save scene is always the Office immediately prior to starting a new patrol. I will also take a Save immediately after taking a new boat or a transfer to a new base. Those saves are also taken while in the office. The Rich Save Games files tend to be about 409kb each, although the folder properties itself says there is only 324kb total...I don't understand that one.
So in the game, when you look in my file of Save games eligible to Load, the names you see and can choose from are only the key events such as a boat change or transfer to new location, and the Start dates for every new patrol.
The Save Games folder properties in the SH4 Documents section shows it has 165 files in 29 folders, with a total size of 12.3Mb. Of that, I had taken 2 interim saves during my current ongoing mission out of Midway (remember, I said I was going to go back to a point immediately prior to requesting the transfer back to the Asiatic Fleet). So now I'm back in 1943 on my way to Area 4. I took an interim save once I got 60nm out of Midway for 397.8Kb, and another upon arrival in Area 4 for 1.6Mb.
Those latter two saves plus any others I take during the patrol will be deleted upon completion of the patrol. I take them to save some travel time should the game crash, as it did last night when I put on too much TC after an engagement with a Japanese convoy and its 4 very busy escorts! I must stop trying to exceed 2048 TC.
The running game, and the SH4 documents files, are stored on my C: drive, which is SSID; both fast for read/write and quality of the save.
So, all in all, while I have a large number of saves going back to the first boat (Seadragon) in Cavite/Manila, they are all small saves from the Office except for the last two above. Oh, and I have never tried the replay feature, to answer that one. Hope all this helps!
Now, I must go downstairs and await the arrival of 16#'s of flash frozen, freshly caught Halibut filets shipped overnight from Soldotna, Alaska. Yum!