Saving and Loading taking 10+ minutes

[Absolutist]

After updating to .45b I have noticed that saving takes a LONG time. Loading does as well. Also, my saves are not in my appdata/roaming anymore, theyre just in C:/Users/Me. Could this be causing the problem?

[supermalparit]

Well, that doesn't have to be the problem. Towns 0.42b also stores the saves on that location.

[Absolutist]

Oh, okay. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and still having the same issue :/

EDIT: Actually, could Desura be the problem? It is saying my harddisk is low on space (it isn't lol, i have 1.45tb remaining)

[supermalparit]

Hmmm, seems that something wrong is in there (your system).

Maybe the documents folder is set as a Windows compressed folder? So, Windows try to compress all the files there?

[Absolutist]

Huh. Apparently my folder was set to read only. I'll disable that and see if it fixes it

[Absolutist]

Nope, still taking a long time to load.

edit: I noticed in taskmanager that when i load my map, theres a host process for windows services that comes up that uses a whole lot of memory. Don't know if it's related or anything

[supermalparit]

For sure is related, the game map (+items, buildings, enemies, ...) is fully loaded into memory. Loading a game consist of read all that stuff from disk and place it into memory (RAM).

How many RAM you have? You notice the same issue when you load/save a tutorial map?

[Absolutist]

16 gigs of ram atm. I havent even tried the tutorial map, i'll give that a go.

[Absolutist]

Yeah, loading a tutorial map was fine the first time, now i'm frozen at saving.

[supermalparit]

This is pretty strange. It seems that you have something checking the disk operations (say virus, antivirus, weird disk utilities, ....).