Why does my game seize up on auto-save?

[dillermand esc plan]

As the title implies, the constant halting of the game to save is infuriating. While I appreciate auto-save, it completely breaks the flow of the experience (it's supposed to be chill right?)

[Lil Puppy]

It takes a snapshot of the worlds and all your edits and saves those to a file.
Most games do it this way, there's another way to do it though and I've suggested it but they'd have to rewrite part of the engine to make it work so it's not likely to ever have asynchronous saving.

The problem with not "pausing" the game to take the snapshot is corrupting the data while taking the snapshot and that has catastrophic consequences on the save file.

However, you might need to upgrade your computer if it 'seizes' up for too long during the process, at best it should hitch a little during save. But it all depends on how much you've done in your worlds, if you're digging up stuff and making sculptures and putting bases everywhere and there's a tether network that would rival the internet, you might need to calm down a little on that stuff for the sake of your toaster.

There also might be an issue with your hard drive or the permissions in the save folder itself.

[dillermand esc plan]

Thanks for the reply, I'm frustrated over the lack of clarity in the game on exactly -when- it autosaves. Or if there's an option to turn it off and instead allow for manual save only.

The saves themselves aren't long freezes, they are the slight hiccups like you suggest are normal. It's just that they feel sporadic in their occurrence, and happen more than once at a time (like twice, sometimes more). So rather than being able to predict exactly when it will hiccup, it will seemingly do it on its own terms, so while I'm focused in on the game it just starts to hiccup-save.

My computer shouldn't have issues with the game, as I have an i7-6700K, 16GB DDR4 3200, and a 980 Ti on pure SSD storage and at 1440p resolution. It chugs at times, but probably because of how the game operates itself scale-wise (which is fine, I play Arma 3 lol)

Do you know when it initiates the auto-save?

[Rodos]

There has never been an autosave feature in this game that I am aware about, it has always been manual, in which the only time the game normally saves is any time someone enters the habitat or a vehicle of any sort (this includes just a random rover seat sitting on the ground). If you play multiplayer, anyone who enters a habitat/vehicle will trigger a save, but the notification will only be visible on the host computer, so clients might be unaware that they are the ones causing the game to save constantly every time they jump in/out of a tractor, etc.

[dillermand esc plan]

Alright, thanks for the clarity. I play with 2 other people so if we're going in and out of vehicles at different intervals it goes hog wild lol