Disc space problems with C: storage device

[Yuri Bezmenov]

I'll go straight to the point

Every time I play Rimworld (with many mods I should add) there's a slowly increasing number of occupied space in my C: storage device, supposedly every time there's a map loading, the world map loading, pawns loading... I've been fine for a few days but when C: starts becoming a red bar then it's a matter of time that Rimworld starts behaving weird, consequently making my computer behave weird, forcing me to shut down the computer.

Is there any way to redirect all that space from Rimworld from C: to any other storage device? I have Rimworld installed in other device but not C: so the space occupation shouldn't make sense.

[Hoki]

thats an errorlog thats being bloated to the extreme.

i think astasia tracked it back to being caused by some sound related issue.

short solution: locate the errorlog and delete it
longterm solution: do shortterm AND fix your modpack

[Yuri Bezmenov]

Originally posted by Hoki:

thats an errorlog thats being bloated to the extreme.
short solution: locate the errorlog and delete it

Where is it located and how is it named?

[Hoki]

C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios

i think the Player.txt would be the bloated one but im not sure (mine's fine for a very long time)

[whatamidoing]

If it's seeming to hang while closing, then it's the sound thing. It's not an issue with any mod, it's a Unity issue.
The game stores some info (things like saves, config files, and the game log) in %localappdata%low/Ludeon Studios/... . I think the argument -savedatafolder [folder] should still work to move it to somewhere not on C:, but I'm not at my computer to check. It shouldn't be getting bloated just while you're playing, though. It'll grow a tiny bit with each save, but unless your drive is full it shouldn't be enough to affect anything.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

Ah, man, I think I know what happened. I've been looking into it and I realized where's the problem: the saves.

I have too many saves, and what's worse, even if you delete your saves they still store in your folder. I see 133 elements in the \Saves folder, in .OLD and .RWS formats. Each file weights an average of 15.000 KB. And one of them weights 105.892 KB. I'm gonna do some cleaning.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by Yuri Bezmenov:

Ah, man, I think I know what happened. I've been looking into it and I realized where's the problem: the saves.

I have too many saves, and what's worse, even if you delete your saves they still store in your folder. I see 133 elements in the \Saves folder, in .OLD and .RWS formats. Each file weights an average of 15.000 KB. And one of them weights 105.892 KB. I'm gonna do some cleaning.

That's not your issue. Even if you were to have all 133 items be 105 kilobytes large, that's a grand total of 13.64 megabytes, or 0.01 gigabytes. Unless you have a ridiculously tiny HDD, you'll need hundreds of thousands of saves before storage space becomes an issue because of it.

When you close down RimWorld, does it stay open for a long period of time (usually until you force quit)? Then that's indicative that you have the aforementioned sound bug. One of your mods is trying to play a sound as you quit, causing the error log to keep recording the error. you can double check this by checking your player.log file using the directions already posted by Hoki and whatamidoing, and if it's larger than a handful of megabytes, then that's what you've got. The log file can be deleted without concern.

As for how to deal with it in the long run:

1) Obviously finding the mod that causes it and stop using it is the best, most permanent solution.
2) When you quit RimWorld, if it takes more than ~5 seconds to close, force quit it.
3) I'm not sure of the validity of this one, but I've heard that if you quit to the title screen first, then close the game, it should quit normally.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Jigain:

Originally posted by Yuri Bezmenov:

Ah, man, I think I know what happened. I've been looking into it and I realized where's the problem: the saves.

I have too many saves, and what's worse, even if you delete your saves they still store in your folder. I see 133 elements in the \Saves folder, in .OLD and .RWS formats. Each file weights an average of 15.000 KB. And one of them weights 105.892 KB. I'm gonna do some cleaning.

That's not your issue. Even if you were to have all 133 items be 105 kilobytes large, that's a grand total of 13.64 megabytes, or 0.01 gigabytes. Unless you have a ridiculously tiny HDD, you'll need hundreds of thousands of saves before storage space becomes an issue because of it.

I don't think the noted size is correct. Rimworld save games are never that small. They are probably talking MB.

[StinkyMonkey]

I think OPs 105.892 KB is a comma not a stop in the middle for "standard" maths. I know some maths systems use a different symbol causing issues in calculation if you don't see it.

105,892kb would be 100mb.

[Cloud Breaker]

Maybe or maybe not your issue but when your hard drive starts running out of space (Especially the drive your OS is on) things go bad, you need to leave a certain amount of free space on a drive to keep things healthy.

Regardless of where Rimworld is stored, certain types of files under windows are going to go under the drive its on. Free up a couple gigs of space so the drive isnt at cap and see if this helps your problems as well.

Here is some basic answers to the question I talking about it. From your post it sounds like it could potentially be your issue. https://www.quora.com/How-much-free-space-should-you-leave-on-your-Windows-PC

[Yuri Bezmenov]

Ugh... This problem is unfortunately too intelligent for me to solve unless I invest in upgrading my C: drive if I have to be honest.

Originally posted by StinkyMonkey:

105,892kb would be 100mb.

Yes, that's what I meant in my previous post. I only managed to get 2 GB more, but nothing more than that, so unless I do some kind of trick or upgrade my C: drive I will have the paranoia of the kind of "Is my PC okay?" every 5 minutes.

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by Yuri Bezmenov:

Ugh... This problem is unfortunately too intelligent for me to solve unless I invest in upgrading my C: drive if I have to be honest.

Originally posted by StinkyMonkey:

105,892kb would be 100mb.

Yes, that's what I meant in my previous post. I only managed to get 2 GB more, but nothing more than that, so unless I do some kind of trick or upgrade my C: drive I will have the paranoia of the kind of "Is my PC okay?" every 5 minutes.

You might want to try an opensource disk use program like Wiztree. This will assist in determining where all that used space is being consumed. This makes it easier to clear up significant space.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by Yuri Bezmenov:

Originally posted by StinkyMonkey:

105,892kb would be 100mb.

Yes, that's what I meant in my previous post.

Ah, I see. As someone who dabbles in math regularly, if I see a period between two numbers, I assume it to be a decimal designation. And as someone who comes from a country where spacing in large numbers either doesn't happen or uses literal spaces instead of commas (so 24000 or 24 000 instead of 24,000), it's even further cemented that a period is a decimal point. Apologies for misunderstanding you.

If you haven't already, try running Windows' Disk Cleanup. Assuming you use Windows 10, just open up your file browser, right click on your C drive, choose Properties, and under the General tab, select Disk Cleanup. If you use another OS, I'm sure there are guides online to the same or equivalent functions. Disk Cleanup will remove temporary files and clean out your caches, thumbnails, and recycle bin. Could achieve just about nothing up to several gigabytes of free space, depending on how much you have lying around.

[Ziehn]

Originally posted by Yuri Bezmenov:

I'll go straight to the point
supposedly every time there's a map loading, the world map loading, pawns loading...

This sound like a RAM issue, how much RAM do you have in your PC?

What I believe is happening is you are running a lot of mods and not enough RAM thus your page file is being used filling up your drive. I run ~425 mods and Rimworld will use 10-12Gb of RAM if not more.

If this is the case either it's time to upgrade PC or trim the mod list

[Eddie]

It's definitely the player.txt files as listed above. My PC hung terribly while I tried closing the game, and I looked at my C drive and lo and behold. I had 21 gigs left... I went and deleted both player.txt files and one was 334 gigs....

Now the issue is finding what mod is causing this because this is a new problem that is surfacing

[StinkyMonkey]

Originally posted by Ponky:

It's definitely the player.txt files as listed above. My PC hung terribly while I tried closing the game, and I looked at my C drive and lo and behold. I had 21 gigs left... I went and deleted both player.txt files and one was 334 gigs....

Now the issue is finding what mod is causing this because this is a new problem that is surfacing

It's a known issue, see Khan and Astasia responses here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294100/discussions/0/5350815203286595426/

It may help you a little to find the cause.