Long save and load times

[Iconian]

I installed Windows 10 a few months back, and ever since then the save and load times are longer. It used to be that it would take five or ten seconds to save the game, or to enter a city or building, etc. Now it's more like 20 or 30 seconds. Does anyone how to fix this?

[Sandakin]

throw hard drive in trash and buy ssd

[Iconian]

There was no issue though until I installed Windows 10. It was fine when I still had Windows 7, which leads me to believe that the problem is Windows 10-related, not hard drive related.

[Sandakin]

ssd is like $20, guarantee it will fix the problem.

[DOOMed]

Originally posted by Iconian:

I installed Windows 10 a few months back, and ever since then the save and load times are longer. It used to be that it would take five or ten seconds to save the game, or to enter a city or building, etc. Now it's more like 20 or 30 seconds. Does anyone how to fix this?

Have you tried enabling all of the pre load features in the .ini file? They may make load times slightly longer...as for save, yeah, buy a new drive.

[Iconian]

"Have you tried enabling all of the pre load features in the .ini file?"

No, how would I do that?


I still don't understand why everything takes so much longer now that I have Windows 10 though.

[Sandakin]

Originally posted by Iconian:

"Have you tried enabling all of the pre load features in the .ini file?"

No, how would I do that?


I still don't understand why everything takes so much longer now that I have Windows 10 though.

let me know the day you decide to install your modern os on a modern storage device and realize that was your issue all along.

[cheshirm]

how large is the save file that takes 20-30 seconds?

have any old saves? like from when your toon was lvl 1? how long does that take to load?

start new game. make a save when out of the tunnels. how long does that take?

I am playing on a 2011 hard drive. takes 5 seconds to load/save a level 47 toon. it might be your hard drive. more probably it is a corrupt save.

[Iconian]

@cheshirm: Thank you for your reply. I have about 80 saves in my Oblivion save folder. The ESS files of my last 5 saves have been between 5,000 and 6,000 kb. It looks like my first save of my current game was 1,294 kb. I'll test load it and see how long it takes.

I do have a lot of mods loaded with the game, but I installed them well before Windows 10, and save/load times were fine then.

[Iconian]

I just loaded and timed my most recent save, and it took 35 seconds. Then I loaded my first save from this game, right before I exited the Imperial Sewers, and it took 18 seconds.

Then I went back to my most recent save and saved game again, and it took 47 seconds. Finally I started a new game and saved while in the sewers, and again as soon as I got out. Both of those saves took 3 or 4 seconds.

[Iconian]

I just played again for a few hours, and timed the last two loading screens. For the first one, I walked out of the Bravil mage's guild and into Bravil. The loading screen there took one minute 27 seconds. Then I fast traveled to Talos Plaza in the Imperial City. That took one minute 48 seconds. My computer is otherwise working just fine, so I'm thinking this may be some sort of corrupt save issue. What could I do to fix that?

[Lallyp123(G.E.W.P)]

Originally posted by Iconian:

I just played again for a few hours, and timed the last two loading screens. For the first one, I walked out of the Bravil mage's guild and into Bravil. The loading screen there took one minute 27 seconds. Then I fast traveled to Talos Plaza in the Imperial City. That took one minute 48 seconds. My computer is otherwise working just fine, so I'm thinking this may be some sort of corrupt save issue. What could I do to fix that?

Did you end up fixing this since I have the game on a ssd and have the same problem

[Iconian]

I didn't get it fixed. I ended up quitting that game and have barely played since, unfortunately.

[Lallyp123(G.E.W.P)]

Originally posted by Iconian:

I didn't get it fixed. I ended up quitting that game and have barely played since, unfortunately.

Ah Fun thanks for the reply though

[lonetrav]

All I can tell you is that when I moved from Win7 to Win10, and later to Win11 (all on the same old PC), Oblivion remained on my hard disk, and saving / loading times didn't change (at least I didn't notice anything).
My interpretation is that your longer loading times having nothing to do with Oblivion and Win10 per se, but with other elements of your configuration. Candidates are hardware and / or Oblivion mods (probably there are a few more - I'm not an expert in this field). Like RAM (I have 8 GB), GPU (for example, have settings changed in the course of the Win update?), CPU core management, resource-hungry mods (I think Win10 stresses your PC somewhat more than Win7, which may be a part of the explanation), And I wouldn't rule out harddisk or other hardware defects, too (perhaps you could run a checker).

I'd consider to re-install Oblivion (at least to verify the Oblivion files). But I can't say if this would be feasible, considering your mod configuration. On the other hand, if the alternative is to not play Oblivion at all, it might be worth doing it.

As an aside: Someone suggested to get an SSD disk. I doubt this would help (at least not for this problem), given that Oblivion is an old game and does run fine on modern PCs without an SSD disk. And I bought a new laptop recently, with SSD, and didn't notice significant performance differences (but then I don't play huge modern resource-hungry graphical games at all).

[alekssandros]

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