Like I said, I didn't mass craft, I just dismantled (which I don't think entirely counts as crafting)
SS maybe I'm doing something wrong. (If I am tell me how to pls
)Like I said, I didn't mass craft, I just dismantled (which I don't think entirely counts as crafting)
SS maybe I'm doing something wrong. (If I am tell me how to pls
Just go in to one folder. Not all of them.
nvm then last is 6mb but either way, dismantling doesn't go towards crafting hardcap save afaik (or so I've been told even though it's clearly part of crafting).
Thank you for your input with this issue, it's very helpful. It's something I've very concerned about since I love crafting in pretty much every game lol
Like I said, I didn't mass craft, I just dismantled (which I don't think entirely counts as crafting)
SS maybe I'm doing something wrong. (If I am tell me how to pls
Well I'm not sure what you're storing in that folder, but it says it contains 137 files. A normal save folder contains 3
. Look. If your actual save file is bigger than 8MB then I'd not only like to see that save file, but I'd also really like to see your ini files, because maybe your client has a solution. I need real data then though.
If this is your argument then better rework the whole crafting tree perk.
There's a perk when you disassemble items with 15% chance to get a free component, there's a gain more components while disassembling perk, reduce cost by 30%, reduce upgrade cost by 20%, grants 20% to craft an item for free, grants 10% of free upgrade, reduce upgrade costs, chance to acquire free component while upgrading and there's still perk progression rewards every other level that adds the percentage in this. So then they better destroy this whole damn tree.
No kidding, right? I'm getting punished for reading the skill trees and seeing "Woah, that seems broken! Lets play with it!"
I really, really wanna go to bat for CDPR. I'm loving every second of this game. But jesus is it hard to.
Man this company disappoint me more and more every day.
To this day I am still playing on same original Skyrim save file and Fallout 4 that I have since I started playing those games, I have 1500 hours on each of those games. Crafted and collected tons of items.
Maybe you should reach out to other companies and ask for support if you do not know how, instead of giving us stupid answers like that.
What kind of company release an open world game with this kind of configuration in mind?
Most of the people who are buying this kind of game craft items, and collect legendary that is part of the fun, now we are been told just play the story and start again.
You guys officially are put on my blacklist, you have lied to your customers, lied to XBOX and Sony.
The answer given by the moderator and tech support are unacceptable and they should be ashamed.
Seriously you guys should consider pulling the game out of all the platforms and go back to beta.
For AAA game at $80 the sate of the game is abysmal.
We gamers understand that video games are not perfect at releases and will required patches, but this kind of bugs are just gaming breaking and should have been fix during beta.
Between the content that were advertised and that are not in the game and the bugs are discover every day that are game breaking and the stupid answer that we are receiving from your company I think your fans and loyal customers have enough.
Like my dad use to say it will take a life time to build your reputation and one mistake to completely destroy it.
This bug is priority.
To this day I am still playing on same original Skyrim save file and Fallout 4 that I have since I started playing those games, I have 1500 hours on each of those games. Crafted and collected tons of items.
Maybe you should reach out to other companies and ask for support if you do not know how, instead of giving us stupid answers like that.
What kind of company release an open world game with this kind of configuration in mind?
Most of the people who are buying this kind of game craft items, and collect legendary that is part of the fun, now we are been told just play the story and start again.
You guys officially are put on my blacklist, you have lied to your customers, lied to XBOX and Sony.
The answer given by the moderator and tech support are unacceptable and they should be ashamed.
Seriously you guys should consider pulling the game out of all the platforms and go back to beta.
For AAA game at $80 the sate of the game is abysmal.
We gamers understand that video games are not perfect at releases and will required patches, but this kind of bugs are just gaming breaking and should have been fix during beta.
Between the content that were advertised and that are not in the game and the bugs are discover every day that are game breaking and the stupid answer that we are receiving from your company I think your fans and loyal customers have enough.
Like my dad use to say it will take a life time to build your reputation and one mistake to completely destroy it.
This bug is priority.
Im loving this game and been following this thread since yesterday. Actually I have played more than 82 hours (Very Hard Mode) and my save file size is 5.12MB, after reading this thread I always have to be careful with grabbing to much stuff. I don't like playing like this being worried about my file getting corrupted. Please CD ProjektRed fix this fast, this is not a joke and it will affect every hardcore player of this game eventually.
I suspect its storing data it doesnt need or duplicates like you said. Many cases reported online of bodies killed remaining in the spot 30 hours later in the city. Ive experienced it myself. Ive got 35 hours, barely any crafting, but a lot of disassembly and my save is 3.5mb so far... Scared to really play more until they fix it.
They need to take this extremely seriously. I said it before, this has to be an all hands on deck priority zero issue. We need a statement from them its being worked on and an ETA ASAP!
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I just wish to say, the concern here for me seems to be, the official addressing of the issue with a 'might' increase save file size limits, from CDPR. I've been around since Witcher 1 making mods for the community, but I fully understand the agitation here. This issue needs to be addressed, not considered by the team. Where I'm coming from, with all respect.
Just a quick notification we're not hitting some karma level comeuppance for using crafting in it's broken state.
We're hitting a really big issue ahead of the curve.
Fact is, if you use crafting, sooner or later, you will reach a savegame bloat hardcap.
If you play without crafting, we don't know yet, but savegames do increase. So It's entirely possible that even without crafting you'll eventually just hit the 8mb limit by playing the game and enjoying your time in it.
The big question at this point becomes, when.
If played normally, it seems you wouldn't hit this hard limit until after the Main Story has been finished.
It seems possible to play 100% without hitting this too. But results are not in yet for that.
The really pointed question is, will the average player taking their time, hit this hard cap before they're done with the game.
If not, there'll be a large quantity of players who've sunked like 100+ hours into this game, that will be very upset they've lost their progression.
Aside from that, be aware that the game runs fine. It will just not load anymore. Meaning if you've hit the hard cap at the start of a session, you could play an entire day, erase all your loadable quicksaves, autosaves, and if you only save manually at the end of your session, you could easily lose 10+ hours of gameplay.
If they're particularly sticklers for space, they may even delete their old manual saves, and only have 1 or even worse, they may only rely on autosaves and quicksaves, and suddenly have lost their entire playthrough.
A set back like that is enough to make many even experienced players sigh out in defeat and walk away from the game forever.
It's important that this issue is resolved as soon as possible, one way or another. For now we've got workarounds. That can mitigate the issue.
Like I mentioned in a previous post.
Don't craft (it's the biggest source of bloat, non stackables bloat more than consumables)
Keep your inv managed, and don't stockpile materials.
Skipping time is pretty quick, so regularly when you're not doing anything specific, just skip a day and let store inventories reset if you've recently sold anything.
Disassembling seems to not add bloat (other than the component bloat, which is cured by selling the components)
Other than that, there is some natural bloat as you play the game.
Keep a close eye on what you do.
As for the increasing in save files. This'll be a patch job. It'd mean less likely that saves will break because they can write away all their data. That doesn't fix the issue but mitigates the corrupted saves by making loads unbearable long, but loadable.
This could eventually result in someone (from the modding community perhaps) making a tool that'll trim your savegame from the bloat.
A corrupted save is unsalvagable afterall. But a 1GB savegame may be trimmable back to 4mb or so if it's superfulous bloat.
We're hitting a really big issue ahead of the curve.
Fact is, if you use crafting, sooner or later, you will reach a savegame bloat hardcap.
If you play without crafting, we don't know yet, but savegames do increase. So It's entirely possible that even without crafting you'll eventually just hit the 8mb limit by playing the game and enjoying your time in it.
The big question at this point becomes, when.
If played normally, it seems you wouldn't hit this hard limit until after the Main Story has been finished.
It seems possible to play 100% without hitting this too. But results are not in yet for that.
The really pointed question is, will the average player taking their time, hit this hard cap before they're done with the game.
If not, there'll be a large quantity of players who've sunked like 100+ hours into this game, that will be very upset they've lost their progression.
Aside from that, be aware that the game runs fine. It will just not load anymore. Meaning if you've hit the hard cap at the start of a session, you could play an entire day, erase all your loadable quicksaves, autosaves, and if you only save manually at the end of your session, you could easily lose 10+ hours of gameplay.
If they're particularly sticklers for space, they may even delete their old manual saves, and only have 1 or even worse, they may only rely on autosaves and quicksaves, and suddenly have lost their entire playthrough.
A set back like that is enough to make many even experienced players sigh out in defeat and walk away from the game forever.
It's important that this issue is resolved as soon as possible, one way or another. For now we've got workarounds. That can mitigate the issue.
Like I mentioned in a previous post.
Don't craft (it's the biggest source of bloat, non stackables bloat more than consumables)
Keep your inv managed, and don't stockpile materials.
Skipping time is pretty quick, so regularly when you're not doing anything specific, just skip a day and let store inventories reset if you've recently sold anything.
Disassembling seems to not add bloat (other than the component bloat, which is cured by selling the components)
Other than that, there is some natural bloat as you play the game.
Keep a close eye on what you do.
As for the increasing in save files. This'll be a patch job. It'd mean less likely that saves will break because they can write away all their data. That doesn't fix the issue but mitigates the corrupted saves by making loads unbearable long, but loadable.
This could eventually result in someone (from the modding community perhaps) making a tool that'll trim your savegame from the bloat.
A corrupted save is unsalvagable afterall. But a 1GB savegame may be trimmable back to 4mb or so if it's superfulous bloat.
Oh definitely! Hopefully CDPR will have a solution soon (probably after the Holiday at least). It may not fix currently corrupted saves, but I agree a long term solution is needed.
Tried a couple of other things with no real results yet;
- Added the ini changes to the already existing ini 'gameservices.ini'. Seemed logical but no.
- Tried to use a TW3 save editor to see if they somewhat matched, but i'm getting too many errors to feel okay changing the code
- Currently installing TW3 to see if they've got any clues in the files. Probably not, but who knows.
- Added the ini changes to the already existing ini 'gameservices.ini'. Seemed logical but no.
- Tried to use a TW3 save editor to see if they somewhat matched, but i'm getting too many errors to feel okay changing the code
- Currently installing TW3 to see if they've got any clues in the files. Probably not, but who knows.
I am considering starting over. I am still early game, but I did all the sidequests in my area, every single one, and every single hustle until I leveled up crafting really high, and I've been breaking down every junk weapon I find, and crafting like a madman. I can make purple gear to wear which rocks all else after upgrading, I can make better upgrade parts from the junk I get even from the random star events of crime which I looted madly, and I know how this is going to end now after all that mass crafting..
increasing the size of the save won't solve the issue from coming back, it's the way data is stored into the save that has an issue, you already have a black screen before every loading since 5.5 mb, that's for me a concern too, if the double the size, what would you do when you'll reach this new limit... there's something going on, maybe it's a perk, like the auto dismantle perk. let's just give them information and let them do their work and fix this when they can...