The Witcher?

[zubyo]

[quote]Wow. That's pretty nuts.

I checked an individual save, though, and it was just over 8MB...?

Mine are 20MB apiece, zipping it takes it down to 7MB... just under 2/3rds smaller. I also save all the time to try out the different paths you can try, and before playing poker. So that makes a lot of extra saves :)

Yeah, logically the saves sizes go up as you play more into the story; mine range from 18 MB to 26 MB, and I have about 68. Thats about 1.39 GB here. Ergh. :?

[Ryom]

Enabling NTFS compression on the saves folder reduces the space taken by 35%.... that'll save ya 500MB of space zubyo :)

[BlueMak]

ever heard of over writing save files?
Why do you have 68 save files?

[Paradigm Shifter]

[quote]Mine are 20MB apiece, zipping it takes it down to 7MB... just under 2/3rds smaller. I also save all the time to try out the different paths you can try, and before playing poker. So that makes a lot of extra saves :)

Yeah, logically the saves sizes go up as you play more into the story; mine range from 18 MB to 26 MB, and I have about 68. Thats about 1.39 GB here. Ergh. :?
Yeah, it makes sense to try all the different paths and things. It's quite fun. ;) I seem to be the avatar of the god of awesome luck when it comes to dice poker. I've not lost once. :shock:

I've played a few games in the past where the save files are the same size regardless of where you are in the game - but also they tend to be rather more economical on the save file size. The bits that aren't used in the earth stages of the game are just blank until needed. ;)

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edit: I remember looking at my Deus Ex save folder when I finished my first playthrough of that game... I saved everywhere so I could try everything. Save folder size? just shy of 6GB.

[X-Warrior]

I seem to be the avatar of the god of awesome luck when it comes to dice poker. I've not lost once. :shock:

It's not just you... I think I've got a 10:1 win:loss ratio at least. The opponents are just crap :P

[Ryom]

Whats the biggest pot anyone has gotten without reloading tricks? Mine was something like 7000 orens from the king. Fool raises like hell, he nearly bankrupted me raising :o

[Ryom]

ever heard of over writing save files?
Why do you have 68 save files?

Who checks their saves folder? I hunted it down because the Load a Saved Game screen started taking a long time to come up. I started deleting them one by one from in the game, but that took too long and you wind up accidentally loading a game all the time. When I found out where they were kept, I saw they were taking up almost HALF of my 36GB Raptor, which is ludicrous.

CdProjekt definitely could use schooling on optimizations of various sorts. They fixed the level caching causing excessive load times, hopefully they'll trim down the save file sizes next :)

[X-Warrior]

I have a better solution:

One quicksave file.
One autosave file.

As it is now, every quicksave/autosave will get you a new file. Unusual, and I understand why that is...

[BlueMak]

[quote]ever heard of over writing save files?
Why do you have 68 save files?

Who checks their saves folder? I hunted it down because the Load a Saved Game screen started taking a long time to come up. I started deleting them one by one from in the game, but that took too long and you wind up accidentally loading a game all the time. When I found out where they were kept, I saw they were taking up almost HALF of my 36GB Raptor, which is ludicrous.

CdProjekt definitely could use schooling on optimizations of various sorts. They fixed the level caching causing excessive load times, hopefully they'll trim down the save file sizes next :)

I don't disagree that 16GB for save files is much. I just don't understand who wants 68 different save files for one game. What is the point? 5 or 10 hours in are you going to reload save game 8?
That's one more reason that you can overwrite save files.

And I won't even go to the whole "saving every 2 min cause I don't want to do any single mistake" mentality that many gamers have.

[Ryom]

I have a better solution:

One quicksave file.
One autosave file.

As it is now, every quicksave/autosave will get you a new file. Unusual, and I understand why that is...

This is the answer, if they did it this way I'd have had a total of about 5 save files. The files don't overwrite themselves, that's why there are so many of them. There is usually no reason not to save frequently. Save early, save often ring a bell? I don't need the power to go back 10 hours in the storyline, just 5 minutes sometimes. And replaying the whole game just to answer "what would happen if I..." is ludicrous.

[Flo]

I used quick save quite liberally throughout the game since going into the menu and overwriting an existing save just took too long for how often I saved.

I usually cleared all but the most recent saves either before or after a session, though, to keep the save folder from becoming too bloated.

[Gecko]

Load times are pretty quick I find. A few seconds each. Some areas more than others. Before the patch, they were annoyingly slow, but they have drastically improved now.

I mostly rely on the quicksave and autosave, only making other saves at critical points.

[zubyo]

Enabling NTFS compression on the saves folder reduces the space taken by 35%.... that'll save ya 500MB of space zubyo :)

But does it affect the save files? (like not beeing able to load them once they are under compression)

[Ryom]

No, drive compression is transparent to the applications on your PC. I've enabled it on my saves folder and suffered no adverse effects. You trade CPU time for disk time (and which is faster?) :)

[Paradigm Shifter]

Shouldn't do, as the compression is at the file-system level, and therefore transparent, rather than at the file level (like putting each file in a .ZIP file)...

Might slow loading/saving a little, though.

[Ryom]

Might slow loading/saving a little, though.

There is no appreciable difference in loads or saves after enabling folder compression for me.

[Paradigm Shifter]

[quote]Might slow loading/saving a little, though.

There is no appreciable difference in loads or saves after enabling folder compression for me.
As with so much in computers, YMMV. ;) NTFS compression hits my single core rig quite hard when I enable it and try to access the compressed files if they're large. My dual core rigs don't even blink. Can also be attributed to the efficiency of the HDDs (as they're different) and the chipset in the boards.

[Ryom]

It's quite possible for the compression to speed up disk accesses as well. So if you've got a fast processor (especially dual-core or more) you may be able to speed up the level loads a bit. Assign the witcher to the second core and let the first core handle the compression.

[Tanuki]

I picked up the UK version and apparently no one is in to instructions over there.

How do I fight in OTC mode? What is the diff between left and right-click?

I know to click when the flaming sword appears but there is a bunch of other crap and the witcher is getting it handed to him.



FYI, there is also an enhanced version on the way that registered users can download as a patch.

[Tanuki]

Nevermind I found the pdf.